On Political Wisdom

"Politicians depend on good guesswork, not on understanding, in steering the state on the right course. They are just like soothsayers and prophets, who say much that is true, but understand nothing of what they are saying."

—Plato, lived 427 BC-347 BC, as quoted in A Cabinet of Greek Curiosities: Strange Tales and Surprising Facts from the Cradle of Western Civilization, by J.C. McKeown