“ A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books. ”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see. 
The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing. 
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. 
If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.