Xenophon on ignorance
Xenophon47 quotes“Anyone who imprisoned people on the ground of ignorance might fairly be confined himself by those who understood what he did not.”
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However much you are read in theory, if thou hast no practice thou art ignorant.
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Michael FaradayMichael Faraday Whoever interrupts the conversation of others to make a display of his fund of knowledge, makes notorious his own stock of ignorance.
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