confession of ignorance

Agents, increasingly, find that their inquiries are being met with a confession of ignorance.

While we have no reason to dispute Kennedy’s confession of ignorance about the nation’s security, we do know a great deal more than he lets on.

I also knew that universities did not reward ignorance, or the confession of ignorance, and so I kept my ignorance to myself and pretended that I knew what I was doing.

But despite this confession of ignorance, asserted with dogged persistence by an expert, no one paid any heed, and from that time to this, we hear authoritative pronouncements by those who think they have deduced life on Mars, and by those who think they have excluded it.

Stop an American on the street and ask them what they think of Scottish independence, and you will likely be greeted with a smiling confession of ignorance, before dislodging a general statement of support, along the lines of “Freedom! Good!”