"To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance."

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"Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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"The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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"Definition of a zombie, full spectrum ignorance."

R. A. Delmonico, American Author

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"I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it."

Thomas Jefferson, American President

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"I think if you went back to the eighteenth century and you asked a fifteen year old boy, 'Would you like to marry a woman who has had plastic bags needlessly inserted into her breasts?', that fifteen year old boy would probably be like, 'what's plastic?'."

John Green, American Author

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"The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind."

H. L. Mencken, American Writer

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"It's better to be ignorant and live in bliss than know the truth and live in agony."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

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"Conscientious stupidity is a religion for most. Many will deny it, but it's those same people that find it easier to ignore the truth. This religion can only be followed by their humble ignorance. It's safe to assume, that this religion is an illusion of knowledge."

Lionel Suggs, American Writer

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"Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects."

Will Rogers, American Actor

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"Everybody is ignorant, Just on different subjects."

Will Rogers, American Actor

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"There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey."

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"The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it."

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"When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece."

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"Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it."

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"Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together."

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"Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth."

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"All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time."

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"All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul."

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"One of the major obstacles impeding any positive future change in our lives is that we are too busy with our current work or activity. Levi quit his tax-work, Peter stopped fishing at lake, Paul ceased being a priest. They all left their jobs because they thought it was necessary."

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"To speak and act truth with constancy and precision is nearly as difficult, and perhaps as meretorious, as to speak it under intimidation or penalty."

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