In general we are least aware of what our minds do best.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about.
In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.
The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.
The remarkable position in which we find ourselves is that we don't actually know what we actually know.
The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.
Most of the things we decide are not what we know to be the best. We say yes, merely because we are driven into a corner and must say something.
We must make up our minds to be ignorant of much, if we would know anything.
To know ourselves, is agreed by all to be the most useful Learning; the first Lessons, therefore, given us ought to be on that Subject.
We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.
Isn't it strange that we talk least about the things we think about most?
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