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For this, indeed, is the main source of our ignorance—the fact that our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.
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The quote says that human knowledge always has limits, while there will always be far more that we do not know. That imbalance is described as a main source of ignorance: we cannot know everything, and the boundary of the unknown has no final end.
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