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There is a false modesty, which is vanity; a false glory, which is levity; a false grandeur, which is meanness; a false virtue, which is hypocrisy, and a false wisdom, which is prudery. -- Jean de la Bruyere
I hear from afar the shouts of that false wisdom which is ever dragging us onwards, counting the present as nothing, and pursuing without pause a future which flies as we pursue, that false wisdom which removes us from our place and never brings us to any other. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy. -- George Santayana
True wisdom is plenty of experience, observation, and reflection. False wisdom is plenty of ignorance, arrogance, and impudence. -- Josh Billings
The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false; the second, to know that which is true. -- Lactantius
Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents. -- Khalil Gibran
I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge. -- Igor Stravinsky
Vain wisdom all, and false philosophy. -- John Milton
The first point of wisdom is to. discern what is false; the second, to know what is true. -- Lactantius
What men call knowledge, is the reasoned acceptance of false appearances. Wisdom looks behind the veil and sees. -- Sri Aurobindo
True wisdom, laboring to expound, heareth others readily; False wisdom, sturdy to deny, closeth up her mind to argument. -- Martin Farquhar Tupper
There is a courageous wisdom; there is also a false, reptile prudence, the result not of caution but of fear. -- Edmund Burke
All false art, all vain wisdom, lasts its time but finally destroys itself, and its highest culture is also the epoch of its decay. -- Immanuel Kant
It is wisdom to recognize necessity when all other courses have been weighed, though as folly it may appear to those who cling to false hope. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
And let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once! And let that wisdom be false to us that brought no laughter with it! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Exploding many things under the name of trifles is a very false proof either of wisdom or magnanimity, and a great check to virtuous actions with regard to fame. -- Jonathan Swift

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