Here’s a collection of quotes that have stuck in my mind on the subject of living with limited knowledge.
Tiger got to hunt
Bird got to fly;
Man got to sit and wonder, “Why why why?”
Tiger got to sleep
Bird got to land
Man got to tell himself he understand.
–Kurt Vonnegut, “Cats Cradle”
They say you fly or you die.
–Protagonist “Oscar” in the movie “Enter the Void”
Ah, my friends from the prison, they ask unto me
“How good, how good does it feel to be free?”
And I answer them most mysteriously
“Are birds free from the chains of the skyway?”
–Bob Dylan, “Ballad in Plain D”
O remember that we are all imperfect. We see but in part; we know but in part.
–James Wilson, “Peace: A Sermon” 1788
(The opening line of the movie “Thunderbolt and Lightfoot”)