“Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.”
By Alex P. Vidal
WE often hear this in debates and public fora.
President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. "knew too much," his fans cheered when he recently delivered his Sona.
Many politicians and sales executives are impressive because "they know too much."
But nobody knows too much. Nobody ever yet knew enough.
We cannot have too much knowledge, any more than we can have too much health.
What we really mean when we say a person knows too much is that he knows too little, and is too positive about it.
An ignorant man’s mind is just as full of ideas as a wise man’s mind. But his ideas are wrong.
There are just as many plants growing in his garden as in the wise man’s garden, but they are weeds.
Enemies to knowledge are egotism, sensitiveness and pride. These things keep us from being teachable.
They build a wall around us, so that knowledge cannot get in.
The surest way to get knowledge is not to advertise that we have it.
About the wisest man that ever lived was Socrates, and he was fond of saying of himself that he knew nothing at all.
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