Quotes from George Simmel

Nothing more can be attempted than to establish the beginning and the direction of an infinitely long road. The pretension of any systematic and definitive completeness would be, at least, a self-illusion. Perfection can here be obtained by the individual student only in the subjective sense that he communicates everything he has been able to see.

The educated person is one who knows how to find out what he does not know

A man is well educated when he knows where to find what he doesn't know.