Henry David Thoreau Quotes About Ignorance
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True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
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From exertion come wisdom and purity; from sloth ignorance and sensuality.
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If it is necessary, omit one bridge over the river, go round a little there, and throw one arch at least over the darker gulf of ignorance which surrounds us.
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A man’s ignorance sometimes is not only useful, but beautiful - while his knowledge, so called, is oftentimes worse than useless, besides being ugly. Which is the best man to deal with - he who knows nothing about a subject, and, what is extremely rare, knows that he knows nothing, or he who really knows something about it, but thinks that he knows all?
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The savage lives simply through ignorance and idleness or laziness, but the philosopher lives simply through wisdom.
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A man's ignorance sometimes is not only useful, but beautiful-while his knowledge, so called, is oftentimes worse than useless, besides being ugly.
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The greatest and saddest defect is not credulity, but an habitual forgetfulness that our science is ignorance.
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We have heard of a Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. It is said that knowledge is power, and the like. Methinks there is equal need of a Society for the Diffusion of Useful Ignorance, what we will call Beautiful Knowledge, a knowledge useful in a higher sense: for what is most of our boasted so-called knowledge but a conceit that we know something, which robs us of the advantage of our actual ignorance? What we call knowledge is often our positive ignorance; ignorance our negative knowledge.
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A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance.
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How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time?
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There is a chasm between knowledge and ignorance which the arches of science can never span.
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The child should have the advantage of ignorance as well as of knowledge, and is fortunate if he gets his share of neglect and exposure.
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The only sin in the world is ignorance.
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Most men, even in this comparatively free country, through mere ignorance and mistake, are so occupied with the factitious cares and superfluously coarse labors of life that its finer fruits cannot be plucked by them.
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How can he remember well his ignorance - which his growth requires - who has so often to use his knowledge?
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Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.
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Prominent and influential editors, accustomed to deal with politicians, men of an infinitely lower grade, say, in their ignorance,that he acted "on the principle of revenge." They do not know the man. They must enlarge themselves to conceive of him.... They have got to conceive of a man of faith and of religious principle, and not a politician or an Indian; of a man who did not wait till he was personally interfered with or thwarted in some harmless business before he gave his life to the cause of the oppressed.
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