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The distemper of knowledge

"To know, yet to know nothing, is the highest; not to know, yet to pretend to knowledge, is a distemper. Painful is this distemper; therefore we shun it. The wise man hath it not. Knowing it to be bound up with Sorrow, he putteth it away from him."

Author

Lao Tzu

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English

"To know, yet to know nothing, is the highest; not to know, yet to pretend to knowledge, is a distemper. Painful is this distemper; therefore we shun it. The wise man hath it not. Knowing it to be bound up with Sorrow, he putteth it away from him."

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