… is the epigraph that launches Chapter One of Albert Jay Nock’s 1943 autobiography, Memoirs of a Superfluous Man; the epigraph is a quotation from Amos Bronson Alcott:
To be ignorant of one’s ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
DBx: The world, alas, teems with ignorant people – teems with people ignorant of their own ignorance. A disproportionately large number of such ignorant people boast advanced degrees.
