"The extreme limit of wisdom, that’s what the public calls madness."
― Jean Cocteau
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Wisdom
― Jean Cocteau
More From Jean Cocteau
- "The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth."
- "We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don’t like?"
- "I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another."
More In Wisdom
- "The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions."― Oliver Wendell Holmes
- "Be there a will, and wisdom finds a way."― George Crabbe
- "The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good."― Pierre Charron