Ignorance

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A Cup of Tea

Nan-in, a Japanese master during the Meiji era (1868-1912), received a university professor who came to inquire about Zen.

Nan-in served tea. He poured his visitor’s cup full, and then kept on pouring.

The professor watched the overflow until he no longer could restrain himself. “It is overfull. No more will go in!”

“Like this cup,” Nan-in said, “you are full of your own opinions and speculations. How can I show you Zen unless you first empty your cup?”

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หอมกลิ่นความเจริญ

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My greatest hope is that humans create a self-sustaining city on Mars, In the vast universe, human civilization is like a faint little candle, like a little shimmering light in the void. When the sun expands one day and the Earth is no longer habitable, we can fly to a new home in a spaceship. If humans can inhabit other planets, it means that they have passed one of the conditions of the great screening of the universe, then we will become interplanetary citizens, and human civilization will be able to continue.

— Elon Musk

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Stupidity is a lack of intelligence, understanding, reason, or wit. It may be innate, assumed or reactive.

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by James Wildman

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

— Carl Sagan

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