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• The great creative individual . . . is capable of more wisdom and virtue than collective man ever can be.
• The great creative individual . . . is capable of more wisdom and virtue than collective man ever can be.
  -- John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) English economist, philosophe...
• I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. -- Thomas Carlyle
• I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
  -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist, historia...
• A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.
  -- Herb Cae...
• MULTITUDE, n. A crowd; the source of political wisdom and virtue.
  In a republic, the object of the statesman's adoration....
• The study of the errors into which great minds have fallen in the pursuit of truth can never be uninstructive.
  . . No man is so wise but that he may learn some wisdom from his past errors, either of thought or action, and no society has made such advances as to be capable of no improvement from the retrospect of its past folly and credulity....
• And it does matter. An honest man or woman is an honest man or woman more because he or she is honest in the small
  everyday things that "don't matter" individually, but which make up a well-lived life, than because of some single great temptation that was passed....
• Many of us are more capable than some of us... but none of us is as capable as all of us!
  ! -- Ziggy (by Tom Wilson)...