"Knowledge is a collective enterprise. Without it understanding is impossible. Ignorance is too often a murderous vulnerability."

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Source : Jane Rule (2013). “Outlander: Short Stories and Essays”, p.193, Open Road Media

Jane Rule

#Ignorance Quotes #Knowledge Quotes #Understanding Quotes

“Stopping an army, isn't that something you try 300 times before you do it?”
“It's hard to be funny when you have to be clean.”
“Not that I had any special reason for hating school. Strange as it may seem to my readers, I was not unpopular there. I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.”
“The one-sided exploitation of existential guilt is thought reform's trump card, and perhaps its most important source of emotional influence over its participants. Revolving around it are issues most decisive to thought reform's outcome.”

Source : Robert Jay Lifton (2012). “Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism: A Study of 'brainwashing' in China”, p.78, UNC Press Books
“I just want to challenge myself and play some different characters.”
“What is essential is whether it is perceived and not whether it exists. To exist and yet not to be perceived is the same as not exist.”

Source : "Soul Mountain". Book by Gao Xingjian, 1990.
“Let's have the music that will open the door to millions of people... the kind of music that will not make people think only of the song or even of the singer... not music that is confined to the merely personal.”
“Deep down, you see, I long to be arcane, esoteric. I would love to confound people with their own language.”

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