"What you don't know cannot hurt you."

This proverb was learnt by me when I was in school. Among the several idioms, figures of speech and other proverbs, I learnt this too. As a kid, you took the word of elders to be writings carved in stone. You do not question. Merely accept. Similarly for me...I never bothered to question. Not my teacher, but myself.
Did I agree with this? Did I have any experience to support the truth or rididule the proverb?

One of the wonders of growing up is that you start to be more sceptical. Things which would have sounded normal to a kid are met with "really?" from an adult. That is how it is with me right now. So I started thinking on the validity and relevance of this proverb in my life.

The proverb is partially true...If I don't know what I don't know, it is true it does not hurt. But my actions without this knowledge will hurt. Statistically put - there is nothing called truth, only an approximation of what is real and true at a particular moment in time. So when I learn something, depending on the severity and importance of that information, it hurts. But, my actions post that don't hurt - neither me / others.

For me the question is - what I don't know cannot hurt me, for how long? If truth will out...this proverb just delays the inevitable.
Reminds me something that Sanjay Dutt said post the 6 years RI verdict - at least, now I know....

Take care....and find out!
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