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Michael Pollan
“Eating is an agricultural act,' as Wendell Berry famously said. It is also an ecological act, and a political act, too. Though much has been done to obscure this simple fact, how and what we eat determines to a great extent the use we make of the world - and what is to become of it. To eat with a fuller consciousness of all that is at stake might sound like a burden, but in practice few things in life can afford quite as much satisfaction. By comparison, the pleasures of eating industrially, which is to say eating in ignorance, are fleeting. Many people today seem erfectly content eating at the end of an industrial food chain, without a thought in the world; this book is probably not for them.”
Michael Pollan, The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

Phyllis McGinley
“Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy”
Phyllis McGinley

Plato
“And whenever any one informs us that he has found a man who knows all the arts, and all things else that anybody knows, and every single thing with a higher degree of accuracy than any other man 鈥搘hoever tells us this, I think that we can only imagine him to be a simple creature who is likely to have been deceived by some wizard or actor whom he met, and whom he thought all-knowing, because he himself was unable to analyze the nature of knowledge and ignorance and imitation.”
Plato, The Republic

Horace Mann
“Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.”
Horace Mann

Carson McCullers
“There are those who know and those who don't know. And for every ten thousand who don't know there's only one who knows. That's the miracle of all time--the fact that these millions know so much but don't know this.”
Carson McCullers, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

Tom Robbins
“The enemy is the tyranny of the dull mind.”
Tom Robbins, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

“Stand up to ignorance, because if you don't, the ignorant will run free to spread ignorance like a disease.”
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

Ron Rash
“It鈥檚 ever been the way of the man of science or philosophy. Most folks stay in the dark and then complain they can鈥檛 see nothing.鈥 鈥 Snipes (185)”
Ron Rash, Serena

Shannon L. Alder
“You can't compare men or women with mental disorders to the normal expectations of men and women in without mental orders. Your dealing with symptoms and until you understand that you will always try to find sane explanations among insane behaviors. You will always have unreachable standards and disappointments. If you want to survive in a marriage to someone that has a disorder you have to judge their actions from a place of realistic expectations in regards to that person's upbringing and diagnosis.”
Shannon L. Alder

B.F. Skinner
“...not everyone is willing to defend a position of 'not knowing.' There is no virtue in ignorance for its own sake.”
B.F. Skinner

Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
“What struck me whenever I visited a farm was how much more sophisticated was the life the animals were capable of living than was assumed by those exploiting them. The more we are willing to see about their lives, the more we will see. Humans seem to take perverse pleasure in attributing stupidity to animals when it is almost always entirely a question of human ignorance.”
Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, The Face on Your Plate: The Truth About Food

Edwin Arnold
“Shall any gazer see with mortal eyes,
Or any searcher know by mortal mind,
Veil after veil will lift--but there must be
Veil upon veil behind.”
Edwin Arnold, The Light of Asia

Linda Leaming
“There are all kinds of ignorance in the world. Education, learning to read and write, doesn't necessarily give us knowledge. We have to learn to use our minds to see what is really happening.”
Linda Leaming, Married to Bhutan

Terry Pratchett
“On the Kite, the situation was being 'workshopped'. This is the means by which people who don't know anything get together to pool their ignorance.”
Terry Pratchett, The Last Hero

T.S. Eliot
“All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance,
All our ignorance brings us nearer to death,
But nearness to death no nearer to God.
Where is the life we have lost in living?
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?”
T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land and Other Poems

Ali Smith
“It is important to know the stories and histories of things, even if all we know is that we don't know.”
Ali Smith, There But For The

S. Spencer Baker
“mystery is not founded in ignorance, mystery is founded in imagination”
S. Spencer Baker, Slabscape: Reset

Philippa Gregory
“Do you really think that God in his heaven with all the angels, there from the beginning of time and looking towards the day of judgement day, really looks down on all the world and see's you and little harry and says 'whatever you choose to do is my will?'
"Yes i do." she says uncertainly.”
Philippa Gregory, The Red Queen

Rudyard Kipling
“He drew from under the table a sheet of strangely scented yellow-Chinese paper, the brushes, and slab of India ink. In cleanest, severest outline he had traced the Great Wheel with its six spokes, whose centre is the conjoined Hog, Snake, and Dove (Ignorance, Anger, and Lust), and whose compartments are all the heavens and hells, and all the chances of human life.”
Rudyard Kipling, Kim

Toba Beta
“Naive keeps on dreaming of heaven on earth,
ignoring the truth that even heavens are at war.”
Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

Toba Beta
“No emphaty when you had blinders on.”
Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

“To admit your ignorance is freeing. To say, "I don't know" is to free yourself from having to come up with a bullshit answer.”
Eric Roxas

Marsha Hinds
“On Stupidity - There is no such thing as a foolproof plan. If there are fools about, no plan is proof against them.”
Marsha Hinds

Terry Pratchett
“Because the universe was full of ignorance all around and the scientist panned through it like a prospector crouched over a mountain stream, looking for the gold of knowledge among the gravel of unreason, the sand of uncertainty and the little whiskery eight-legged swimming things of superstition.”
Terry Pratchett, Witches Abroad

Irving Stone
“Cruelty is a child of ignorance, and someday men will stop judging and condemning each other. I am really more interested in this than anything else; I wish I could make the world kinder and more humane than it is.”
Irving Stone, Clarence Darrow for the Defense

Friedrich Nietzsche
“We know that the destruction of an ideal does not necessarily produce a truth, but only one more piece of ignorance; it is the extension of our 鈥榚mpty space,鈥 an increase in our 鈥榳aste.”
Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will to Power

Bryant McGill
“Ignorance is the supreme oppressor.”
Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“Sometimes silence is a sign, not of not knowing what to say, but of knowing when to say what you know.”
Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Fernando Pessoa
“I鈥檓 talking metaphysics? But all of life is a metaphysics in the darkness, with a vague murmur of the gods and only one way to follow, which is our ignorance of the right way.”
Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

Tyler Edwards
“Boldness plus ignorance is a dangerous kind of foolishness.”
Tyler Edwards, The Outlands