APAD: A little knowledge is a dangerous thing

Meaning: Incomplete knowledge of a subject can be more dangerous than no knowledge.

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Complete knowledge, however, takes time and may come too late. It may take more

than one lifetime. Ancient wisdom passed down unquestioned, e.g., the

TaoTeChing, seem to have a point.

 

Moreover, perfect knowledge should be more about enaction than comprehension.

 

Einstein said that compound interest is the 8th wonder of the world, I heard in

college and was not impressed. I knew the math, after all. Many years later and

up to my neck in the American consumer dream (read the rat-race), I chanced upon

the second half of the quote: "he who understands it, earns it; he who doesn't

pays it." Sure enough, I had been happily keeping my nose to the grindstone

paying mortgage interests.