Spare a thought for the people of Lebanon

[Kid Berwyn]

21. Cervantes grokked before there was a word for it.

"El que lee mucho y anda mucho, ve mucho y sabe mucho."

"He who reads much and walks much, sees much and knows much."

(In the above transliteration, of course, "much" means various shades of lots, depending on how it's used.)



Here's one from Saint Augustine that is pretty direct:

"The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page."

And to your point, what General George S. Patton, Jr. was wont to tell his staff:

"If everybody is thinking alike, then nobody is doing any thinking."

...which is one big reason why Patton was so feared by the NAZIs.