“Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it.”
No single person possesses all wisdom; it is a vast, shared treasure too large for any one person to hold alone.
— Traditional Benin Wisdom, Benin
Source: Traditional Akan-Ewe proverb, shared Benin-Ghana-Togo heritage, public-domain oral tradition (recorded as African Proverb of the Month, Jul. 1998, African Proverbs Working Group, Tangaza University)
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