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Knowledge is power but only wisdom is liberty.

Knowledge is power but only wisdom is liberty.

Will Durant
Wisdom, Knowledge, Understanding
Will Durant (1929). “The Mansions of Philosophy: A Survey of Human Life and Destiny”, Garden City, N.Y. : Garden City Publishing Company

When liberty destroys order the hunger for order will destroy liberty.

Will Durant
Wisdom, Order, Liberty

Science tells us how to heal and how to kill; it reduces our death rate in retail and then kills us wholesale in war; but only wisdom - desire coordinated in the light of all experience - can tell us when to heal and when to kill.

Will Durant
Wisdom, War, Light
Will Durant (1961). “Story of Philosophy”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

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