"Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom."
― Havelock Ellis
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Wisdom
― Havelock Ellis
More From Havelock Ellis
- "Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry."
- "‘Charm’ – which means the power to effect work without employing brute force – is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman’s strength just as strength is a man’s charm."
- "Education, whatever else it should or should not be, must be an inoculation against the poisons of life and an adequate equipment in knowledge and skill for meeting the chances of life."
More In Wisdom
- "I continue to believe, contrary to the given wisdom, that it’s more interesting to have an album – or, indeed, an individual song – which has variety rather than homogeneity."― Peter Hammill
- "It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories."― Georg C. Lichtenberg
- "True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing."― Socrates