Quotes and Notes from Daily Life

11 March, 2012

Andrée Tabouret-Keller talks about "la colonisation de l'ignorance". When we find an area that we don't understand, we colonize it with knowledge. But sometimes that knowledge is just a mask to cover how much we still don't know. It needs to be peeled away so that we can see all the things we still have to learn. This is what I'm pondering today...

19 December, 2011

'Martyn suggests that "it would be a valuable practice for the historian to rise each morning saying to himself three times slowly and with emphasis, 'I do not know'"(Gospel of John, 92)' ~ quoted by John Ashton in Understanding the Fourth Gospel.