271．不管从事任何工作，如果你所知不多，就走最安全的路线

不管从事任何工作，如果你所知不多，就走最安全的路线。你这么做，即便不被人称为机灵，也会被人认为是稳妥。另一方面，只有经过良好训练的人，方可随心所欲地勇往直前。如果无知而去冒险，和自毁没有两样。在这种情况下，一定要站在正确的一边，因为事已至此，就无法改变。所知不多的人，要走稳当的大道。处理任何事，不管懂与不懂，稳妥行事总比独树一帜更加明智。

271．In every occupation if you know little stick to the safest path

In every occupation if you know little stick to the safest. If you are not respected as subtle, you will be regarded as sure. On the other hand, a man well trained can plunge in and act as he pleases. To know little and yet seek danger is nothing else than to seek ruin. In such a case take stand on the right hand, for what is done cannot be undone. Let little knowledge keep to the king's highway, and in every case, knowing or unknowing, security is shrewder than singularity.