#ignorance

To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant. ↗

— Amos Bronson Alcott

#ignorant #malady

I really think that living is the process of going from complete certainty to complete ignorance. ↗

— Richard Dreyfuss

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I am astonished each time I come to the U.S. by the ignorance of a high percentage of the population, which knows almost nothing about Latin America or about the world. It's quite blind and deaf to anything that may happen outside the frontiers of the U.S. ↗

— Eduardo Galeano

#almost #am #america #anything #astonished

Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges. ↗

— Katharine Fullerton Gerould

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The most violent element in society is ignorance. ↗

— Emma Goldman

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The little I know I owe to my ignorance. ↗

— Sacha Guitry

#ignorance #know #little #owe

I've demonstrated an impressive resilience in the face of valuable life lessons, and the main thing I seem to have learned from this one is that I am capable of learning nothing from almost any experience, no matter how profound. ↗

— Tim Kreider

#survival #experience

Backward is just not a natural direction for Americans to look - historical ignorance remains a national characteristic. ↗

— Larry McMurtry

#characteristic #direction #historical #ignorance #just

A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance. ↗

— Gian Carlo Menotti

#becomes #begins #calculate #depth #his

We are born knowing nothing and with much striving we learn but a little; yet all the while we are bound by laws that hearken to no plea of ignorance, and measure out their rewards and punishments with calm indifference. ↗

— Paul Elmer More

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