#ignorance

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#ignorance #life #prejudice #life

We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance. ↗

— Warren Weaver

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And whenever any one informs us that he has found a man who knows all the arts, and all things else that anybody knows, and every single thing with a higher degree of accuracy than any other man –whoever tells us this, I think that we can only imagine him to be a simple creature who is likely to have been deceived by some wizard or actor whom he met, and whom he thought all-knowing, because he himself was unable to analyze the nature of knowledge and ignorance and imitation. ↗

— Plato

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He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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There was a long hard time when I kept far from me the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I was quite ignorant of its worth. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#regret #ignorance

Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#ignorance #indoctrination #education

There’s faith that knows itself as faith, Proyas, and there’s faith that confuses itself for knowledge. The first embraces uncertainty, acknowledges the mysteriousness of the God. It begets compassion and tolerance. Who can entirely condemn when they’re not entirely certain they’re in the right? But the second, Proyas, the second embraces certainty and only pays lip service to the God’s mystery. It begets intolerance, hatred, violence. ↗

— R. Scott Bakker

#god #ignorance #intolerance #religion #faith

What struck me whenever I visited a farm was how much more sophisticated was the life the animals were capable of living than was assumed by those exploiting them. The more we are willing to see about their lives, the more we will see. Humans seem to take perverse pleasure in attributing stupidity to animals when it is almost always entirely a question of human ignorance. ↗

— Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

#ignorance #intelligence #food

His progress through life was hampered by his tremendous sense of his own ignorance, a disability which affects all too few. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#life

When we set out on the path, we always have a fairly clear idea of what we hope to find. Women are generally seeking their Soul Mate, and men looking for Power. Neither party is really interested in learning. They simply want to reach the thing they have set as their goal. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

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