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  • A man’s ignorance sometimes is not only useful, but beautiful - while his knowledge, so called, is oftentimes worse than useless, besides being ugly. Which is the best man to deal with - he who knows nothing about a subject, and, what is extremely rare, knows that he knows nothing, or he who really knows something about it, but thinks that he knows all?

    Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Excursions and Poems: The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume V (of 20)”, p.147, Prabhat Prakashan