I asked a Hong Kong Chinese friend if she spoke French:
“Yes!“, she replied “Louis Vuitton, Hermes, and croissant“
and “so how’s your Irish?” I ask
“Heineken” she replies.
As Confucius put it:
“Real knowedge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance”
知之为知之，不知为不知，是知也
(Zhīzhī wéi zhīzhī bùzhī wéi bùzhī shì zhīyě)
–Analects of Confucius (551 BC – 479 BC)
While gregarious Irishman Oscar Wilde declared:
“There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating; people who know absolutely everything,
and people who know absolutely nothing”
-Oscar Wilde, Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 – 1900)
