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When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds
When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds
Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.
In extraordinary events ignorance of their causes produces
astonishment.
[Lat., Causarum ignoratio in re nova mirationem facit.]
In extraordinary events ignorance of their causes produces
astonishment.
[Lat., Causarum ignoratio in re nova mirationem facit.]
It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.
It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.
Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.
Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.
We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone read more
We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.
There is no reply to the ignorant like keeping silence
There is no reply to the ignorant like keeping silence
Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge, but passes into it
through an intermediate state of obscurity, even as night into read more
Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge, but passes into it
through an intermediate state of obscurity, even as night into
day through twilight.