Henry David Thoreau quote: What is most of our boasted so-called knowledge but a conceit that we know something, which robs us of the ...

What is most of our boasted so-called knowledge but a conceit that we know something, which robs us of the advantage of our actual ignorance?

~ Henry David Thoreau ~

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