Classic Riddles · Billy-B

Riddle #6

From Billy-B's legendary 1001 Puzzle Collection — preserved on Puzz.com since 1998.

Puzzle #6
Though I exist alone, there are often many of us interconnected like the threads of a web. If I am worn, there is an expression that indicates you should not leave me. A man with a name meaning something like 'knowledgeable one' once said that I was number four of a certain set, & had less than ten folds. What am I?
Reveal Answer
path (the fourth of Buddha's Four Noble Truths was the Eightfold Path)

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