Thomas Carlyle Quotes About Ignorance
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Statistics, one may hope, will improve gradually, and become good for something. Meanwhile, it is to be feared the crabbed satirist was partly right, as things go: "A judicious man," says he, "looks at Statistics, not to get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted on him."
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That there should one man die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call a tragedy.
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Perfect ignorance is quiet, perfect knowledge is quiet; not so the transition from the former to the latter.
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I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
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A judicious man looks at Statistics, not to "get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted 'on him".
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Social Science, is not a 'gay science' but rueful, which finds the secret of this universe in 'supply and demand' and reduces the duty of human governors to that of letting men alone. Not a 'gay science', no, a dreary, desolate, and indeed quite abject and distressing one; what we might call, the dismal science
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