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"The dilemma of modern medicine, and the underlying central flaw in medical education and, most of all, in the training of interns, is the irresistible drive to do something, anything. It is expected by patients and too often agreed to by their doctors, in the face of ignorance."
"Good science is done by being curious in general, by asking questions all around, by acknowledging the likelihood of being wrong and taking this in good humor for granted, by having a deep fondness for nature, and by being made jumpy and nervous by ignorance."
"It is not so bad being ignorant if you are totally ignorant; the hard thing is knowing in some detail the reality of ignorance."
"It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence."
"We're just very belligerent, and I'm not trying to put Americans down, by and large I think we're nice people, but we operate with the information we're given and we are limited by the ignorance that is kind of injected into the media and into the TV shows."
"A secret may be sometimes best kept by keeping the secret of its being a secret. It is not many years since a State secret of the greatest importance was printed without being divulged, merely by sending it to the press like any other matter, and trusting to the mechanical habits of the persons employed. They printed it piecemeal in ignorance of what it was about."
"And some men are as ignorant of what they do when awake as they are forgetful of what they do when asleep."
"It is better to conceal ignorance than to expose it."
"The present age has witnessed an extraordinary increase of a thinking public, by the facilities afforded to the diffusion of reading; the former happy resignation to ignorance begins to make way for a state of half-enlightenment, and few persons are willing to remain in the condition in which their birth has placed then."
"He is annoyed with their lack of interest, their blithe ignorance of the arbitrary genetic lottery that has granted them their privileged lives."
"Let ignorance reproduce itself until it is weary of its own offspring."
"Ignorance is not not knowin' - Ignorance is knowin' what ain't so."
"The ignorant are afraid to betray surprise or admiration...they think it ill manners."
"I always did hate for anyone to know what my plans or hopes or prospects werefor, if I kept people in ignorance in these matters, no one could be disappointed but myself, if they were not realized."
"All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure. You can "already know for sure" things that could actually impede progress. Always be on the lookout for the things you did not know, that you did not know. Secondly, work on strengthening personal belief that a particular will be achieved regardless of any adversity that may show up, or evidence to the contrary."
"...one should be gentle with the ignorant, for they are the chosen of God."
"We never knew an ignorant person yet but was prejudiced."
"...ignorant as the unborne babe! ignorant as unborn twins!"
"Nothing is so ignorant as a man's left hand, except a lady's watch."
"To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: it is the only way we can leave the future open. Man, surrounded by facts, permitting himself no surmise, no intuitive flash, no great hypothesis, no risk, is in a locked cell. Ignorance cannot seal the mind and imagination more surely."
