Knowing and Not Knowing

Music: Fugue #8 from the Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2. By J.S. Bach. Sequenced by Yo Tomita.

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--What one knows is always less than what one doesn't know. --Therefore, one must place more importance on what one doesn't know than upon what one knows. --But how can one place importance on what one doesn't know? --First, and most tellingly, by being humble about what one knows. --Second, by being skeptical about what anyone else claims to know. --Third, by investing large amounts of one's time, energy, and resources into knowing more.