Knowledge and Ignorance
idea · 2 works · 2 mentions · 6 anchored passages
bring my birth to light · discovering the whole truth · full knowledge · ignorance · intelligence · know who you are · knowledge · revealed · seeing nothing, knowing nothing · understanding
in the texts
Oedipus Tyrannus
The movement from uncertain reports and ignorance to unbearable self-knowledge about birth, crime, and kinship.
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Economics
Practical understanding is generally accessible in husbandry and strategy, though command still varies with intelligence.
All know that it is right to post sentries by day and night before the camp;
The man gets no corn from his field because he takes no trouble to see that it is sown or manured.
It is not knowledge nor want of knowledge on the part of farmers that causes one to thrive while another is needy.