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Benjamin Ide Wheeler on Knowledge

1854–1927 United States

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The rate at which your knowledge will ripen into wisdom depends in considerable part upon your distinguishing what is important and what is relatively unimportant. Some people seem never to know any difference between the footnotes and the headlines.

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