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Ignorance Quotes

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"Ignorance is not bliss - it is oblivion."
Philip Wylie
"Ignorance is not bliss - it is oblivion."
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"A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance."
Gian Carlo Menotti
"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."
John Rawls
"The principles of justice are chosen behind a veil of ignorance."
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"The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self."
Baruch Spinoza
"The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self."
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"Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know."
Aldous Huxley
"Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know."
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"Ignorance is not innocence but sin."
Robert Browning Hamilton
"Ignorance is not innocence but sin."
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"I will not expose the ignorance of the faculty."
Nancy Cartwright
"I will not expose the ignorance of the faculty."
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"Ignorance is a terrible thing. It causes families to lose their center and causes people to lose their control. Ignorance knows no binds. Old people, young people, middle-aged, black, white, can all be ignorant."
Maya Angelou
"Ignorance is a terrible thing. It causes families to lose their center and causes people to lose their control. Ignorance knows no binds. Old people, young people, middle-aged, black, white, can all be ignorant."
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"Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished."
Jeremy Bentham
"Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished."
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"Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!"
Leonardo da Vinci
"Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!"
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"How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance."
Petrarch
"How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance."
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"His ignorance is encyclopedic."
Abba Eban
"His ignorance is encyclopedic."
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"It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't."
Mignon McLaughlin
"It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't."
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"Acquaint yourself with your own ignorance."
Isaac Watts
"Acquaint yourself with your own ignorance."
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"There is no slavery but ignorance."
Robert Green Ingersoll
"There is no slavery but ignorance."
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"Prejudice is the child of ignorance."
William Hazlitt
"Prejudice is the child of ignorance."
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"Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise."
Thomas Gray
"Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise."
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"Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance."
William Gaddis
"Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance."
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"One's ignorance is one's chief asset."
Wallace Stevens
"One's ignorance is one's chief asset."
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"Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil."
Plato
"Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil."
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"No one could be more happy than a man who has never known affliction."
Fay Weldon
"No one could be more happy than a man who has never known affliction."
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"It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile."
Sting
"It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile."
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"Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head."
Michel de Montaigne
"Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head."
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"The most ignorant of all people is a person who is self assured in his or her premature decisions."
Auliq Ice
"The most ignorant of all people is a person who is self assured in his or her premature decisions."
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"Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it."
Thomas Paine
"Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it."
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"As for me, all I know is that I know nothing."
Socrates
"As for me, all I know is that I know nothing."
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"Against logic there is no armor like ignorance."
Laurence J. Peter
"Against logic there is no armor like ignorance."
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"Never let your persistence and passion turn into stubbornness and ignorance."
Anthony J. D'Angelo
"Never let your persistence and passion turn into stubbornness and ignorance."
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"Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it."
Heraclitus
"Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it."
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"When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds."
Will Rogers
"When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds."
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"A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance."
Anatole France
"A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance."
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"I consider nothing low but ignorance, vice, and meanness, characteristics generally found where the animal propensities predominate over the higher sentiments."
William John Wills
"I consider nothing low but ignorance, vice, and meanness, characteristics generally found where the animal propensities predominate over the higher sentiments."
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"The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about."
Wayne Dyer
"The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about."
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"Mystery is but another name for ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain!"
Tryon Edwards
"Mystery is but another name for ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain!"
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"Ignorance has always been the weapon of tyrants; enlightenment the salvation of the free."
Bill Richardson
"Ignorance has always been the weapon of tyrants; enlightenment the salvation of the free."
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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."
Dada Bhagwan
"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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"Gross ignorance is 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance."
Bennett Cerf
"Gross ignorance is 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance."
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"Ignorance per se is not nearly as dangerous as ignorance of ignorance."
Sydney J. Harris
"Ignorance per se is not nearly as dangerous as ignorance of ignorance."
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"You have been trapped in the inescapable net of ruin by your own want of sense."
Aeschylus
"You have been trapped in the inescapable net of ruin by your own want of sense."
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"Where ignorance is bliss it's foolish to borrow your neighbor's newspaper."
Kin Hubbard
"Where ignorance is bliss it's foolish to borrow your neighbor's newspaper."
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"The little I know I owe to my ignorance."
Sacha Guitry
"The little I know I owe to my ignorance."
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"Ah! destructive Ignorance, what shall be done to chase thee out of the World!"
Cotton Mather
"Ah! destructive Ignorance, what shall be done to chase thee out of the World!"
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"The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism."
William Osler
"The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism."
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"To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant."
Amos Bronson Alcott
"To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant."
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"My teachers told me: Question everything; take nothing for granted. I question nothing, I take everything for granted."
Marty Rubin
"My teachers told me: Question everything; take nothing for granted. I question nothing, I take everything for granted."
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"The reason there's so much ignorance is that those who have it are so eager to share it."
Frank Howard Clark
"The reason there's so much ignorance is that those who have it are so eager to share it."
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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."
Crystal Eastman
"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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"You know, everybody's ignorant, just on different subjects."
Will Rogers
"You know, everybody's ignorant, just on different subjects."
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"The more we study the more we discover our ignorance."
Percy Bysshe Shelley
"The more we study the more we discover our ignorance."
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"To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance."
Jeremy Taylor
"To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance."
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