A cracked white eggshell releases a thin stream of golden light onto dark blue fabric beside a small magnifying glass.

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The Admirable Crichton

J.M. Barrie

I am not young enough to know everything.

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What it means

Our interpretation.

This is a witty take on confidence and age. The speaker says they're too old to claim knowing everything, since experience has taught them how much they don't know. Certainty, in this joke, belongs to youth.

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