If the shoe fits you're lucky.
Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.
Failure is success if we learn from it.
Looking the part helps get the chance to fill it. But if you fill the part, it matters not if you look it.
The dumbest people I know are those who know it all.
The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.