You fear them because you fear death, and rightly: for death is terrible and must be feared,' the mage said. . . 'And life is also a terrible thing,' Ged said, 'and must be feared and praised.
I have the advantage of having found out how hard it is to get to really know something. How careful you have to be about checking your experiments. How easy it is to make mistakes and fool yourself. I know what it means to know something.