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The challenge of `perpetual novelty` demands a dichotomy between daring curiosity and steadfast tradition--a reconciliation that invigorates growth even as it threatened defined construct.
Author:
Eliana Cross
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Sometimes mastery isn't learned but unearthed, like a gem trembling beneath the weight of intentionality yet yearning for a chance and time to emerge.
Author:
Sophia Morton
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To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence
Author:
Mark Twain
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In the pursuit of knowledge, embrace the power of doubt as a guiding light through the shadow of ignorance.
Author:
Maya Patel
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Ignorance is not bliss - it is oblivion.
Author:
Philip Wylie
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If we bring not the good courage of minds covetous of truth, and truth only, prepared to hear all things, and decide upon all things, according to evidence, we should do more wisely to sit down contented in ignorance, than to bestir ourselves only to reap disappointment.
Author:
Frances Wright
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If they exert it not for good, they will for evil; if they advance not knowledge, they will perpetuate ignorance.
Author:
Frances Wright
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We receive the truths of science by compulsion. Nothing but ignorance is able to resist them.
Author:
Chauncey Wright
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Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts; for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance.
Author:
William Wirt
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Ignorance breeds fear.
Author:
Mike Wilson
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I consider nothing low but ignorance, vice, and meanness, characteristics generally found where the animal propensities predominate over the higher sentiments.
Author:
William Wills
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I really wish there was some big brother conspiracy theory. I just think it's the ignorance of trying to make a dollar. That's what the networks have done and will continue to do. If anyone doesn't think that this is about making money, then they're crazy.
Author:
Montel Williams
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Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Author:
Alfred Whitehead
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My family and I held no hatred for those people because we realized they were victims of their own ignorance.
Author:
Ryan White
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It is hardly fair to accuse us of ignorance when it was made a crime under the former order of things to learn enough about letters to even read the Word of God.
Author:
George White
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We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.
Author:
John Wheeler
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There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is youthful ignorance of the fact that the middle aged are still alive.
Author:
Jessamyn West
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
Author:
Warren Weaver
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Acquaint yourself with your own ignorance.
Author:
Isaac Watts
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Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?
Author:
Bill Watterson
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It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous.
Author:
Charles Warner
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It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
Author:
Voltaire
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The truth is that our race survived ignorance; it is our scientific genius that will do us in.
Author:
Stephen Vizinczey
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Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!
Author:
Leonardo Vinci
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Envy comes from people's ignorance of, or lack of belief in, their own gifts.
Author:
Jean Vanier
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All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure.
Author:
Mark Twain
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The realization of ignorance is the first act of knowing.
Author:
Jean Toomer
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I would point out that the cultural advance of these people has been suppressed in the past and continues to be suppressed in the present by policies designed to keep them in ignorance.
Author:
Hideki Tojo
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Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind.
Author:
John Tillotson
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Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.
Author:
Thucydides
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True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
Author:
Henry Thoreau
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Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.
Author:
Henry Thoreau
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Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.
Author:
Saint Teresa
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It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it; and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it not.
Author:
Jeremy Taylor
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To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.
Author:
Jeremy Taylor
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Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.
Author:
Lytton Strachey
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In the scattered settlements of this Diocese, schools and Churches are of necessity for many years few in number, and multitudes of both sexes are growing up in great ignorance.
Author:
John Strachan
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Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
Author:
W. Stone
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It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile.
Author:
Sting
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I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
Author:
Adlai Stevenson
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Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.
Author:
Adlai Stevenson
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One's ignorance is one's chief asset.
Author:
Wallace Stevens
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In a World where people are surrounded by darkness, ignorance and fear, it is a sign of hope to be celebrating Islam's message of peace and light, and the last great Messenger, born and chosen to deliver them to all mankind.
Author:
Cat Stevens
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Privacy under what circumstance? Privacy at home under what circumstances? You have more privacy if everyone's illiterate, but you wouldn't really call that privacy. That's ignorance.
Author:
Bruce Sterling
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The level of ignorance is declining, and the ability to accumulate data and manipulate it for various ends is increasing.
Author:
Bruce Sterling
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Chance is a name for our ignorance.
Author:
Leslie Stephen
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The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
Author:
Baruch Spinoza
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A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
Author:
Herbert Spencer
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A jury is a group of twelve people of average ignorance.
Author:
Herbert Spencer
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Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
Author:
Herbert Spencer
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Of all the wastes of human ignorance perhaps the most extravagant and costly to human growth has been the waste of the distinctive powers of womanhood after the child-bearing age.
Author:
Anna Spencer
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It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.
Author:
Thomas Sowell
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But what sin is to the moralist and crime to the jurist so to the scientific man is ignorance.
Author:
Frederick Soddy
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On our plane knowledge and ignorance are the immemorial adversaries.
Author:
Frederick Soddy
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Scientific men can hardly escape the charge of ignorance with regard to the precise effect of the impact of modern science upon the mode of living of the people and upon their civilisation.
Author:
Frederick Soddy
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
Author:
Socrates
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My top most priority is to deal with India's massive social and economic problems, so that chronic poverty, ignorance and disease can be conquered in a reasonably short period of time.
Author:
Manmohan Singh
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I want to fight poverty and ignorance and give opportunity to those people who are locked out.
Author:
Russell Simmons
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The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.
Author:
Percy Shelley
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Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
Author:
George Shaw
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Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
Author:
William Shakespeare
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I say there is no darkness but ignorance.
Author:
William Shakespeare
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There is no darkness but ignorance.
Author:
William Shakespeare
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Most criticism of advertising is written in ignorance of what actually happens inside these agencies.
Author:
Michael Schudson
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Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.
Author:
George Santayana
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When motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning, not the result of ignorance or accident, its children will become the foundation of a new race.
Author:
Margaret Sanger
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We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.
Author:
Carl Sagan
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Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.
Author:
William Safire
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Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.
Author:
Saadi
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Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.
Author:
Bertrand Russell
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To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.
Author:
John Ruskin
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America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.
Author:
Will Rogers
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When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds.
Author:
Will Rogers
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All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance.
Author:
Will Rogers
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Ignorance has always been the weapon of tyrants; enlightenment the salvation of the free.
Author:
Bill Richardson
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We can choose between the future and the past, between reason and ignorance, between true compassion and mere ideology.
Author:
Ron Reagan
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Now, ignorance is one thing, ignorance can be cured. But many of the Republican leaders opposing this research know better.
Author:
Ron Reagan
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The principles of justice are chosen behind a veil of ignorance.
Author:
John Rawls
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Ignorance is the mother of all evils.
Author:
Francois Rabelais
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Ideas are only lethal if you suppress and don't discuss them. Ignorance is not bliss, it's stupid. Banning books shows you don't trust your kids to think and you don't trust yourself to be able to talk to them.
Author:
Anna Quindlen
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Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance.
Author:
Robert Quillen
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Ignorance is not bliss, but in my case, that was.
Author:
Victoria Principal
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They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.
Author:
Terry Pratchett
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Oh, the ignorance of us upon whom Providence did not sufficiently smile to permit us to be born in New England.
Author:
Horace Porter
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Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.
Author:
Karl Popper
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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
Author:
Plato
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Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.
Author:
Plato
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Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.
Author:
Plato
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Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.
Author:
Plato
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To remove ignorance is an important branch of benevolence.
Author:
Ann Plato
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A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission.
Author:
Elizabeth Phelps
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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
Author:
Petrarch
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Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.
Author:
Laurence Peter
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Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing.
Author:
Irene Peter
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Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.
Author:
William Penn
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No one should ever say that it was my ignorance if I did or showed forth anything however small according to God's good pleasure; but let this be your conclusion and let it so be thought, that - as is the perfect truth - it was the gift of God.
Author:
Saint Patrick
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As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.
Author:
Blaise Pascal
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Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.
Author:
Blaise Pascal
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The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.
Author:
Blaise Pascal
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Information can bring you choices and choices bring power - educate yourself about your options and choices. Never remain in the dark of ignorance.
Author:
Joy Page
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The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.
Author:
William Osler
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War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
Author:
George Orwell
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Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
Author:
P. O'Rourke
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The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.
Author:
Gerard Nerval
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Ignorance is always afraid of change.
Author:
Jawaharlal Nehru
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Owing to ignorance of the rope the rope appears to be a snake; owing to ignorance of the Self the transient state arises of the individualized, limited, phenomenal aspect of the Self.
Author:
Guru Nanak
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We are born knowing nothing and with much striving we learn but a little; yet all the while we are bound by laws that hearken to no plea of ignorance, and measure out their rewards and punishments with calm indifference.
Author:
Paul More
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I have been judged to be a pessimist but what abyss of ignorance and low egoism is not hidden in one who thinks that Man is the god of himself and that his future can only be triumphant?
Author:
Eugenio Montale
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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
Author:
Michel Montaigne
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So far as I know, there were no pains taken to preserve secrecy on this subject; that is, I saw no attempt made to keep any of the inmates of the Convent in ignorance of the murder of children.
Author:
Maria Monk
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All around me insisted that my doubts proved only my own ignorance and sinfulness; that they knew by experience they would soon give place to true knowledge, and an advance in religion; and I felt something like indecision.
Author:
Maria Monk
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Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.
Author:
Addison Mizner
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Fullness of knowledge always means some understanding of the depths of our ignorance; and that is always conducive to humility and reverence.
Author:
Robert Millikan
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The Age of Information, Has turned out to be the Age of Ignorance.
Author:
Mark Miller
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In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.
Author:
Henry Miller
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A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance.
Author:
Gian Menotti
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Consciousness of myself, combined with complete ignorance of everything that does not fall within my sphere of thinking, is the most telling proof of my substantiality outside God, of my original existence.
Author:
Moses Mendelssohn
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Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
Author:
H. Mencken
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Backward is just not a natural direction for Americans to look - historical ignorance remains a national characteristic.
Author:
Larry McMurtry
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It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
Author:
Mignon McLaughlin
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People's ignorance really pisses me off. Stupidity is when you can't help it-ignorance is when you choose not to understand something.
Author:
Sarah McLachlan
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One column of truth cannot hold an institution of ideas from falling into ignorance. It is wiser that a person of prudence and purpose save his strength for battles that can be won.
Author:
Bryant McGill
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The huge problem in our society is the enormous ignorance of the ideas that underlie modern art.
Author:
Thom Mayne
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Ah! destructive Ignorance, what shall be done to chase thee out of the World!
Author:
Cotton Mather
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The hope that poverty and ignorance may gradually be extinguished, derives indeed much support from the steady progress of the working classes during the nineteenth century.
Author:
Alfred Marshall
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What I love about the East End is that there's a great perseverance, determination and courage. What I dislike about it is that there is sometimes a celebration of ignorance.
Author:
Eddie Marsan
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I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but ignorance.
Author:
Christopher Marlowe
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There is no sin but ignorance.
Author:
Christopher Marlowe
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Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
Author:
James Madison
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I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
Author:
Harold MacMillan
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One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.
Author:
Robert Lynd
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The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
Author:
Bela Lugosi
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I have to plead basic ignorance of most new jazz artists here.
Author:
Gary Lucas
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Curiosity killed the cat, but where human beings are concerned, the only thing a healthy curiosity can kill is ignorance.
Author:
Harry Lorayne
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Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.
Author:
Dalai Lama
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It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.
Author:
Joseph Krutch
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Statistics: the mathematical theory of ignorance.
Author:
Morris Kline
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Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Author:
Martin King, Jr.
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Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Author:
Martin King, Jr.
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The darkest thing about Africa has always been our ignorance of it.
Author:
George Kimble
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The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future.
Author:
John Keynes
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A person must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.
Author:
Charles Kettering
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The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.
Author:
John Kennedy
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The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.
Author:
John Kennedy
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I'm against ignorance.
Author:
Herman Kahn
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All comparisons between America's current place in the world and anything legitimately called an empire in the past reveal ignorance and confusion about any reasonable meaning of the concept empire, especially the comparison with the Roman Empire.
Author:
Donald Kagan
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Art hath an enemy called Ignorance.
Author:
Ben Jonson
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The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.
Author:
Lyndon Johnson
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Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
Author:
Thomas Jefferson
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I believe that ignorance is the root of all evil. And that no one knows the truth.
Author:
Molly Ivins
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I perceive two things in Scotland of the most fearful omen: ignorance of theological truth, and a readiness to pride themselves in and boast of it.
Author:
Edward Irving
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There is no slavery but ignorance.
Author:
Robert Ingersoll
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Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows.
Author:
Robert Ingersoll
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The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it.
Author:
Robert Ingersoll
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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.
Author:
Aldous Huxley
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Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance.
Author:
Victor Hugo
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Where ignorance is bliss it's foolish to borrow your neighbor's newspaper.
Author:
Kin Hubbard
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The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.
Author:
Elbert Hubbard
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The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
Author:
Elbert Hubbard
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In practice, socialism didn't work. But socialism could never have worked because it is based on false premises about human psychology and society, and gross ignorance of human economy.
Author:
David Horowitz
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I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation.
Author:
Anthony Hope
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Idealism, alas, does not protect one from ignorance, dogmatism, and foolishness.
Author:
Sidney Hook
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If ignorance paid dividends, most Americans could make a fortune out of what they don't know about economics.
Author:
Luther Hodges
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There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the later ignorance.
Author:
Hippocrates
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Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
Author:
Hippocrates
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People talk about revelation, and say it has ceased; but what ignorance it bespeaks, when man knows not the least thing on earth without revelation.
Author:
Elias Hicks
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The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance.
Author:
Herodotus
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Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.
Author:
Heraclitus
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Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
Author:
William Hazlitt
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Why should we, however, in economics, have to plead ignorance of the sort of facts on which, in the case of a physical theory, a scientist would certainly be expected to give precise information?
Author:
Friedrich Hayek
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Ignorance per se is not nearly as dangerous as ignorance of ignorance.
Author:
Sydney Harris
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In the clashes between ignorance and intelligence, ignorance is generally the aggressor.
Author:
Paul Harris
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Ignorance is a menace to peace.
Author:
Paul Harris
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To attempt to superimpose its views through the exercise of force, is seldom the part of intelligence; it is frequently the part of ignorance.
Author:
Paul Harris
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Ignorance is not innocence but sin.
Author:
Robert Hamilton
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It was easy to present figures demonstrating the contrast between lead work in the United States under conditions of neglect and ignorance, and comparable work in England and Germany, under intelligent control.
Author:
Alice Hamilton
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Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.
Author:
Edward Halifax
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Uncertainty and fear and ignorance about immigrants, about people who are different, has a history as old as our Nation.
Author:
Luis Gutierrez
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The little I know I owe to my ignorance.
Author:
Sacha Guitry
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Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance.
Author:
Graham Greene
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Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.
Author:
Thomas Gray
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Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.
Author:
Baltasar Gracian
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The most violent element in society is ignorance.
Author:
Emma Goldman
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Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.
Author:
Johann Goethe
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Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance.
Author:
Arnold Glasow
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It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge.
Author:
Arnold Glasgow
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There is no sinfulness in the will and affections without some error in the understanding. All lusts which a natural man lives in, are lusts of ignorance.
Author:
George Gillespie
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I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.
Author:
Khalil Gibran
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Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges.
Author:
Katharine Gerould
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It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.
Author:
Paul Gauguin
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People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.
Author:
Bill Gates
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Until as recently as November of 1966, I had complete faith in the Warren Report. Of course, my faith in the Report was grounded in ignorance, since I had never read it.
Author:
Jim Garrison
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Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.
Author:
Mohandas Gandhi
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I am astonished each time I come to the U.S. by the ignorance of a high percentage of the population, which knows almost nothing about Latin America or about the world. It's quite blind and deaf to anything that may happen outside the frontiers of the U.S.
Author:
Eduardo Galeano
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A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance; but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books.
Author:
John Galbraith
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Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance.
Author:
William Gaddis
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The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.
Author:
Benjamin Franklin
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Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.
Author:
Benjamin Franklin
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A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Author:
Anatole France
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Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.
Author:
Jean Fontaine
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Here is true immorality: ignorance and stupidity; the devil is nothing but this. His name is Legion.
Author:
Gustave Flaubert
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
Author:
Gustave Flaubert
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It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn't get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.
Author:
Richard Feynman
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It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.
Author:
Enrico Fermi
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Ignorance is never better than knowledge.
Author:
Enrico Fermi
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Without feeling abashed by my ignorance, I confess that I am absolutely unable to say. In the absence of an appearance of learning, my answer has at least one merit, that of perfect sincerity.
Author:
Jean Fabre
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Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.
Author:
Euripides
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In a world busy with certainties, it is within the embrace of philosophical silence that thoughts shed their masks and reveal bold truths shimmering beneath chaotic noise.
Author:
Evelyn Brooks
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Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human.
Author:
Desiderius Erasmus
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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
Author:
George Eliot
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The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.
Author:
George Eliot
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Mystery is but another name for ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain!
Author:
Tryon Edwards
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A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.
Author:
Bob Edwards
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His ignorance is encyclopedic.
Author:
Abba Eban
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The average man has a carefully cultivated ignorance about household matters - from what to do with the crumbs to the grocer's telephone number - a sort of cheerful inefficiency which protects him.
Author:
Crystal Eastman
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The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.
Author:
Wayne Dyer
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Author:
Will Durant
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
Author:
Will Durant
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Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Author:
Will Durant
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I really think that living is the process of going from complete certainty to complete ignorance.
Author:
Richard Dreyfuss
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In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance.
Author:
Theodore Dreiser
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His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.
Author:
Arthur Doyle
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Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
Author:
Frederick Douglass
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The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
Author:
Benjamin Disraeli
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He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.
Author:
Benjamin Disraeli
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I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance.
Author:
Diogenes
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Ignorance is kind of bliss.
Author:
Jackie DeShannon
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Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.
Author:
Guy Debord
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It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.
Author:
Richard Dawkins
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Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
Author:
Charles Darwin
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We Hoosiers hold to some quaint notions. Some might say we 'cling' to them, though not out of fear or ignorance. We believe in paying our bills. We have kept our state in the black throughout the recent unpleasantness, while cutting rather than raising taxes, by practicing an old tribal ritual - we spend less money than we take in.
Author:
Mitch Daniels
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Never let your persistence and passion turn into stubbornness and ignorance.
Author:
Anthony D'Angelo
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Ignorance is never out of style. It was in fashion yesterday, it is the rage today and it will set the pace tomorrow.
Author:
Frank Dane
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'God's plan' is often a front for men's plans and a cover for inadequacy, ignorance, and evil.
Author:
Mary Daly
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Ignorance is the primary source of all misery and vice.
Author:
Victor Cousin
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Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other.
Author:
James Cooper
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Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.
Author:
Cyril Connolly
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Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
Author:
Confucius
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Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
Author:
Samuel Coleridge
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Ignorance is the mother of devotion.
Author:
Dean Cole
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It is not enough to be well-intentioned; one must strive to put those intentions into action in a capable way. One must consider the effect his actions will have on others. Looked at like this, to persist in ignorance is itself dishonorable.
Author:
Andrew Cohen
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The reason there's so much ignorance is that those who have it are so eager to share it.
Author:
Frank Clark
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The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there it is.
Author:
Winston Churchill
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Ignorance is the mother of admiration.
Author:
George Chapman
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We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.
Author:
William Channing
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Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.
Author:
William Channing
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Gross ignorance is 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance.
Author:
Bennett Cerf
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I will not expose the ignorance of the faculty.
Author:
Nancy Cartwright
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I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
Author:
Thomas Carlyle
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The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.
Author:
Albert Camus
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God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray.
Author:
John Calvin
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The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.
Author:
Samuel Butler
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If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.
Author:
Leo Buscaglia
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If not bliss, ignorance can at least be fun.
Author:
Carter Burwell
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True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.
Author:
Abigail Buren
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When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results.
Author:
Warren Buffett
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Is it ignorance or apathy? Hey, I don't know and I don't care.
Author:
Jimmy Buffett
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An ignorance of means may minister to greatness, but an ignorance of aims make it impossible to be great at all.
Author:
Elizabeth Browning
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There is no stopping the world's tendency to throw off imposed restraints, the religious authority that is based on the ignorance of the many, the political authority that is based on the knowledge of the few.
Author:
Van Brooks
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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
Author:
Christian Bovee
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With attention deficit democracy, I am trying to wake up people to how the combination of mass ignorance, fear mongering by the government, and lying politicians is putting our entire system of government to a death spiral.
Author:
James Bovard
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The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.
Author:
Daniel Boorstin
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In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better.
Author:
Edward Bono
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If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
Author:
Derek Bok
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Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.
Author:
Bodhidharma
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I don't think you can ever regain your ignorance.
Author:
Carla Bley
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Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart.
Author:
Countess Blessington
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To act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the tides. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other.
Author:
Helena Blavatsky
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I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance.
Author:
Ruben Blades
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The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.
Author:
Ambrose Bierce
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Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
Author:
Ambrose Bierce
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Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.
Author:
Ambrose Bierce
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Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens.
Author:
William Beveridge
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Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible.
Author:
Isaiah Berlin
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An ignorance of Marx is as frequent among Marxists as an ignorance of Christ is among Catholics.
Author:
Jose Bergamin
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Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.
Author:
Jeremy Bentham
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Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.
Author:
Robert Benchley
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A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
Author:
Saul Bellow
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Be ignorance thy choice, where knowledge leads to woe.
Author:
James Beattie
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The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are all blindly adopted, the second willfully preferred.
Author:
George Bancroft
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It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
Author:
James Baldwin
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The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly.
Author:
Richard Bach
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Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.
Author:
Mary Astell
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Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.
Author:
Francis Assisi
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If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
Author:
Isaac Asimov
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To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
Author:
Isaac Asimov
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Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.
Author:
Isaac Asimov
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I could never accept findings based almost exclusively on mathematics. It ain't ignorance that causes all the trouble in this world. It's the things people know that ain't so.
Author:
Edwin Armstrong
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It ain't ignorance that causes all the trouble in this world. It's the things people know that ain't so.
Author:
Edwin Armstrong
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Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.
Author:
Maya Angelou
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We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.
Author:
Maya Angelou
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My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.
Author:
Maya Angelou
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To try to write a grand cosmical drama leads necessarily to myth. To try to let knowledge substitute ignorance in increasingly larger regions of space and time is science.
Author:
Hannes Alfven
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To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
Author:
Amos Alcott
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True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.
Author:
Akhenaton
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Cognitive biases shape not just our perceptions but the ethics entwined within our decisions, blurring the lines between intent and justification, while urging us towards introspection.
Author:
Eric Tempest
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All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.
Author:
John Adams
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Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
Author:
Henry Adams
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There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.
Author:
Lord Acton
