confession of ignorance
Example Sentences
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While we have no reason to dispute Kennedy’s confession of ignorance about the nation’s security, we do know a great deal more than he lets on.
From Washington Post • Nov. 25, 2019
I also knew that universities did not reward ignorance, or the confession of ignorance, and so I kept my ignorance to myself and pretended that I knew what I was doing.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2017
Roswell had called forth a confession of ignorance on a delicate point of finance.
From With Edge Tools by Chatfield-Taylor, H. C. (Hobart Chatfield)
"A confession of ignorance is a hell of a lot more revealing than a solid error," I snapped.
From The Trouble with Telstar by Schoenherr, John
They are the surrender of prepossessions, the abandonment of assumption, the confession of ignorance: the open eye and the humble heart.
From The Recreations of a Country Parson by Boyd, Andrew Kennedy Hutchison
