[P]art of having a complicated mind was understanding its limits, understanding that it couldn't think of everything. Stupidity mistook itself for intelligence, whereas intelligence knew its own stupidity.

Jonathan Franzen
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In his book, "In Defense of Food", Michael Pollan wrote: "A complex mind is a limited mind. The more we know, the easier it is to overlook what we don't." In other words, complex minds are those that hold the most knowledge and understanding about a subject. In contrast, a limited mind is one that may be full of information but has little comprehension of the world because it doesn't have the capacity to understand it all.

Source: Purity

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