the more you know
the MORE yoo NOH
ðə mɔːr juː noʊListen
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knowledge breeds awareness of further ignorance; genuine learning reveals how much more remains to be understood; a paradox of intellectual growth in which acquiring knowledge simultaneously expands one's awareness of the extent of what is not yet known; associated in popular culture with American public service announcements, the phrase encapsulates a Socratic insight that wisdom begins with recognising the limits of one's own knowledge rather than in the confident possession of answers
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