"Wisdom is better than gold"

There's a huge difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

We talk in fact-deficient, obfuscating generalities to cover up our lack of understanding.

“The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.  When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.” - George Orwell.