Life is made up of a series of judgments on insufficient data, and if we waited to run down all our doubts, it would flow past us.
Learned Hand
Life is made up of a series of judgments
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Would that Judge Hand had followed this advice more often, and simultaneously known the difference between {not knowing everything} and {not knowing enough}. It would have been too much for Judge Hand to understand Dunning-Kruger — that was first explicated in the literature half a century after Judge Hand’s most famous overconfident screwups.