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“We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.”

“Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.”

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Book:Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack

Source: Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack

“A true teacher does not terrorize ignorant students, because a true teacher knows that it is his job to cure ignorance.”

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Author:Miriam Defensor Santiago

“I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.”

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Author:Galileo Galilei

“Learn to live, and live to learn, Ignorance like a fire doth burn, Little tasks make large return.”

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Author:Bayard Taylor

“Now, there are two ways to approach a subject that frightens you and makes you feel stupid: you can embrace it with humility and an open mind, or you can ridicule it mercilessly.”

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Book:Light Elements: Essays in Science from Gravity to Levity

Source: Light Elements: Essays in Science from Gravity to Levity

“A learned parson, rusting in his cell at Oxford or Cambridge, will reason admirably well upon the nature of man; will profoundly analyze the head, the heart, the reason, the will, the passions, the senses, the sentiments, and all those subdivisions of we know not what ; and yet, unfortunately, he knows nothing of man... He views man as he does colours in Sir Isaac Newton's prism, where only the capital ones are seen; but an experienced dyer knows all their various shades and gradations, together with the result of their several mixtures.”

“I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.”

Source: The Wit & Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Treasury of Quotations, Anecdotes, and Observations

“A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.”

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Author:Moliere

“The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.”

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Author:William Osler

“True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.”

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Author:Abigail Van Buren

“Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.”

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Author:Karl Popper

“They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.”

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Book:Equal Rites: (Discworld Novel 3)

Source: Equal Rites: (Discworld Novel 3)

“Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.”

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Author:Will Rogers

“He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.”

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Author:Voltaire

“Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.”

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Author:Kurt Vonnegut

“If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.”

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Author:Derek Bok

“We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.”

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Author:John Archibald Wheeler

“When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”

Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

“"Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before," Bokonon tells us. "He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way."”

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Author:Kurt Vonnegut

“Some are born with knowledge, some derive it from study, and some acquire it only after a painful realization of their ignorance. But the knowledge being possessed, it comes to the same thing. Some study with a natural ease, some from a desire for advantages, and some by strenuous effort. But the achievement being made, it comes to the same thing.”

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Author:Confucius

“Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon or star.”

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Author:Confucius

“We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. We travel to bring what little we can, in our ignorance and knowledge, to those parts of the globe whose riches are differently dispersed. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again- to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.”

“Education costs money. But then so does ignorance.”

“To inquisitive minds like yours and mine the reflection that the quantity of human knowledge bears no proportion to the quantity of human ignorance must be in one view rather pleasing, viz., that though we are to live forever we may be continually amused and delighted with learning something new.”

Source: Writings, Collected and Ed. with a Life and Introd

“The full area of ignorance is not mapped. We are at present only exploring the fringes.”

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Author:John Desmond Bernal

“Neglect of mathematics work injury to all knowledge, since he who is ignorant of it cannot know the other sciences or things of this world. And what is worst, those who are thus ignorant are unable to perceive their own ignorance, and so do not seek a remedy.”

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Author:Roger Bacon

“Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.”

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Book:Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study

Source: Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study

“The greatest wisdom often consist in ignorance.”

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Book:The Art of Worldly Wisdom

Source: The Art of Worldly Wisdom

“Each human being has the eternal duty of turning what is hard and brutal into a tender and subtle offering, what is crude into an object of refinement, what is ugly into a thing of beauty, confrontation into collaboration, ignorance into knowledge, hereby rediscovering the child's dream of a creative reality incessantly renewed by death, the servant of life, and by life the servant of love”

“Recognizing your own ignorance is the first step toward wisdom.”

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Author:Laurence Overmire

“I love to thik of my little children whom God has called to himself as away at school-at the best school in the universe, under the best teachers, learning the best things, in the best possible manner. O death! We thank thee for the light that thou wilt shed upon our ignorance.”

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Author:Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

“The greater the scientist, the more he is impressed with his ignorance of reality, and the more he realizes that his laws and labels, descriptions and definitions, are the products of his own thought. They help him to use the world for purposes of his own devising rather than understand and explain it.”

Source: Wisdom Of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety