“Ah, how the seeds of cockiness blossom when soiled in ignorance.”

“Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.”

“And we saw the seed,
The minuscule Sequoia seed
In the museum by the tremendous slab
Of the tree. And imagined the seed
In soil and the growth quickened
So that we saw the seed reach out, forcing
Earth thru itself into bark, wood, the green
Needles of a redwood until the tree
Stood in the room without soil—
How much of the earth's
Crust has lived
The seed’s violence!
The shock is metaphysical.”

“Foaly: Confidence is ignorance. If you're feeling cocky, it's because there's something you don't know.”

“If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and the impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in which the seeds must grow.”

“Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.”

“Ah, but ignorance is better. At least then there's hope.”

“Friends, the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests.”

“They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.”

“The ignorant are like useless, brackish soil;
They exist and that is all.”