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“Partial knowledge is more triumphant than complete knowledge; it takes things to be simpler than they are.”
- Source
- Human, All-Too-Human
- Date
- 1909
- English wording
- Helen Zimmern — Translator · from German
Meaning of “Partial knowledge is more triumphant than complete knowledge;…”
The warning is that simplified partial explanations can spread more easily precisely because they remove the complications that fuller understanding would have to preserve.
Where does it come from?
Human, All-Too-Human, Part I, aphorism 578, “Partial Knowledge”; Helen Zimmern translation; sentence shortened before the final clause about popularity and persuasion.
