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Ignorance Quotes


"A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance."


"The principles of justice are chosen behind a veil of ignorance."


"Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know."


"The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self."


"I will not expose the ignorance of the faculty."



"Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it."


"How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance."


"It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't."



"No one could be more happy than a man who has never known affliction."


"Against logic there is no armor like ignorance."


"Ignorance per se is not nearly as dangerous as ignorance of ignorance."


"Never let your persistence and passion turn into stubbornness and ignorance."


"Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished."



"You know, everybody's ignorant, just on different subjects."


"Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!"



"The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about."


"Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it."



"Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance."


"Gross ignorance is 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance."


"The reason there's so much ignorance is that those who have it are so eager to share it."


"A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance."


"Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head."


"Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard."


"To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance."


"Where ignorance is bliss it's foolish to borrow your neighbor's newspaper."



"Two kinds of blindness are easily combined so that those who do not see really appear to see what is not."


"The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism."


"To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant."


"Mystery is but another name for ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain!"


"Not knowing one's real Self is the greatest of maya (deceit; illusion). Once this ignorance is removed, the illusion departs."


"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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