“It’s innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn’t.” — Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook
Tag: ignorance
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“Those at too great a distance may, I am well aware, mistake ignorance for perspective.” — Carl Sagan, The Dragons of Eden
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“The one thing that is more dangerous than true ignorance is the illusion of understanding.” — A. C. Grayling, Life, Sex and Ideas
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“We live on an island surrounded by a sea of island, . As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.” — John Archibald Wheeler, “Gravity quantized?,” Scientific American (Sep 1992)
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“When I say that Descartes consecrated doubt, you must remember that it was that sort of doubt which Goethe has called ‘the active scepticism, whose whole aim is to conquer itself’; and not that other sort which is born of flippancy and ignorance, and whose aim is only to perpetuate itself, as an excuse for idleness and indifference.” — Thomas Huxley, “On Descartes,” Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Reviews
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“I’ve always found that a really lively argument depends on the ignorance of the combatants.” — Guy Vanderhaeghe, Man Descending
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“Nothing limits intelligence more than ignorance; nothing fosters ignorance more than one’s own opinions; nothing strengthens opinions more than refusing to look at reality.” — Sheri S. Tepper, The Visitor
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“A worthy goal for a year is to learn enough about a subject so that you can’t believe how ignorant you were a year earlier.” — Kevin Kelly, 68 Bits of Unsolicited Advice
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“How does one learn innocence? How does one teach ignorance? For to be them is to know them not.” — R. Scott Bakker, The Warrior-Prophet
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“Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.” — Sydney Smith, Elementary Sketches of Moral Philosophy
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