“It’s very difficult to dispel ignorance if you retain arrogance.”
(Sam Wilson, in Ken Burns’ ‘The Vietnam War’)
I think this applies both to the effort to dispel another’s ignorance, as well as to thinking your own can be corrected.
(Sam Wilson, in Ken Burns’ ‘The Vietnam War’)
I think this applies both to the effort to dispel another’s ignorance, as well as to thinking your own can be corrected.
A Hansen Chronicle 
Yes, I agree. How can I get beyond my own ignorance if I think I know already everything that is important. Arrogance may be an effort to conceal one’s own ignorance, which I take to mean limiting beliefs. And how can I help someone expand beyond theirs, if I have not done so with mine.
Thanks for commenting, Thom. Yes, it takes a certain amount of self-awareness / humility to recognize one’s own limits of knowledge. One definition of arrogance is not even leaving room for the possibility of being uninformed or incorrect or unconsciously biased.