“Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.”
“There is no shame in not knowing something. The shame is in not being willing to learn.”
“There is no shame in being hungry for another person. There is no shame in wanting very much to share your life with somebody.”
“How I hate ignorance! Caliban’s ignorance, my ignorance, the world’s ignorance! Oh, I could learn and learn and learn and learn. I could cry, I want to learn so much.”
“We resent being faced with facts we'd prefer to ignore as much as being wrongly accused of doing something we haven't.”
“I said I *liked* being half-educated; you were so much more *surprised* at everything when you were ignorant.”