The Moral Vision
Talking Tall
~ 127 ~
How ignorant people can be of established facts,
and yet how keenly they feel the urge to expound
their views as if there were nothing in the world
that they did not know.
Before holding forth on a subject, one should make
a thorough study of it, for opinions based on
inadequate research are bound to mislead the
unwary. Empty utterances may impress the ill-
informed, but to the knowledgeable, intelligent
listener, they are simply a proclamation of the
speaker’s ignorance.
Sadly it is often the greatest if ignoramuses who
make the weightiest of pronouncements (111:18).
