"He is the best of all who thinks for himself in all things. He, too, is good who takes advice from a wiser (person). But he who neither thinks for himself, nor lays to heart another's wisdom, this is a useless man.’"
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Quoted by Aristotle, in The Ethics Of Aristotle Vol. I, (Bk. 1, Chapter II)
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