The Illusion of Knowing

The reason why you don't see yourselves is that you take what you know as fixed and final. You think you know. You are certain you know what is good and bad. It is not merely your vanity that makes you think you know, but also your ignorance. From the standpoint of Higher Man we are all ridiculous, just like monkeys.

When you come in touch with this Work, you should begin, if you feel the Work, to realize gradually that you do not know and that you need to unknow.

Maurice Nicoll, "Unknowing” in Psychological Commentaries on the Teaching of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky (Vol. 5, p. 1757)