6 Quotes by Henry David Thoreau about ignorance
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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?
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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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How can he remember well his ignorance - which his growth requires - who has so often to use his knowledge?
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The only sin in the world is 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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