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Ignorance Quotes
"The principles of justice are chosen behind a veil of ignorance."
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"Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished."
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"A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance."
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"It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't."
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"Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it."
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"Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!"
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"Ignorance has always been the weapon of tyrants; enlightenment the salvation of the free."
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"Never let your persistence and passion turn into stubbornness and ignorance."
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"Ignorance per se is not nearly as dangerous as ignorance of ignorance."
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"I will not expose the ignorance of the faculty."
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"Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance."
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"Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it."
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"Where ignorance is bliss it's foolish to borrow your neighbor's newspaper."
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"Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know."
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"No one could be more happy than a man who has never known affliction."
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"Gross ignorance is 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance."
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"A person must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere."
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"So the paradox goes: No man who is really ignorant is ever aware that he is ignorant. That is its finest, most faulty manifestation; there can be no true ignorance without first some claim of intelligence or consciousness, or superiority or enlightenment."
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"The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about."
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"Ah! destructive Ignorance, what shall be done to chase thee out of the World!"
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"To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant."
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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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"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."
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"Admiration is the daughter of ignorance."
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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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"A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance."
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"Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding."
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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."
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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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"Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head."
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