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It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance. |
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Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.- Confucius
Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
I shall suggest, on the contrary, that all communication relies, to a noticeable extent on evoking knowledge that we cannot tell, and that all our knowledge of mental processes, like feelings or conscious intellectual activities, is based on a knowledge which we cannot tell.
It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.
Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
