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- If you are not an idealist by the time you are twenty you don't have a heart, but if you are still an idealist by thirty you don't have a head.
- Randolph Bourne
- It's just as sure a recipe for failure to have the right idea fifty years too soon as five years too late.
- J. R. Platt
- A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
- Saul Bellow (1915 - 2005)
- I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have got so much more of it.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
- Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007)
- To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant
- Amos Bronson Alcott (1799 - 1888)
- Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
- Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
- Nothing is so firmly believed as that which is least known.
- Francis Jeffrey (1773 - 1850)
- Our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.
- Vladimir Nabokov (1899 - 1977)
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