Even the ignorant may appear very worthy,
If they keep silent before the learned.
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Verse XLI.3Tiruvalluvar
Even the ignorant may appear very worthy,
If they keep silent before the learned.Thiruvalluvar
The specialist serves as a striking concrete example of the species, making clear to us the radical nature of the novelty. For, previously, men could be divided simply into the learned and the ignorant, those more or less the one, and those more or less the other. But your specialist cannot be brought in under either of these two categories. He is not learned , for he is formally ignorant of all that does not enter into his speciality; but neither is he ignorant, because he is "a scientist," and "knows" very well his own tiny portion of the universe. We shall have to say that he is a learned ignoramus, which is a very serious matter, as it implies that he is a person who is ignorant, not in the fashion of the ignorant man, but with an the petulance of one who is learned in his own special line.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
It is the semi-learned who scorn the ignorant; the learned know too much about them for that.
Henry S. Haskins
If the ignorant keeps silent, people would not differ.
Muhammad al-Taqi
The conscience of an artist worthy of the name is like an incurable disease which causes him endless torment but occasionally fills him with silent joy...
Georges Rouault
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