Jean Giraudoux Quotes

Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.

Jean Giraudoux

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• Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.

  

  Jean Giraudoux
  • Education
  • Hand
  • Wisdom