What blinds us, or what makes historical progress very difficult, is our lack of awareness of our ignorance.

  • -- Terence McKenna 麦凯南

是什么蒙蔽了我们,或者是什么使历史进步变得非常困难,是我们对自己的无知缺乏认识。

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In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better.

从某种意义上说,词语是无知的百科全书,因为它们在历史的某个时刻冻结了人们的感知,然后坚持认为我们应该做得更好的时候继续使用这些冻结的感知。

We must always tell what we see. Above all, and this is more difficult, we must always see what we see.

我们一定要把我们看到的说出来。最重要的是,这更困难,我们必须看到我们看到的。

It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.

衡量非绩效比衡量绩效困难得多。

Where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise.

无知是福,聪明是愚。