Jonathan Raymond Quotes
You can't know what you don't know. You can't know about things you have yet to discover.
press and public affairs officers
In Ancient Rome, just as today even in democracies, contemporary historians–journalists–are much dependent on government for access to the facts behind various events and sometimes even the existence of the events themselves. Even in America, the most free and open country in the world there are still events from decades ago the American government has maintained are still secret and classified.
This statement as with others like it offended the religious authorities of the time as they claimed that they—-The Bible---knew everything important just as fundamentalist Muslims claim today about the Koran. So statements of this kind were considered heresy by some and still are.
Jonathan Raymond is an American writer living in Portland, Oregon.