Knowledge And Self-Knowledge Poem by Shalom Freedman

KNOWLEDGE AND SELF-KNOWLEDGE

I know so much
And its really so little
And so much of what I know
Is not really knowledge
Half- knowledge and speculation
And outmoded information-

The world provides masses of material for learning each day
Even the smallest fraction of it
I do not know-

Once I would have felt it as a failure
My own massive ignorance
Now it is just what it necessarily is -

I know some things probably
Or at least I think I do
And all that I do not know
Does not need me to know it
In order for it to be learned by others-

I once thought I knew a lot
I now know I know very little
And will never know much-
However, I still am eager to learn
And want to know more
Even about myself-

And so- writing these lines now
May not be as useless as it may seem
Because I just learned something more about myself
That I really did not know before-