We never know all the facts and the more we're mindful of how we deal with people, the more opportunity we have to evolve.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
We are born knowing nothing and with much striving we learn but a little; yet all the while we are bound by laws that hearken to no plea of ignorance, and measure out their rewards and punishments with calm indifference.
You learn that the interest is in what you don't yet know and that theories evolve. But we nonetheless have progress and improved knowledge over time.
Of our relation to all creation we can never know anything whatsoever. All is immensity and chaos. But, since all this knowledge of our limitations cannot possibly be of any value to us, it is better to ignore it in our daily conduct of life.
To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.
The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.
We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
Truth is, I'll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to know about me. Humans are by nature too complicated to be understood fully. So, we can choose either to approach our fellow human beings with suspicion or to approach them with an open mind, a dash of optimism and a great deal of candour.
It is paradoxical, yet true, to say, that the more we know, the more ignorant we become in the absolute sense, for it is only through enlightenment that we become conscious of our limitations. Precisely one of the most gratifying results of intellectual evolution is the continuous opening up of new and greater prospects.
We now have a whole culture based on the assumption that people know nothing and so anything can be said to them.