Too many summits but very little tranquil wisdom

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'Rarely do we arrive at the summit of truth without running into extremes; we have frequently to exhaust the part of error, and even of folly, before we work our way up to the noble goal of tranquil wisdom,' wrote Friedrich Schiller, the German poet, in the 1700s.

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