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TS Eliot Knew: Lots of Information Without Enough Knowledge

From 1920 (pre-internet):

The vast accumulations of knowledge—or at least of information—deposited by the nineteenth century have been responsible for an equally vast ignorance. When there is so much to be known, when there are so many fields of knowledge in which the same words are used with different meanings, when everyone knows a little about a great many things, it becomes increasingly difficult for anyone to know whether he knows what he is talking about or not. And when we do not know, or when we do not know enough, we tend always to substitute emotions for thoughts.

Here is the link to the story:

T. S. Eliot: The More You Know, The More You Don’t