To know that you don't know everything. How comforting is that? It just makes me feel so relieved when I realize that I'm allowed to have a lack of understanding. Admitting this to oneself is not only a relief, but it is also the greatest wisdom. This brings about an attitude of teachability (Lucy's dictionary). If we accept the fact that we don't know everything, it opens us up to all sorts of possibilities. It allows us to be wrong. It allows new thought to have a chance. It allows for correction and constructive criticism. Socrates was absolutely right in saying that he was more wise than all of them because he knew that he didn't know everything. By saying this, he was declaring that they were a close-minded people stuck in their ways. In order to learn and grow more, we must admit to ourselves that we lack complete understanding.
P.S. I commented on Rebekah's
To me it can be extremely discouraging to think that we don't know everything, and even ALL that we don't know. But how much more ENCOURAGING than that to remember that there is someone who knows everything and has it all under control. :)
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