Knowing what Thou knowest not Is in a sense Omniscience. - Piet Hein

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Knowing what
Thou knowest not
Is in a sense
Omniscience.

Piet Hein

omniscience

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About Piet Hein

Piet Hein (16 December 1905 – 18 April 1996) was a Danish mathematician, scientist, inventor, and poet. He often wrote using the pseudonym Kumbel (Old Norse for "tombstone").

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Alternative Names: Kumbel

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As eternity is reckoned there's a lifetime in a second.

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A lifetime
is more
than
sufficiently long
for people to get what there is of it
wrong.

WHO IS LEARNED? A definition

One who, consuming midnight oil
in studies diligent and slow,
teaches himself, with painful toil,
the things that other people know.

Knowing what Thou knowest not Is in a sense Omniscience. - Piet Hein

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