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Knowledge is not the same as wisdom. You can know all the facts and still not be able to act wisely. But without knowledge, it is harder to be wise __ even if what wisdom tells us is that knowledge is very often provisional and that we cannot wait to have certainty about every fact before we act.
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Knowledge is not the same as wisdom. You can know all the facts and still not be able to act wisely. But without knowledge, it is harder to be wise __ even if what wisdom tells us is that knowledge is very often provisional and that we cannot wait to have certainty about every fact before we act.
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