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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.”

“I am not sure that Christ would have been very satisfied to foresee that He would be looked upon principally as a redeemer and nailed forever upon the cross by human ignorance. It seems to me that He above all desired to bring men a message of truth, that He wanted to heal them of their faults by making an appeal to all their energy; He shook them as much as He could, He did not seek to spare them the trouble.”

Men Humans Has Beens Seems Would Be Wanted Energy Christ Forever Trouble Ignorance Messages Crosses Faults Heal Satisfied Appeals Not Sure Spares Redeemer

Book:The Very Rich Hours of Adrienne Monnier

Source: The Very Rich Hours of Adrienne Monnier

“Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.”

Source: Give War a Chance: Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice, and Alcohol-Free Beer

“The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.”

Humor Inspiration Funny Trouble Ignorance Fool Lightning Foolishness Humourous Fools And Foolishness Stupidity And Ignorance

Book:The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: A Penguin Enriched eBook Classic

Source: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: A Penguin Enriched eBook Classic

“Everybody gets told to write about what they know. The trouble with many of us is that at the earlier stages of life we think we know everything- or to put it more usefully, we are often unaware of the scope and structure of our ignorance.”

Thinking Knows Writing Trouble Stage Ignorance Structure Scope Stages Of Life

Book:Slow Learner

Source: Slow Learner

“It is only necessary to make war with five things; with the maladies of the body, the ignorances of the mind, with the passions of the body, with the seditions of the city and the discords of families.”

Mind War Body Passion Cities Five Trouble Ignorance Discord Malady

Author:Pythagoras

“Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.”

People Littles Would Be Trouble Mankind Ignorance Intellectual Labor Ignorant Acquire Aversion Supposing Supposing That

Book:Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales

Source: Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales

“The trouble with most folks isn't their ignorance. It's knowin' so many things that ain't so.”

Inspirational Wisdom Trouble Ignorance Folks

Author:Josh Billings

“...but then the general trouble with ignorance is always that the ignorant person has no idea that that's what they are. You can be ignorant and stupid and go through your whole life without ever encountering any evidence against the hypothesis that you're a genius.”

Persons Ideas Whole Trouble Stupid Ignorance Genius Evidence Whole Life Ignorant No Idea Hypothesis Ignorant Person

Author:Louis de Bernieres

“I wonder why it is that when I plan a route too carefully, it goes to pieces, whereas if I blunder along in blissful ignorance aimed in a fancied direction I get through with no trouble.”

Ifs Wonder Pieces Plans Trouble Ignorance Routes Blunders Blissful Ignorance

Book:Travels with Charley in Search of America

Source: Travels with Charley in Search of America

“To be born in imbecility, in the midst of pain and crisis; to be the plaything of ignorance, error, need, sickness, wickedness, and passions; to return step by step to imbecility, from the time of lisping to that of doting; to live among knaves and charlatans of all kinds; to die between one man who takes your pulse and another who troubles your head; never to know where you come from, why you come and where you are going! That is what is called the most important gift of our parents and nature. Life.”

“The trouble with most of us is that we know too much that ain't so.”

Knows Too Much Trouble Ignorance

Author:Mark Twain