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- Nov 07, 2020
Ignorance Quotes
On what we don't know and why it matters.
One quote here makes an unexpected point about science, arguing that progress mostly deepens our awareness of just how much remains unknown rather than eliminating it. Another calls ignorance a person's greatest asset, a wry, almost self-deprecating twist on the word.
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- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
Respectfully, 'Awkward Black Girl' was never meant to be politically correct. We poke fun at ignorance.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before I started writing, I'd never read much fiction. I was more interested in non-fiction. I'm taking the same approach to theatre: I can operate from a position of ignorance and make up my own rules instead of being bound by customs and practice.
- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes it's best to speak from ignorance: that way, you can see the wood without being distracted by the trees.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Oh, the ignorance of us upon whom Providence did not sufficiently smile to permit us to be born in New England.
- Opinion
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- Nov 07, 2020