Homer Hickam Quotes

It is better to confess ignorance than provide it.

Homer Hickam

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• Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges.

  

  Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
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• Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

  

  H. L. Mencken
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• I've wanted to be a writer since I was a boy, though it seemed an unlikely outcome since I showed no real talent. But I persevered and eventually found my own row to hoe. Ignorance of other writers' work keeps me from discouragement and I am less well-read than the average bus driver.

  

  Garrison Keillor
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• The knowledge from an enlightened person breaks on the hard rocks of ignorance.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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• God's truth is helped by no man's ignorance.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
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• His ignorance is encyclopedic.

  

  Abba Eban
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• When an unbaked pot is broken, the potter can use the mud to make a new one; but when a baked one is broken, he cannot do the same any longer. So when a person dies in a state of ignorance, he is born again; but when he becomes well baked in the fire of true knowledge and dies a perfect man, he is not born again.

  

  Ramakrishna
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• If ignorance is bliss, then knock the smile off my face.

  

  Zack de la Rocha Rage Against the Machine
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• Selective ignorance, a cornerstone of child rearing. You don't put kids under surveillance: it might frighten you. Parents should sit tall in the saddle and look upon their troops with a noble and benevolent and extremely nearsighted gaze.

  

  Garrison Keillor
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• Hold back your mind from pride, for pride comes only from ignorance. The man who does not know thinks that he is great, that he has done this or that great thing; the wise man knows that only God is great, that all good work is done by God alone.

  

  Jiddu Krishnamurti
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• Christianity was an epidemic rather than a religion. It appealed to fear, hysteria and ignorance. It spread across the Western world, not because it was true, but because humans are gullible and superstitious.

  

  Colin Wilson
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• Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.

  

  Margaret Atwood
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• Racism springs from ignorance.

  

  Mario Balotelli
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• We receive the truths of science by compulsion. Nothing but ignorance is able to resist them.

  

  Chauncey Wright
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• I don't even know where to start in terms of people having such an issue about color, especially being dark. I just think on different levels it's ignorance; it's no belief, no confidence, it's insecurity, so you want to inflict it on somebody else.

  

  Alek Wek
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• You know when you're young, you have this unbelievable stupidity and arrogance and ignorance all mixed in?

  

  Christopher Guest
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• I always wrote with some kind of angle of ignorance. I didn't know what was right or wrong.

  

  Tyler Joseph Twenty One Pilots
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• Ah, to be a conservative climate change denier. While real scientists must do all the research and engage in heated debates about just how bad things are going to be, the deniers can rest easy in the bliss of willful ignorance.

  

  David Horsey
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• Ignorance is not bliss - it is oblivion.

  

  Philip Wylie
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• If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

  

  Jeff Rich The Climax Blues Band
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• Yes I know my enemies. They're the teachers who taught me to fight me, compromise, conformity, assimilation, submission, ignorance, hypocrisy, brutality, the elite, all of which are American dreams.

  

  Zack de la Rocha Rage Against the Machine
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• Be thorough in all you do; and remember that although ignorance often may be innocent, pretension is always despicable.

  

  William E. Gladstone
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• Whenever you go through the length and breadth of our country... you see a long face: you will see the long face of an African woman because she's black, because she's poor.

  

  Cyril Ramaphosa
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• It is better to confess ignorance than provide it.

  

  Homer Hickam
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