Étiquette : Knowledge
Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.
Warren Buffet
L’ignorance engendre plus souvent la confiance que ne le fait la connaissance.
Charles Darwin
Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that « my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge. »
Isaac Asimov
It’s impossible to learn that which you think you already know.
Epictetus
People who are “unconsciously incompetent” don’t know they’re incompetent—they know so little about the subject that they can’t fully appreciate how little they actually know. That’s why every barber and taxi driver you meet is an expert on the economy and international politics.
Josh, Kaufman – The Personal MBA
Being humble, here, means being aware of how difficult your instincts can make it to get the facts right. It means being realistic about the extent of your knowledge. It means being happy to say “I don’t know.” It also means, when you do have an opinion, being prepared to change it when you discover new facts. It is quite relaxing being humble, because it means you can stop feeling pressured to have a view about everything, and stop feeling you must be ready to defend your views all the time.
Hans Rosling. « Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think. »
Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.
LAO ZI, The Way of Lao Zi
Nearly everything you know is secondhand: things you know only because someone told you.
Mindwise: How We Understand What Others Think, Believe, Feel, and Want – Nicholas Epley