Henry Adams quote about ignorance from The Education of Henry Adams - The less a tourist knows, the fewer mistakes he need make, for he will not expect himself to explain ignorance.
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The less a tourist knows, the fewer mistakes he need make, for he will not expect himself to explain ignorance.
 Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams (1906). copy citation

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“From the archaic ice-barrier to the Caspian Sea, a long line of division, permanent since ice and inertia first took possession, divided his lines of force, with no relation to climate or geography or soil.
The less a tourist knows, the fewer mistakes he need make, for he will not expect himself to explain ignorance. A century ago he carried letters and sought knowledge; to-day he knows that no one knows; he needs too much and ignorance is learning. He wandered south again, and came out at Kiel, Hamburg, Bremen, and Cologne.” source

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