The pool of knowledge is limited; it’s the pool of ignorance, speculation and misunderstanding that is infinite.
[…]But one thing that happens when we acquire too much “knowledge” is that, like Othello, we sometimes fail to distinguish it from what can never be known, which may not be untrue. Another is that we’re tempted to lose sight of the distinction between those realms, like science and health, where the more data we have, the better, and others, like human relations, where the opposite may be true.
[…]Wisdom sometimes depends on seeing how much knowledge doesn’t know and how much every day is shaped by unexpectedness.
[…]It’s precisely in matters of highest importance — love, terror, is there a God, and why is Iago possessed by the Devil? — that we’re outside the domain of knowledge.
Source: The New York Times (December 31, 2016)
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