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  1. Ursula K. Le Guin _ City of Illusions

    They let us be, here, in the cage of our ignorance.
    book-quoteignorancesuppression

  2. Paulo Coelho _ Brida

    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.
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  3. Dan Simmons _ Endymion

    The shortest route to courage is absolute ignorance.
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  4. Chuck Palahniuk _ Choke

    Ignorance was bliss.
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  5. J.K. Rowling _ Harry Potter and the Order of

    I expect what you're not aware of would fill several books, Dursely.
    book-quoteignorance

  6. Ray Bradbury _ Fahrenheit 451

    Last night I thought about all that kerosene I've used in the past ten years. And I thought about books. And for the first time I realized that a man was behind each one of the books. A man had to think them up. A man had to take a long time to put them down on paper. And I'd never even thought that thought before." He got out of bed."It took some man a lifetime maybe to put some of his thoughts down, looking around at the world and life and then I come along in two minutes and boom! it's all over.""Let me alone," said Mildred. "I didn't do anything.""Let you alone! That's all very well, but how can I leave myself alone? We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were bothered? About something important, about something real?
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  7. Ray Bradbury _ Fahrenheit 451

    My feet," said Montag. "I can't move them. I feel so damn silly. My feet won't move!""Listen. Easy now," said the old man gently. "I know, I know. You're afraid of making mistakes. be. Mistakes can be profited by. Man, when I was young I my ignorance in people's faces. They beat me with sticks. By the time I was forty my blunt instrument had been honed to a fine cutting point for me. If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn."
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  8. Ray Bradbury _ Fahrenheit 451

    How in hell did those bombers get up there every single second of our lives! Why doesn't someone want to talk about it! We've started and won two atomic wars since 2022! Is it because we're having so much fun at home we've forgotten the world? Is it because we're so rich and the rest of the world's so poor and we just don't care if they are? I've heard rumors; the world is starving, but we're well fed. Is it true, the world works hard and we play? Is that why we're hated so much? I've heard the rumors about hate too, once in a long while, over the years. Do you know why? I don't, that's sure! Maybe the books can get us half out of the cave. They just might stop us from making the same damn insane mistakes!
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  9. Ray Bradbury _ The Martian Chronicles

    Ignorance is fatal.
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  10. Herman Melville _ Moby-Dick, or, the Whale

    Ignorance is the parent of fear.
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  11. Douglas Adams _ The Hitchhiker's Guide to the

    One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about human beings was their habit of continually stating and repeating the very very obvious, as in or or At first Ford had formed a theory to account for this strange behaviour. If human beings don't keep exercising their lips, he thought, their mouths probably seize up. After a few months' consideration and observation he abandoned this theory in favour of a new one. If they don't keep on exercising their lips, he thought, their brains start working.
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  12. Dan Millman _ Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A

    And where," Socrates smiled, "is the universe?""The universe is well, there are theories about how it's shaped...""That's not what I asked. Where is it?""I don't know - how can I answer that?""That is the point. You cannot answer it, and you never will. There is no knowing about it. You are ignorant of where the universe is, and thus, where you are. In fact, you have no knowledge of where anything is or of What anything is or how is came to be. Life is a mystery."My ignorance is based on this understanding. Your understanding is based on ignorance. This is why I am a humorous fool, and you are a serious jackass.
    book-quoteunderstandingignoranceseriousness
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