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Ignorance Quotes
"A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance."
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"The principles of justice are chosen behind a veil of ignorance."
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"Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know."
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"I will not expose the ignorance of the faculty."
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"The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self."
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"No one could be more happy than a man who has never known affliction."
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"It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't."
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"Against logic there is no armor like ignorance."
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"Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it."
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"Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished."
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"A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance."
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"How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance."
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"Never let your persistence and passion turn into stubbornness and ignorance."
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"Where ignorance is bliss it's foolish to borrow your neighbor's newspaper."
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"Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!"
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"The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about."
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"You know, everybody's ignorant, just on different subjects."
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"Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head."
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"Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it."
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"The reason there's so much ignorance is that those who have it are so eager to share it."
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"Two kinds of blindness are easily combined so that those who do not see really appear to see what is not."
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"Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance."
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"Mystery is but another name for ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain!"
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"Gross ignorance is 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance."
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"To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance."
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"Ignorance per se is not nearly as dangerous as ignorance of ignorance."
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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."
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"Not knowing one's real Self is the greatest of maya (deceit; illusion). Once this ignorance is removed, the illusion departs."
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"The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism."
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"Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard."
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"To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant."
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