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WISDOM KNOWING ITS IGNORANCE

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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 30, 1868

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 32, No. 2.

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WISDOM KNOWING ITS IGNORANCE

The celebrated Duval, librarian of Francis I, often answered questions by, “I don’t know.” An insolent man replied to him one day, “Why, sir, you ought to know; the Emperor pays you for your knowledge!” Duval answered, “The Emperor pays me for what I know; if he was to pay me for what I don’t know, all the treasures of his empire would not be sufficient.”