“Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.”
Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) American author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, …
“There is no shame in not knowing something. The shame is in not being willing to learn.”
Source: The Naming
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