I only know that I know nothing.
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No one knows for certain how much impact they have on the lives of other people. Oftentimes, we have no clue. Yet we push it just the same.
I do not know myself completely.
My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.
Discussion is an exchange of knowledge, an argument an exchange of ignorance.
The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
I am always amazed by people who know something is wrong but still insist on ignoring it, as if that will somehow make it go away. They spare themselves the confrontation, but end up boiling in resentment anyway.
True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.
I am tired of knowing nothing and being reminded of it all the time.
Knowledge is strength. Ignorance is the kiss of death.
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
It is well known that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what you're attempting can't be done.
They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.
People don’t like to think, if one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.
If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn.
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.
But the more Vox persists, the less hope there is for American politics. The Vox model is premised on the idea that people shouldn’t think for themselves, that the important parts of political thought and decision-making should be outsourced to experts. Inevitably, these experts will produce solutio…
If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn.
there’s nothing wrong with admitting you were once toxic. there’s nothing wrong with admitting you made a couple people feel like shit. there’s nothing wrong with admitting you fucked up and were horribly arrogant and parasitic. there’s nothing wrong with admitting you did anyone wrong, especially i…
The universe is not short on wake-up calls. We’re just quick to hit the snooze button.