Michel De MontaigneLearned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.
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We can only be wise with wisdom of our own. If we don't learn from others we're doomed to fail. We can only be wise with wisdom of our own. We're not going to learn the things we need to know from people who weren't smart enough to learn them first.
Source: The Complete Essays
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