… is from page 334 of Thomas Sowell’s 2010 collection, Dismantling America:
We all enter the world knowing nothing but, by the time we are teenagers, we know it all. Sometimes it is decades later before we know enough to realize how little we know.
DBx: Unfortunately, many people live long lives without ever coming to realize how little they know. Among the many mistakes these people’s benightedness causes them to make is to assume that reality is as simple as what they observe with their eyes, or find in statistics.
