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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.

There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
I Hate You, Ignorance, People

Unfortunately, 19th-century scientists were just as ready to jump to the conclusion that any guess about nature was an obvious fact, as were 17th-century sectarians to jump to the conclusion that any guess about Scripture was the obvious explanation . . . . and this clumsy collision of two very impatient forms of ignorance was known as the quarrel of Science and Religion.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Ignorance, Two, Scripture

Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Wisdom, Fun, Ignorance
"The Speaker", December 15, 1900.

The real argument against aristocracy is that it always means the rule of the ignorant. For the most dangerous of all forms of ignorance is ignorance of work.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Real, Ignorance, Mean

One of the deepest and strangest of all human moods is the mood which will suddenly strike us perhaps in a garden at night, or deep in sloping meadows, the feeling that every flower and leaf has just uttered something stupendously direct and important, and that we have by a prodigy of imbecility not heard or understood it. There is a certain poetic value, and that a genuine one, in this sense of having missed the full meaning of things. There is beauty, not only in wisdom, but in this dazed and dramatic ignorance.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Flower, Ignorance, Knowledge
"Robert Browning". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1903.

There is a certain poetic value, and that a genuine one, in this sense of having missed the full meaning of things. There is beauty, not only in wisdom, but in this dazed and dramatic ignorance.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Ignorance, Poetic, Dramatic
"Robert Browning". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1903.

And I will add this point of merely personal experience of humanity: when men have a real explanation they explain it, eagerly and copiously and in common speech, as Huxley freely gave it when he thought he had it. When they have no explanation to offer, they give short dignified replies, disdainful of the ignorance of the multitude.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Real, Ignorance, Men
"Doubts About Darwinism". The Illustrated London News, July 17, 1920.

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