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
This baby never would have made such a confession of ignorance, you may depend.
From Not Pretty, but Precious by De Forest, J. W. (John William)
Huxley said he did not know, which was equivalent to the dogmatic assertion that he did; Gladstone said he did know, which was a confession of ignorance denser than that of agnosticism.
From Two Thousand Miles on an Automobile Being a Desultory Narrative of a Trip Through New England, New York, Canada, and the West, By "Chauffeur" by Eddy, Arthur Jerome
A brave confession of ignorance is often more truly reverent than knowing too many things which are not so.
From Modern Religious Cults and Movements by Atkins, Gaius Glenn
