Posts where this quotation is embeddedPeople: David GurteenCalling someone ignorant isn’t necessarily an insult. Ignorance is simply a lack of understanding. If we are ignorant of a subject, we have little, if any, information or knowledge about it.
We are ignorant about all sorts of things, but that does not make us stupid; we are just ignorant. This is a crucial distinction.
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