"Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves."

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I know everything I need to know already," Rigg always said... To which Father always replied,"See how ignorant you are? You don't even know why you need to know the things you don't know yet." "So tell me," said Rigg. "I would but you're too ignorant to understand the reasons why your ignorance is a fatal disease.

— Orson Scott Card