Today’s news reveals a world grappling with the distribution and accountability of power—some institutions suspending their own processes to reconsider fairness, others discovering that machines can diagnose illness more reliably than seasoned practitioners, still others wrestling with how authority ought to be exercised over the vulnerable. The impulse to decide and act alone runs through these stories like a thread, whether in the certainty of a single expert or the secrecy of a regime. The ancient proverb suggests something quieter: that wisdom resides not in the solitary confidence of the knowledgeable, but in the willingness to listen, to deliberate, to allow counsel to temper judgment. In a moment when expertise itself seems both celebrated and questioned, the verse invites us to consider whether the problem is expertise itself, or rather the loneliness of unbridled authority.