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That's clever!!
It was a quote by the late Miles Kingston, humorist, satirist and writer for Punch magazine.
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Have you ever met anyone,who,believe they know it all on a certain subject,your answer to Mups,got me thinking,that is why I edited my post to her?
I have not. My field is industrial power electronics. I can claim, with reasonable confidence after 50 years in the field, that I do know quite a lot about it. All? Not remotely.
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I think knowledge is what you have learned -
Wisdom is what you do with that knowledge.


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(Wisdom is also knowing when to pipe down).
And knowing that you'll never be LTP.
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And knowing that you'll never be LTP.

I'll sort you out later, young man.

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I have not. My field is industrial power electronics. I can claim, with reasonable confidence after 50 years in the field, that I do know quite a lot about it. All? Not remotely.
Yes,I can tell you are very clever in your field,Besoker,


But your cleverness can be misenterprated as a know it all,to some!

Clever clogs!..
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Not if the title contains pony's or mosquito's
I've seen ponies and mosquitoes and I know they exist
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Proving a negative?

Could you give me an example?

How would you know that it was a negative?
Yes. Proving that the square root of 2 can't be expressed as a rational number. It is most often shown as a proof by contradiction by first assuming that it can be expressed as a fraction like a/b. A finite ratio.
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Proof, who the heck has ever got to grips with a spotty young clever dicks spiel.
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Yes,I can tell you are very clever in your field,Besoker,
Experienced would be a better way to put it I think.

Originally Posted by pauline3 ->
But your cleverness can be misenterprated as a know it all,to some!
I suppose that may be the case. I think I was in my thirties........
"the beginning of understanding is the acknowledgement of ignorance"
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Yes. Proving that the square root of 2 can't be expressed as a rational number. It is most often shown as a proof by contradiction by first assuming that it can be expressed as a fraction like a/b. A finite ratio.
That's a negative in your field of work,Besoker.

Lots of things out there that can't be proved.
 
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