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“In the stock market (as in much of life), the beginning of wisdom is admitting your ignorance. One of the many things you cannot know about stocks is exactly when they will up or go down. Over the long term, stocks generally rise at a nice pace. History shows they double in value every seven years or so. But in the short term, stocks are just plain wild. Over periods of days, weeks and months, no one has any idea what they will do. Still, nearly all investors think they are smart enough to divine such short-term movements. This hubris frequently gets them into trouble.”

“The bondage we are born into is the bondage we cannot see. Verily, freedom is little more than the ignorance of tyranny. Live long enough, and you will see: Men resent not the whip so much as the hand that wields it.”

Men Littles Long Enough Hands Born Ignorance Tyranny Bondage Whips Resent

Book:The White-Luck Warrior: Book Two

Source: The White-Luck Warrior: Book Two

“Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.”

Ifs Knows Enough Use Wisdom Wise Ignorance Remains Comprehension

Author:Isaac Asimov

“Curiosity takes ignorance seriously - and is confident enough to admit when it's in the dark. It is aware of not knowing. And then it sets out to do something about it.”

Enough Dark Knowing Ignorance Curiosity Not Knowing

Author:Alain de Botton

“More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars. Yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between Governments. The once powerful malignant Nazi state is crumbling; the Japanese warlords are receiving in their homelands the retribution for which they asked when they attacked Pearl Harbor. But the mere conquest of our enemies is not enough; we must go on to do all in our power to conquer the doubts and the fears, the ignorance and the greed, which made this horror possible.”

“Deep thinkers who look everywhere for the mysterious causes of poverty, ignorance, crime and war need look no further than their own mirrors. We are all born into this world poor and ignorant, and with thoroughly selfish and barbaric impulses. Those of us who turn out any other way do so largely through the efforts of others, who civilized us before we got big enough to do too much damage to the world or ourselves.”

Source: Compassion Versus Guilt and Other Essays

“There is little hope for us until we become tough-minded enough to break loose from the shackles of prejudice, half-truths, and down-right ignorance.”

Littles Enough Half Break Ignorance Tough Prejudice Shackles Half Truth

Book:Strength to Love

Source: Strength to Love

“As a result of overdiversification, their (active managers) returns get watered down. Diversification covers up ignorance. Active managers haven't done enough research into any of their companies. If managers have 200 positions, do you think they know what's going on at any one of those companies at this moment?”

Ifs Thinking Knows Done Enough Moments Results Company Havens Position Ignorance Return Research Investing Active Managers Cover Ups Diversification

Author:Bill Ackman

“Be ever questioning. Ignorance is not bliss. It is oblivion. You don't go to heaven if you die dumb. Become better informed. Lean from others' mistakes. You could not live long enough to make them all yourself.”

Ifs Long Enough Dies Heaven Mistake Ignorance Dumb Bliss Questioning Oblivion Ignorance Is Not Bliss

Author:Hyman Rickover

“It is not enough to be well-intentioned; one must strive to put those intentions into action in a capable way. One must consider the effect his actions will have on others. Looked at like this, to persist in ignorance is itself dishonorable”

Way Wells Enough Action Literature Effects Ignorance Capable Intention Strive Persist Dishonorable

Author:Andrew Cohen

“If we work for social change - and it is good to do such things - let us always do it with an awakened heart big enough for all. There is no enemy; there is only ignorance. There is no one to hate, only many to love.”

Ifs Heart Enough Bigs Hate Social Enemy Ignorance Social Change Awakened

Author:John Kehoe

“Neither do the ignorant love wisdom or desire to become wise; for this is the grievous thing about ignorance, that those who are neither good nor beautiful think they are good enough, and do not desire that which they do not think they are lacking.”

Thinking Enough Beautiful Desire Wise Ignorance Ignorant Good Enough Lacking Love Wisdom

Author:Plato

“I'm trying to make people more alert that mere acceptance isn't a good enough indicator that something is ethical. You actually need to stop and think. Acceptance on the basis of ignorance or deceit is not the same thing as the acceptance on the basis of ongoing vigorous democratic debate.”

People Thinking Trying Enough Acceptance Ignorance Democratic Debate Deceit Good Enough Ethical

Author:Sheila Jasanoff

“People grow up learning to be silent about their sexuality, so where are they going to learn to talk about it when they are in a relationship? Shame, guilt, ignorance, reservation, prudishness, all kinds of different cultural systems and social stereotypes shroud sexuality in secrecy and in silence. And there's the romantic notion. "If I say in the beginning, that I am missing something, you are instantly going to think that means you are not enough."”

People Thinking Kind Mean Different Enough Silence Growing Up Missing Ignorance Shame Guilt Silent Sexuality All Kinds Stereotype Secrecy

Author:Esther Perel

“Through neglect, ignorance, or inability, the new intellectual Borgias cram hairballs down our throats and refuse us the convulsion that could make us well. They have forgotten, if they ever knew, the ancient knowledge that only by being truly sick can one regain health. Even beasts know when it is good and proper to throw up. Teach me how to be sick then, in the right time and place, so that I may again walk in the fields and with the wise and smiling dogs know enough to chew sweet grass.”

Source: On stage: a chrestomathy of his plays

“Happy the man who lives long enough to acknowledge his ignorance”

Men Long Enough Ignorance Acknowledge Long Life

Author:Elizabeth Goudge

“I write for one and only one purpose, to overcome the invincible ignorance of the traduced heart. I wish to speak to and for those who have had enough of the Social Lie, the Economics of Mass Murder, the Sexual Hoax, and the Domestication of Conspicuous Consumption.”

Writing Heart Enough Lying Purpose Speak Wish Social Ignorance Mass Economics Overcoming Murder Consumption Invincible Had Enough Hoaxes Conspicuous Consumption

Author:Kenneth Rexroth

“As a means of dispensing formulated ignorance our boasted public school system is not without merit; it spreads out education sufficiently thin to give everyone enough to make him a more competent fool than he would have been without it.”

Giving Mean Has Beens Enough School Ignorance Fool Spread Merit Public School Competent School System

Book:A Cynic Looks at Life

Source: A Cynic Looks at Life

“One of those flash epiphanies of travel, the realization that worlds you'd love vibrantly exist outside your ignorance of them. The vitality of many lives you know nothing about. I could live in this town, so how is it that I've never been here before today?”

Knows World Giving Enough Today Ignorance Lucky Towns Blue Realization Flash Breeze Curtains Vitality Lifting Doorways Epiphany

Author:Frances Mayes

“I have heard of your paintings too, well enough; God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another: you jig, you amble, and you lisp, and nick-name God's creatures, and make your wantonness your ignorance. Go to, I'll no more on't; it hath made me mad.”

Wells Made Enough Faces Names Given Heard Ignorance Painting Creatures Mad Hamlet And Ophelia Hamlet Ophelia Lisp

Book:Making Sense of Hamlet! a Students Guide to Shakespeare's Play (Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling)

Source: Making Sense of Hamlet! a Students Guide to Shakespeare's Play (Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling)

“Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.”

Thinking Men Enough Young Time Wise Youth Ignorance Young Man Sober

Book:The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author

Source: The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author

“It is bad enough that people are dying of AIDS, but no one should die of ignorance.”

People Should Enough Dies Sex Dying Ignorance Aids Hiv Hiv Aids World Aids Day Aids Day

Author:Elizabeth Taylor

“Ignorance and arrogance are the artist's and entrepreneur's indispensable allies. She must be clueless enough to have no idea how difficult her enterprise is going to be and cocky enough to believe she can pull it off anyway."”

Believe Ideas Enough Artist Difficult Business Ignorance Entrepreneur No Idea Arrogance Enterprise Allies Indispensable Cocky Clueless

Author:Steven Pressfield

“Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. It is better to know - even if the knowledge endures only for the moment that comes before destruction - than to gain eternal life at the price of a dull and swinish lack of comprehension of a universe that swirls unseen before us in all its wonder. That was the choice of Achilles, and it is mine, too.”

“Maybe that is why young people make success. They don't know enough.”

People Knows Children Enough Young Ignorance

Book:The Quotable Feynman

Source: The Quotable Feynman

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