How much knowledge do you need to have before it feels OK to say you don’t know?
Seems like a paradox, doesn’t it?
If we know quite a bit about something, we probably have a good idea just how much we don’t know. And we have some authority.
If we don’t know that much, often it seems we need to state what we do know—to gain credibility, mostly.
So it can seem a wise thing when we don’t know.
That may mean we have quite a bit of knowledge.
…and are worth consulting.