Quote of Benjamin Franklin - Being ignorant is not so much...
Biography - Benjamin Franklin:
Born: 1706 - Died: 1790
Period:
18th century
Place of birth: United States
Period:
18th century
Place of birth: United States
Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
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Quotes for: to learn
What experience and history teach is this — that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
Quotes about ignorance:
The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.
Suppose a man can convince me of error and bring home to me that I am mistaken in thought or act; I shall be glad to alter, for the truth is what I pursue, and no one was ever injured by the truth, whereas he is injured who continues in his own self-deception and ignorance.
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