WISDOM

We chase phantoms half the days of our lives. It is well if we learn wisdom even then, and save the other half.
- Letter to Orion Clemens, 2/21/1868

A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be led by the nose.
- Mark Twain's Notebook

It is wiser to find out than suppose.
- More Maxims of Mark, Johnson, 1927

Behold the fool saith, "Put not all thine eggs in the one basket"--which is but a manner of saying, "Scatter your money and your attention;" but the wise man saith, "Put all your eggs in the one basket and-WATCH THAT BASKET."
- Pudd'nHead Wilson