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  1. Hermann Hesse _ Siddhartha

    Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else ... Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.
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  2. Ian Fleming _ Moonraker

    Each dark conjecture came and for a moment settled like a vulture on Bond's shoulder and croaked into his ear that he had been a blind fool.
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  3. Jeffery Deaver _ The Bodies Left Behind

    She was reflecting back on a truth she had learned over the years: that people heard what they wanted to hear, saw what they wanted, believed what they wanted."
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  4. Tom Robbins _ Jitterbug Perfume

    Those who possess wisdom cannot just ladle it out to every wantwit and jackanapes who comes along and asks for it. A person must be prepared to receive wisdom, or else it will do him more harm than good. Moreover, a lout thrashing about in the clear waters of wisdom will dirty those waters for everyone else.
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  5. Samuel Beckett _ Molloy

    For in me there have always been two fools, among others, one asking nothing better than to stay where he is and the other imagining that life might be slightly less horrible a little further on. So that I was never disappointed, so to speak, whatever I did, in this domain. And these inseparable fools I indulged turn about, that they might understand their foolishness.
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  6. Tahir Shah _ In Search of King Solomon's

    None of them seemed to mind sliding around in the faeces and choking in the smoke. They were determined not to miss the opportunity of watching a foreigner make a fool of himself.
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  7. Milan Kundera _ The Book of Laughter and

    The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.
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