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"Chance is only the measure of our ignorance."
Pierre-Paul Grassé Evolution of living organisms: evidence for a new theory of transformation (1977)
A play is made by sensing how the forces in life simulate ignorance — you set free the concealed irony, the deadly joke.
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.
Mother, here is Thy knowledge and here is Thy ignorance. Take them both, and give me only pure love.
The man who realizes his ignorance has taken the first step toward knowledge.
It is not Wisdom, but Ignorance, which teaches men presumption; Genius may be sometimes arrogant, but nothing is so diffident as Knowledge.
Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself, in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.
Whoever interrupts the conversation of others to make a display of his own fund of knowledge, makes notorious his own stock of ignorance.
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