Tā gǎnkǎi dào: xìnxī bàozhà de shídài, gèng jué ér zhī yě wú yá.
He sighed: 'In an age of information overload, one feels all the more that knowledge is without limit.'
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From 《庄子·养生主》 ('The Secret of Caring for Life,' ~4th c. BCE), its opening warning: 吾生也有涯，而知也无涯。以有涯随无涯，殆已 (Our life has a limit, but knowledge is without limit. To use the finite to pursue the infinite is dangerous indeed). Zhuangzi's counterintuitive thesis: chasing all learning exhausts life itself - a critique often misread today as a simple pro-study slogan.
usage
Always quoted with the preceding 吾生也有涯 - the two clauses together. Modern use often drops Zhuangzi's 殆已 (dangerous) and flips the meaning into 'study without end,' which is precisely opposite to the original. 无涯 = 'without shore.'
