Of Knowing and Learning

The more knowledge one gathers, the easier it should become to stand one’s ground. Yet on expert forums and panels the common answers are “We’re not sure” or “We don’t have great data on that.” There are more "maybe" and "possibly" answers than there are " yes' es" and "no' s." There is more of "I believe that... " than " I know that." It is often frustrating and appears pointless to the audience, that is discomforted by the shaky grounds.
On the other hand though, the more learned we are, the more unassuming we become. What we would prefer to see as black or white, we are now able to place into a spectrum with lots of grey shades in between. We stop denying our gaps in knowledge and embrace them. It excites us to imagine the possibilities, should these missing pieces of information come by. One piece of new information might change the way we know everything else as we know it today. The learned then aren’t just the people who know. They are also the ones that know they don’t.