“How can people be anything but ignorant when knowledge isn’t saved, isn’t taught?”
Ursula K. Le Guin (1929–2018) American writer
“The Finder” (p. 67)
Earthsea Books, Tales from Earthsea (2001)
“Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.”
— Margaret Atwood, book The Handmaid's Tale
Variant: We lived, as usual by ignoring. Ignoring isn't the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.
Source: The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), Chapter 10 (p. 56)
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