
“How can people be anything but ignorant when knowledge isn’t saved, isn’t taught?”
“The Finder” (p. 67)
Earthsea Books, Tales from Earthsea (2001)
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)
Source: The Handmaid's Tale
“How can people be anything but ignorant when knowledge isn’t saved, isn’t taught?”
“The Finder” (p. 67)
Earthsea Books, Tales from Earthsea (2001)
“If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're gonna get selfish, ignorant leaders.”
“Young people are the same as they always were. Just as ignorant.”
Source: At Duke of Edinburgh Awards scheme in 2006, https://www.womanandhome.com/life/news-entertainment/prince-philip-quotes-63435/
“The trouble is, you can ignore history—but history won’t necessarily ignore you.”
Source: The Laundry Files, The Fuller Memorandum (2010), Chapter 5, “Lost in Committee” (p. 87)
“Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance is the death of knowledge.”