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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."


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


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


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


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


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


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


"Against logic there is no armor like ignorance."


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


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


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


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


"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."


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


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


"Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance."


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


"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."


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


"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."


"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."


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


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


"Ah! destructive Ignorance, what shall be done to chase thee out of the World!"


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


"Ignorance has always been the weapon of tyrants; enlightenment the salvation of the free."


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