{"id":2900,"date":"2012-04-18T07:41:36","date_gmt":"2012-04-18T14:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/?p=2900"},"modified":"2012-04-18T07:41:36","modified_gmt":"2012-04-18T14:41:36","slug":"the-more-i-know-the-more-i-know-i-dont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/2012\/04\/18\/the-more-i-know-the-more-i-know-i-dont\/","title":{"rendered":"The More I Know the More I Know I Don’t"},"content":{"rendered":"
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One of the wise things a wise person knows about himself is he could be wrong.<\/p>\n

I suppose it’s a good thing for keeping one humble. A truly wise person generally is humble.<\/p>\n

The capacity for my non-knowledge of things is almost limitless. And it’s not just me. Look at what our Ecclesiastical brother says:<\/p>\n

No one can comprehend what goes on under the sun. Despite all his efforts to search it out, man cannot discover its meaning. Even if a wise man claims he knows, he cannot really comprehend it.*<\/strong><\/p>\n

The things I’m so sure about that I’d die defending are few. And those I hold by faith. Anything else I’m likely to vacillate on, soften my opinions, see from another perspective, or just say, \u201cI don’t know.\u201d<\/p>\n

That’s not everything. Like I said, there are a few \u201carticles of faith\u201d that if I did not hold I might as well not be here. But there’s a universe else that is at best “considered speculation.”<\/p>\n

It wasn’t always that way. I used to know a lot more.<\/p>\n

But life kept revealing more of itself. At this rate, by the time I’m ready to go, I’ll know almost nothing.<\/p>\n

Except where I’m going.<\/p>\n

It’s an odd kind of consolation but, in the end, that’s all that matters.<\/p>\n

It’s wise to get at least that one right.<\/p>\n

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*Ecc. 8:17 NIV (see also Ecc. 7:23,24)<\/p>\n

Next: The Beauty of Wisdom.<\/em> Coming Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the wise things a wise person knows about himself is he could be wrong. The longer I live, the more sure I am of that . . . except in the most important things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2900"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2900"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3088,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2900\/revisions\/3088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}