“Only a silly sober fool could think it; imagine gloating over such nonsense (because in one sense the drinker learns wisdom, in the words of Goethe or Blake or whichever it was "the pathway to wisdom lies through excess")”
Jack Kerouac
Big Sur
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“...because in one sense the drinker learns wisdom, in the words of Goethe or Blake or whichever it was "The pathway to wisdom lies through excess”
Jack Kerouac
Big Sur
“The wise man through an excess of wisdom is made a fool.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“It is true that William Blake said that "The Road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom," but they didn't have angel dust back then.”
Cynthia Heimel
“Seek ye diligently and teach one another words of wisdom; yea, seek ye out of the best books words of wisdom; seek learning, even by study and also by faith.”
Joseph Smith Jr.
The Doctrine and Covenants, of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
“To a fool time brings only age not wisdom.”
Louis L'Amour