"People cheat when they are afraid. When there is no cost to being wrong or confessing ignorance, there is no reason to cheat or fake comprehension."

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Source : Leah Hager Cohen (2013). “I don't know: In Praise of Admitting Ignorance (Except When You Shouldn't)”, p.9, Penguin

Leah Hager Cohen

#Ignorance Quotes #People Quotes #Fake Quotes

“Brother, if you want to get the lowdown, Come along and let's all have a hoedown.”
“It does no harm to the romance of the sunset to know a little bit about it.”
“Where we go depends on what we know, and what we know depends on where we go.”

Source : Tess Gerritsen (2015). “The Rizzoli & Isles Series 11-Book Bundle: The Surgeon, The Apprentice, The Sinner, Body Double, Vanish, The Mephisto Club, The Keepsake, Ice Cold, The Silent Girl, Last to Die, Die Again”, p.135, Ballantine Books
“I trust no one who hasnâ€™t time for music.”
“I think if the movie has resonance and stimulates the viewer to talk about it, you can have as large an audience as you want. The most important thing for me is that the movie exists. And that's success enough already.”
“...which causes me to wonder, my own purpose on so many days as humble as the spider's, what is beautiful that I make? What is elegant? What feeds the world?”
“The same substance composes us--the tree overhead, the stone beneath us, the bird, the beast, the star--we are all one, all moving to the same end.”
“I was twenty when I discovered war and photography. I can't say that I wanted to bear witness and change the world. I had no good moral reasons: I just loved adventure, I loved the poetry of war, the poetry of chaos, and I found that there was a kind of grace in weaving between the bullets.”

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