Homer Hickam Quotes
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Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
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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.
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His ignorance is encyclopedic.
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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.
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If ignorance is bliss, then knock the smile off my face.
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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.
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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.
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Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.
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We receive the truths of science by compulsion. Nothing but ignorance is able to resist them.
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I always wrote with some kind of angle of ignorance. I didn't know what was right or wrong.
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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.
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Ignorance is not bliss - it is oblivion.
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If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
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So far as I know, there were no pains taken to preserve secrecy on this subject; that is, I saw no attempt made to keep any of the inmates of the Convent in ignorance of the murder of children.
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I could never accept findings based almost exclusively on mathematics. It ain't ignorance that causes all the trouble in this world. It's the things people know that ain't so.
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Ignorance has always been the weapon of tyrants; enlightenment the salvation of the free.
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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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The level of ignorance is declining, and the ability to accumulate data and manipulate it for various ends is increasing.
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Ignorance is a tough evil to conquer.
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Hypnotism will become more and more a tool of scientific investigation. Telepathy will be proven without a doubt, and utilized, sadly enough in the beginning, for purposes of war and intrigue. Nevertheless telepathy will enable your race to make its first contact with alien intelligence.
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When I did 'Don't Look Back,' I no longer had Time-Life looking over my shoulder, so I could kind of do it as I wanted, and it was like I was really correcting 'Jane.'
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Narnia, Middle-earth and New York were my three fantasy universes when I was a kid.
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Nately had a bad start. He came from a good family.
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It is better to confess ignorance than provide it.
