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Much learning does not teach insight.

posted 8 years ago by 00 (74)
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(22B40) Much learning [“polymathy”] does not teach insight. Other-wise it would have taught Hesiod and Pythagoras and moreover Xenophanes and Hecataeus.

(Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Philosophers 9.1)

[–] Strannger (2007) 8 years ago

I think in a way I feel you can adorn into but not see the higher picture and miss what the creator intended.