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There are young men and women up and down the land who happily (or unhappily) tell anyone who will listen that they don’t have an academic turn of mind, or that they aren’t lucky enough to have been blessed with a good memory, and yet can recite hundreds of pop lyrics and reel off any amount of information about footballers. Why? Because they are interested in those things. They are curious. If you are hungry for food, you are prepared to hunt high and low for it. If you are hungry for information it is the same. Information is all around us, now more than ever before in human history. You barely have to stir or incommode yourself to find things out. The only reason people do not know much is because they do not care to know. They are incurious. Incuriosity is the oddest and most foolish failing there is.


Stephen Fry


#willful-ignorance #food

The truth is like salt. Men want to taste a little, but too much makes everyone sick.


Joe Abercrombie


#knowledge #truth #men

I remeber asking a wise man, once . . . 'Why do Men fear the dark?' . . . 'Because darkness' he told me, 'is ignorance made visable.' 'And do Men despise ignorance?' I asked. 'No,' he said, 'they prize it above all things--all things!--but only so long as it remains invisible.


R. Scott Bakker


#fear #ignorance #pg- #men

The men on the trading floor may not have been to school, but they have Ph.D.’s in man’s ignorance.


Michael Lewis


#trading #men

in times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity.


Abraham Lincoln


#knowledge #remaining-silent #wisdom #men

A winner knows how much he still has to learn, even when he is considered an expert by others; a loser wants to be considered an expert by others before he has learned enough to know how little he knows.


Sydney J. Harris


#personal-growth #personal-growth

The truth. Men will blind themselves with hot irons, rather than face it.


David Gemmell


#ignorance #truth #men

Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.


Jeremy Bentham


#ignorance #law #lawyers #only #persons

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.


Christian Nestell Bovee


#ignorance #our #proportion #them #things

Ignorance is never out of style. It was in fashion yesterday, it is the rage today and it will set the pace tomorrow.


Frank Dane


#ignorance #never #out #pace #rage






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