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A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure.

—Segal's Law

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Rogues are preferable to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest.

—Alexandre Dumas

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There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is youthful ignorance of the fact that the middle aged are still alive.

—Jessamyn West

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When nothing is for sure, we remain alert, perennially on our toes. It is more exciting not to know which bush the rabbit is hiding behind than to behave as though we knew everything.

—Carlos Castaneda

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We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.

—Thomas A. Edison

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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.

—W.S. Merwin

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I have learned that no matter how much I learn about anything, I am always at 'the threshold of ignorance,' a frontier of inner and outer awareness (and lack of it) in which some things have become second nature, some things are new and a little uncomfortable, and some things are a complete mystery.

—Rich Frye

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Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.

—Kahlil Gibran

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People are so stupid. They think they've got the whole puzzle figured out, but they're really so far off.

—Laurie Faria Stolarz in Deadly Little Games

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Nostalgia has a way of blocking the reality of the past.

—Shannon L. Alder

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People travel to faraway places to watch in fascination the kind of people they ignore at home.

—Dagobert D. Runes

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An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.

—Will Rogers

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Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity.

—Unknown

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A little learning is a dangerous thing but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.

—Bob Edwards

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A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.

—Anatole France

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