Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of a lack of wisdom. –

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Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of a lack of wisdom. –

-- Terry Pratchett

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I should have learned this, she thought. I wanted to learn fire, and pain, but I should have learned people.

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Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first and is waiting for it.

-- Terry Pratchett

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The merest accident of microgeography had meant that the first man to hear the voice of Om, and who gave Om his view of humans, was a shepherd and not a goatherd. They have quite different ways of looking at the world, and the whole of history might have been different. For sheep are stupid, and have to be driven. But goats are intelligent, and need to be led.

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One of the hardest lessons in young Sam's life had been finding out that the people in charge weren't in charge. It had been finding out that governments were not, on the whole, staffed by people who had a grip, and that plans were what people made instead of thinking.

-- Terry Pratchett

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