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“My philosophy
like colour TV
is all there
in black and white”
Monty Python

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Ignorance

 A little doubt is better than total credulity. 
 A mouth incontinent and at the same time artless. 
 Democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge. 
 Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing. 
 Fear not those who argue but those who dodge. 
Nicht jene, die streiten, sind zu fürchten, sondern jene, die ausweichen.
 Hanlon's razor: Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. 
 I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. 
 I don't even know what street Canada is on. 
 I was much further out than you thought
And not waving but drowning. 
 If ignorance isn't bliss, I don't know what is. 
 If the ignorance of nature gave birth to such a variety of gods, the knowledge of this nature is calculated to destroy them. 
 Ignorance is the mother of admiration. 
 Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance. 
 It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers. 
 It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance. 
Ne hoc quidem scire quod nescias.
 It requires less mental effort to condemn than to think. 
 Man knows much more than he understands. 
 No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there. 
 Nothing is more terrifying than ignorance in action. 
Es ist nichts schrecklicher als eine tätige Unwissenheit.
 Suns are extinguished or become corrupted, planets perish and scatter across the wastes of the sky; other suns are kindled, new planets formed to make their revolutions or describe new orbits, and man, an infinitely minute part of a globe which itself is only an imperceptible point in the immense whole, believes that the universe is made for himself. 
 The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking. 
Das Bedenklichste in unserer bedenklichen Zeit ist, dass wir noch nicht denken.
 The River of Ignorance covers most of my regrets. 
 There is no such thing as a free lunch, but there is always free cheese in a mousetrap. 
 There were grammatical errors even in his silence. 
Nawet w jego milczeniu były błędy językowe.
 To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. 
 Where ignorance is bliss,
'Tis folly to be wise.