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.
The entire Einstein quote was "Compound interest is the 8th wonder of the world.
he who understands it, earns it; he who doesn't pays it."
I only read the first sentence when I was in college and thought nothing of it.
Many years passed, I was lucky to read the 2nd sentence (online, I think) and
realized I was paying instead of earning interests.
It was ironic and used to illustrate the point "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.
The entire Einstein quote was "Compound interest is the 8th wonder of the world.
he who understands it, earns it; he who doesn't pays it."
I only read the first sentence when I was in college and thought nothing of it.
Many years passed, I was lucky to read the 2nd sentence (online, I think) and
realized I was paying instead of earning interests.
It was ironic and used to illustrate the point "A little knowledge is a
dangerous thing."