#oran

The most solid piece of scientific truth I know of is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#i #ignorant #know #most #nature

I was going to go make a film in Greece. if they caught you with this much marijuana, they threw you in jail, no questions asked, and I was trying to stuff it in my deodorant bottles. I thought, what I am doing? ↗

— Dyan Cannon

#asked #bottles #caught #deodorant #doing

The orange of the golden carp appeared at the edge of the pond. . . . We watched in silence at the beauty and grandeur of the great fish. Out of the corners of my eyes I saw Cico hold his hand to his breast as the golden carp glided by. Then with a switch of his powerful tail the golden carp disappeared into the shadowy water under the thicket. ↗

— Rudolfo Anaya

#beauty #bless #carp #fish #golden

One's ignorance is one's chief asset. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#chief #ignorance

Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance. ↗

— Will Durant

#expanding #ignorance #knowledge #mirage #our

This is how I recognize an authentic poet: by frequenting him, living a long time in the intimacy of his work, something changes in myself, not so much my inclinations or my tastes as my very blood, as if a subtle disease had been injected to alter its course, its density and nature. To live around a true poet is to feel your blood run thin, to dream a paradise of anemia, and to hear, in your veins, the rustle of tears. ↗

— Emil Cioran

#change #cioran #emil-cioran #poet #change

I don't know Dr. Rosenberg. I have never met her, I have never spoken or corresponded with this woman. And to my knowledge, she is ignorant of my work and background except in the very broadest of terms. ↗

— Steven Hatfill

#broadest #corresponded #dr #except #her

Why should we, however, in economics, have to plead ignorance of the sort of facts on which, in the case of a physical theory, a scientist would certainly be expected to give precise information? ↗

— Friedrich August von Hayek

#certainly #economics #expected #facts #give

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

#ignorance #knowledge #opinions #perpetual #recipe

Ignore the ignorant. ↗

— Ricky Martin

#ignore