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Perhaps that is the only wisdom there really is, young Mage: that our choices matter.

— John G. Hemry The Dragons of Dorcastle (2015)

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I’m not one of those fools who think that by ignoring reality you can make it go away.

The Hidden Masters of Marandur (2015)

Our world is facing the problems it is because some people decided they were more special than other people.

The Servants of the Storm (2016)

Perhaps we can build a world where there is more wisdom and less suffering.

The Wrath of the Great Guilds (2016)

Maybe what this world needs is someone who won’t do whatever they think is necessary to make things be the way they want.

The Hidden Masters of Marandur (2015)

Doubt about your wisdom can be the clearest sign of wisdom.

The Servants of the Storm (2016)

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If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.

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'The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.'

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It takes extraordinary wisdom and self-control to accept that many things have a logic we do not understand that is smarter than our own.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010)

Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.

George Chapman All Fools (1605)

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