Fahrenheit 451 book help????????

Question

"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. "

i know what this means, but who said this? i can't seem to find it in the book..

thanks!

Answer 1

I read the the book, practically twice, but I don't even remember that passage. I'm guessing maybe Beatty could have said it, when he came to Montag's house that day he didn't go to work, and gave him the little speech. Check around those pages again.

Answer 2

the answer is somewhere inside this link.

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Fahrenheit_...

it's been so long since i read the book i can't remember who said what but this link puts everything in sections so perhaps you can work it out. x