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Naturally, I believe the first step to ansering this question is defining what wise means. To me, wise connotes experience and not accepting things at face value - meaning, not believing whatever is told you you. In society, we would call such a person a fool or gullible. This being my idea of what the word wise means, I would say that the knower is wiser than the believer. A believer, by definition, must support something without certainty of it - thus, they must accept something at face value, for they do not 'know' whether or not it truly is so. To know something means to explore all other alternatives and dismiss all, meanwhile what they "know" to be true cannot be discredited or disproven. It is wiser to srutinize all possibilities, and thus we know that whatever is left is our currently best explanation.
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