The uninitiated are the most rigid and doctrinaire, the most unyielding in their strictures, practices, beliefs, habits, expectations, etc. Barring the occasional bout of beginner's luck, the seeker of wisdom paradoxically arrives at the gate with every answer already known, every problem already neatly solved and packed away. They often seek not so much to learn what might be true, but merely to confirm what a person already believes. It turns out, perhaps, that having a "beginner's mind" is a lot trickier than they anticipated.  

The most adept, on the other hand, are almost by definition an unholy mess. Uneven corners abut unexpected diversions into intricacy piled on top of intricacy spilling out at odd angles amid the most lurid juxtapositions, fantastic propositions, implications, possibilities, etc. Aware of every nuance or potential complication that may arise to upset the pattern, thereby possessing some of the least settled opinions on almost any matter, the truly learned can appear slovenly, sometimes even to the point of immorality, to observers casual and otherwise, sympathetic and unsympathetic, similar or distinct, real or imagined, etc.