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Saturday, 11 October 2008
Daily Quote:
"It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it." (Byron, Lord - Life and Living)

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All that glitters is not gold.
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Browse Quotations about Ignorance

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.
A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.
A man profits more by the sight of an idiot than by the orations of the learned.
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Being ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to learn.
Better to ask a question than to remain ignorant.
Better to be ignorant of a matter than half know it.
Everybody is ignorant -- only on different subjects.
Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.
He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.
I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.
I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know.
I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have so much of it.


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