“Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.”
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No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.
In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory.
Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.
