“When we sin, we think we are geniuses; when we confess, we know we are idiots.”
Adrienne von Speyr (1902–1967) Swiss doctor and mystic
Source: Lumina and New Lumina (1969), p. 42
“We know less when we erroneously think we know than when we recognize that we don’t.”
Source: Men Explain Things to Me
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