Tuesday, November 20, 2012

ignorance



a man's ignorance sometimes is not only useful, but beautiful--while his knowledge, so called, is oftentimes worse than useless, besides being ugly. which is the best man to deal with--he who knows nothing about a subject, and, what is extremely rare, knows that he knows nothing, or he who really knows something about it, but thinks that he knows all?

3 comments:

Valerianna said...

Ahhh... that old question... Well, I bet as a teacher you share my enthusiasm for those who know something but who open wide for more and more.

steven said...

yup! it's an oldy but i met an old friend yesterday who reminded me of the space between book learning and living life learning . . . steven

Valerianna said...

an oldy but goodie.. :)