- Disappointment
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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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- Crime
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is hardly fair to accuse us of ignorance when it was made a crime under the former order of things to learn enough about letters to even read the Word of God.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020
The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ignorance is the mother of admiration.
- Interest
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- Nov 07, 2020
The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are all blindly adopted, the second willfully preferred.
- Destiny
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ignorance is bliss, or so we're told. Personally, I find ignorance is also destiny.
- Others
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our only solace as writers is in the work itself, and perhaps also in a penchant for blissful ignorance that allows us to gamble, to risk, to keep going where others would tote up the odds and stop.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've wanted to be a writer since I was a boy, though it seemed an unlikely outcome since I showed no real talent. But I persevered and eventually found my own row to hoe. Ignorance of other writers' work keeps me from discouragement and I am less well-read than the average bus driver.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
But what sin is to the moralist and crime to the jurist so to the scientific man is ignorance.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020