"The truth is like salt. Men want to taste a little, but too much makes everyone sick."
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"Certainty is the most vivid condition of ignorance and the most necessarycondition for knowledge."
"There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action."
"My cat is ignorant of the law. But then so am I. That means I am not his master, because we are both slaves."
"Travel brings wisdom only to the wise. It renders the ignorant more ignorant than ever."
"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."
"he who will not economize will have to agonize"
"Education is a system of imposed ignorance."
"Information is what you put in empty heads to keep them empty."
"We are all small-minded people, creeping about the earth grubbing for our own advantage and making the very mistakes for which we want to humiliate our neighbors."
"I am philosophical Christ; crucified on the cross of ignorance for the sake ofdivine vanity."
"It’s ever been the way of the man of science or philosophy. Most folks stay in the dark and then complain they can’t see nothing.” – Snipes (185)"
"The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is the pretense of intelligent ignorance. The former is teachable; the latter is not."
"I've been saying it so long to you, you just wouldn't listen. Every time you said 'Farm Boy do this' you thought I was answering 'As you wish' but that's only because you were hearing wrong. 'I love you' was what it was, but you never heard."
"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."
"truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold."
"Ignorance is not bliss. It is the kiss of death."
"There are people who are generic. They make generic responses and they expect generic answers. They live inside a box and they think people who don't fit into their box are weird. But I'll tell you what, generic people are the weird people. They are like genetically-manipulated plants growing inside a laboratory, like indistinguishable faces, like droids. Like ignorance."
"Give me the storm and tempest of thought and action, rather than the dead calm of ignorance and faith! Banish me from Eden when you will; but first let me eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge!"
"The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is."