Quote by Ambrose Bierce

Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.

Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and

Summary

The quote suggests that knowledge is essentially limited and incomplete. It asserts that our understanding of the world mainly comes from organizing and categorizing the vast amount of ignorance, or what we do not yet know. In other words, knowledge is a subjective arrangement of beliefs that we construct in order to make sense of the unknown. This quote challenges the idea of absolute knowledge, highlighting the continuous expansion of ignorance that surrounds us.

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