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"The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism."
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"Israel of the coastal plain, where eight out of ten Israeli Jews live far removed from the occupied territories, from the fiery Jerusalem, from the religious and nationalistic conflicts, is unknown to the outside world, almost unknown to itself."
"Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding."
"A straight face is an ignorant man's attempt to appear knowledgeable."
"The darkest thing about Africa has always been our ignorance of it."
"So the paradox goes: No man who is really ignorant is ever aware that he is ignorant. That is its finest, most faulty manifestation; there can be no true ignorance without first some claim of intelligence or consciousness, or superiority or enlightenment."
"To be naive is to be unaware of how stupid and cruel other people are; but, by some definitions, ignorance is nearly the opposite of naivety in being a kind of cynicism, in being unaware of their intelligence and humanity. It seems to be a normal although unfortunate case that the great many of us consciously abhor ignorance in others yet subconsciously practice it ourselves: as naivety is apparent and well-known to inflict its damage upon oneself; whereas the alternative and the easier, ignorance, its damage upon others."
"The more we study the more we discover our ignorance."
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"Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease."
"To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle."
"He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all."
"The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases."
"It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has."
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