“Wisdom is seeing something in a non-habitual manner.”
“Here was an occasion, she thought, for indulging in that deliberate rudeness which only persons with habitually good manners have the right to commit...”
“Wisdom, itself, is often an abstraction associated not with fact or reality but with the man who asserts it and the manner of its assertion.”
“Most non-readers are nothing but an agglomeration of third-hand opinion and blindly received wisdom. ”
“It is hard for fish to be aware of water. It is hard for us to notice something that's an ingrained pattern shaping our habitual thought.”
“The wisdom of the Moon is greater than the wisdom of the Earth, because the Moon sees the universe closer than the Earth can see it!”