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If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn.

If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn.

Ray Bradbury
Ignorance, Ifs
Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.51, Hamilton Books

You're afraid of making mistakes. Don't be. Mistakes can be profited by. Man, when I was young I shoved my ignorance in people's faces. They beat me with sticks. By the time I was forty my blunt instrument had been honed to a fine cutting point for me. If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn.

Ray Bradbury
Mistake, Ignorance, Cutting
Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.51, Hamilton Books

But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't last.

Ray Bradbury
Ignorance, People, World
Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.74, Hamilton Books

Garrett," said Stendahl, "do you know why I've done this to you? Because you burned Mr. Poe's books without really reading them. You took other people's advice that they needed burning. Otherwise you'd have realized what I was going to do to you when we came down here a moment ago. Ignorance is fatal, Mr. Garrett.

Ray Bradbury
Book, Reading, Ignorance
Ray Bradbury (2000). “Bradbury Stories”

I came on the old and best ways of writing through ignorance and experiment and was startled when truths leaped out of brushes like quail before gunshot.

Ray Bradbury
Writing, Ignorance, Way

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