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“The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant: 'What good is it?”
“The greatest of all the accomplishments of 20th century science has been the discovery of human ignorance”
“His ignorance is encyclopedic.”
“I suspect that much of life is like that. We seldom see what is closest to our eyes.”
“I'm the Ted Bundy of string theory.”
“Whenever an occasion arose in which she needed an opinion on something in the wider world, she borrowed her husband's. If this had been all there was to her, she wouldn't have bothered anyone, but ...”
“It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.”
“I've demonstrated an impressive resilience in the face of valuable life lessons, and the main thing I seem to have learned from this one is that I am capable of learning nothing from almost any exp...”
“Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.”
“Naive keeps on dreaming of heaven on earth,ignoring the truth that even heavens are at war.”
“What are you doing in a fast lane, snail?”
“...not everyone is willing to defend a position of 'not knowing.' There is no virtue in ignorance for its own sake.”
“And where there is ignorance, there is also want of learning and instruction in essentials.”
“Yes, please leave us, the mere presence of beings like yourselves is intensely painful to us.”
“There is a secret earth gyrm, a place where the unbelievable, the unthinkable, the terrible, takes place every day. A place hidden by the veils of ignorance and cowardice and fear. On occasions we ...”
“He stared at his feet. Im still very ignorant, he said, but at least Im ignorant about really important things.”
“Martha said, "Do you have any idea of the kind of surprise your brothers are in for sooner or later? Or are you doing it on purpose?" Cord put his hat on and pulled it low, hiding his eyes. "Grown...”
“Consider this: when you stand at the entry to a steel factory, you can make out through the smoke some men, some metal, the fires. The furnaces roar, the hammers crash; and the metalworkers who for...”
“And in that moment, I felt my own ignorance spread suddenly out behind me like a pair of wings, and every single thing I didnt know was a feather on those wings. I could feel them tugging at the ai...”
“If those who know why and how neglect to act, those who do not know will act, and the world will continue to flounder.”
