Ignorance Quote by Kathryn Schulz

““Ignorance isn't necessarily a vacuum waiting to be filled; just as often, it is a wall, actively maintained. (p.107)””

Kathryn Schulz

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“The vast majority of our beliefs are really beliefs once removed. Our faith that we are right is faith that someone else is right.…

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One of the deepest and strangest of all human moods is the mood which will suddenly strike us perhaps in a garden at night, or deep in sloping meadows, the feeling that every flower and leaf has just uttered something stupendously direct and important, and that we have by a prodigy of imbecility not heard or understood it. There is…

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Ignorance is not bliss — it is oblivion. Determined ignorance is the hastiest kind of oblivion.

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“If knowledge does not liberate the self from the self, then ignorance is better than such knowledge.”

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You are senile old fool, and because of your impudence, I cannot fathom how you still live!

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“Don’t turn your face away. Once you’ve seen, you can no longer act like you don’t know. Open your eyes to the truth. It’s all around you. Don’t deny what the eyes to your soul have revealed to you. Now that you know, you cannot feign ignorance. Now that you’re aware of the problem, you cannot pretend you don’t care.…

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