Lahiri Mahasaya (1828–1895) Indian yogi and guru
Source: Autobiography of a Yogi (1946), Ch. 34 : Materializing a Palace in the Himalayas
“I am enormously wise and abysmally ignorant.”
My Heart's in the Highlands (1939)
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Rien n'est si dangereux qu'un ignorant ami;
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Book VIII (1678-1679), fable 10.
Fables (1668–1679)
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“There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant.”
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“From ignorance our comfort flows.
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To the Honorable Charles Montague (1692).
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Commonly attributed to Hume, but without any apparent basis.
Misattributed
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Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727)