New Delhi, July 8 -- "The more we study, the more we discover our ignorance." - Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley did not write this line as an excuse to stop learning. The English Romantic poet wrote it as someone who had read enormously, thought deeply, and arrived at a conclusion that most people spend their lives avoiding.

The sentence is not pessimistic. It is precise. It describes what genuine intellectual engagement actually feels like from the inside. And it feels nothing like the confidence that knowledge is supposed to deliver.

The quote describes a paradox that every serious learner eventually encounters. The more you know, the larger the territory of what you do not know becomes visible to you. Ignorance does not sh...