"The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." ― William Blake Topic(s): Wisdom Tags: excess, leads More From William Blake "Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed." "He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars." "Opposition is true friendship." More In Wisdom "Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom."― George William Curtis "A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise."― John Henry Newman "A man may learn wisdom even from a foe."― Aristophanes