"The little I know, I owe it to my ignorance."

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"I do not know whether it is the view of the Court that a judge must be thick-skinned or just thick-headed, but nothing in my experience or observation confirms the idea that he is insensitive to publi…"

— Robert H. Jackson

Law1892–1954

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"He brought the first movie camera from Germany, but nobody knows what happened to it afterwards. Maybe it is lying with some antique collector. There were absolutely no film-making facilities - produc…"

— Dadasaheb Phalke

Entertainment1870–1944

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"Lucky fools do not bear the slightest suspicion that they may be lucky fools - by definition, they do not know that they belong to such a category."

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Mathematics1960

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"Do you know what damnation can be, Sir? It can be a state of permanent caution, making one chronically unable to risk anything, even a risk which might save one from extinction."

— Michael Moorcock

Literature1939

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