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)
Now the hypnosis of the classic—that what we call intelligence is only an expression of inequilibrium; that when mental adjustments are made, intelligence ceases—or, of course, that intelligence is the confession of ignorance.
From The Book of the Damned by Fort, Charles
He took her silence for a confession of ignorance.
From The Divine Fire by Sinclair, May
