What you don’t know won’t hurt you. A dubious maxim: sometimes what you don’t know can hurt you very much.

Margaret Atwood
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Sometimes we don’t know what we don’t know. It can be a very bad thing to think we know something and not to know the truth. The more we believe we know something, the more we can get hurt when we don’t.

Source: The Blind Assassin

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