Man often acquires just so much knowledge as to discover his ignorance, and attains so much experience as to regret his follies, and then dies.


Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion (ed. 1843)


Man often acquires just so much knowledge as to discover his ignorance, and attains so much experience as to regret his follies, and then dies.

Man often acquires just so much knowledge as to discover his ignorance, and attains so much experience as to regret his follies, and then dies.

Man often acquires just so much knowledge as to discover his ignorance, and attains so much experience as to regret his follies, and then dies.

Man often acquires just so much knowledge as to discover his ignorance, and attains so much experience as to regret his follies, and then dies.