The Mark of a Good Thinker Is How Often They Say "I Don't Know"

Intellectual humility is one of the most underrated qualities. The best thinkers are comfortable with uncertainty — they don't feel the need to have an answer for everything. Pretending to know something you don't doesn't protect your reputation; it prevents you from learning. Every "I don't know" is an opening: it invites information, starts real conversations, and earns more respect than a confident-sounding guess ever could.