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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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- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I've created comedically owes a lot to my ignorance of comedy and love of making theatre stuff.
- Dangerous
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They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.
- Greatest Threat
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Far and away, the greatest threat to the ocean, and thus to ourselves, is ignorance. But we can do something about that.
- Crazy
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- Nov 07, 2020
When someone has that combination of arrogance and ignorance - that drives me crazy.
- Early Days
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This paradox of vision - the genius of youthful ignorance - is nothing new. Had Bill Gates not been in diapers in the early days of computer software, he might have understood that there could never be a market for consumer software - but the 19-year-old Gates went ahead and cofounded Microsoft.
- Nov 07, 2020
The truth is that our race survived ignorance; it is our scientific genius that will do us in.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's inevitable that not everyone will like me, and that some will find me annoying. That's fine. All presenters deal with that. What's scary is the ignorance about what having a regional accent means, or indeed doesn't mean. It certainly doesn't equal ignorance.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
- Idealism
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Idealism, alas, does not protect one from ignorance, dogmatism, and foolishness.
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Poverty and ignorance, which beget terror, are not eradicated by firing artillery shells. Borders do not stop rockets, and barbed wire does not prevent terror.
- Nov 07, 2020