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“Few things are more irritating than when someone who is wrong is also very effective in making his point.”

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Author:Mark Twain

“On the whole, however, it is only out of pride or gross ignorance, or cowardice, that we refuse to see in the present the lineaments of times to come.”

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Author:Marguerite Yourcenar

“Speculators often prosper through ignorance; it is a cliché that in a roaring bull market knowledge is superfluous and experience is a handicap. But the typical experience of the speculator is one of temporary profit and ultimate loss”

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Author:Benjamin Graham

“Unfortunately, skill in evaluating the business prospects of a firm is not sufficient for successful stock trading, where the key question is whether the information about the firm is already incorporated in the price of the stock. Traders apparently lackthe skill to answer this crucial question, but they appear to be ignorant of their ignorance.”

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Book:Thinking, Fast and Slow

Source: Thinking, Fast and Slow

“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?”

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Author:Bill Ackman

“A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.”

Source: To Jerusalem and Back

“When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results.”

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Author:Warren Buffett

“Diversification is protection against ignorance. It makes little sense if you know what you are doing.”

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Author:Warren Buffett

“Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.”

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Book:Complete Essays: 1936-1938

Source: Complete Essays: 1936-1938