Friday, September 17, 2010

Knowingness

Alexander The Man Who KnowsThere are people for whom nothing is more embarrassing than to be caught not in the know. To arm themselves against embarrassment, they choose knowingness, which is just ignorance hidden by information.

-- Leon Wieseltier, Washington Diarist: In the Know, The New Republic: Books & Arts, 16 September 2010

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