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“And this is the way a novel gets written, in ignorance, fear, sorrow, madness, and a kind of psychotic happiness as an incubator for the wonders being born.”

Way Kind Joy Born Wonder Novel Written Ignorance Sorrow Madness Psychotic

Book:Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac, 1947-1954

Source: Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac, 1947-1954

“Dreams ought to produce no conviction whatever on philosophical minds. If we consider how many dreams are dreamt every night, and how many events occur every day, we shall no longer wonder at those accidental coincidences which ignorance mistakes for verifications.”

Ifs Mind Dream Night Mistake Wonder Events Produce Ignorance Ought Philosophical Conviction Every Night Coincidence Verification

Book:Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

“The whole difference between a man of genius and other men, it has been said a thousand times, and most truly, is that the first remains in great part a child, seeing with the large eyes of children, in perpetual wonder, not conscious of much knowledge--conscious, rather of infinite ignorance, and yet infinite power; a fountain of eternal admiration, delight, and creative force within him meeting the ocean of visible and governable things around him.”

Source: The Stones of Venice

“The charm of Ronald Reagan is not just that he kept telling us screwy things, it was that he believed them all. No wonder we trusted him, he never lied to us. ... His stubbornness, even defiance, in the face of facts ('stupid things,' he once called them in a memorable slip) was nothing short of splendid. ... This is the man who proved that ignorance is no handicap to the presidency.”

Men Facts Faces Wonder Stupid Ignorance He Man Memorable Charm Slips Trusted Presidency Splendid Lied Defiance Stubbornness Stupid Things Handicaps Never Lie

Book:Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?

Source: Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?

“How long, I wonder, will ignorance spell purity and knowledge shame?”

Long Wonder Ignorance Shame Purity Spells

Book:The ballad and the source

Source: The ballad and the source

“Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy; research, the progress; ignorance, the end. There is, by heavens, a strong and generous kind of ignorance that yields nothing, for honour and courage, to knowledge: an ignorance to conceive which needs no less knowledge than to conceive knowledge.”

Needs Kind Ends Philosophy Strong Heaven Wonder Knowledge Progress Ignorance Research Philosophical Foundation Generous Yield Honour

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“For it is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize... They were pursuing science in order to know, and not for any utilitarian end.”

Thinking Knows Men Firsts Ends Order Wonder Knowledge Ignorance Philosophical Ignorant Utility Owing Puzzled Utilitarian

Author:Aristotle

“The ignorant man marvels at the exceptional; the wise man marvels at the common; the greatest wonder of all is the regularity of nature.”

Men Nature Common Wonder Wise Ignorance Ignorant Exceptional Regularity

Author:George Dana Boardman Pepper

“Though the familiar use of things about us take off our wonder, yet it cures not our ignorance.”

Use Wonder Ignorance Familiar Cures Familiarity

Book:An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding: In Four Books

Source: An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding: In Four Books