I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever.
Oscar WildeThere is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheTags: life prejudice ignorance bigotry
...we took the 10 machines we agreed were the most beguiling, and we put them on permanent exhibit in the foyer of this library underneath a sign whose words can surely be applied to this whole ruined planet nowadays: THE COMPLICATED FUTILITY OF IGNORANCE
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Tags: ignorance futility permanence
There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
G.K. ChestertonTags: human-nature ignorance boredom
He was talking about the sign that said 'THE COMPLICATED FUTILITY OF IGNORANCE.'
'All knew was that I didn't want my daughter or anybody's child to see a message that negative every time she comes into the library,' he said. 'And then I found out it was you who was responsible for it.'
'What's so negative about it?' I said.
'What could be a more negative word than "futility"?' he said.
'"Ignorance,"' I said.
Tags: inspirational ignorance futility
Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.
Thomas FullerTags: ignorance metaphor admire
Our ignorance can be divided into problems and mysteries. When we face a problem, we may not know its solution, but we have insight, increasing knowledge, and an inkling of what we are looking for. When we face a mystery, however, we can only stare in wonder and bewilderment, not knowing what an explanation would even look like.
Noam ChomskyTags: ignorance mysteries problems
Living is Easy with Eyes Closed.
John LennonTags: life ignorance beatles blindness
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
Charles DarwinTags: science certainty knowledge willful-ignorance ignorance open-mindedness
Herein lies the tragedy of the age: not that men are poor, — all men know something of poverty; not that men are wicked, — who is good? not that men are ignorant, — what is Truth? Nay, but that men know so little of men.
W.E.B. Du BoisTags: truth knowledge humanity ignorance poverty wickedness
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