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Ignorance Quotes
"The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism."
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"Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard."
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"The more we study the more we discover our ignorance."
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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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"Israel of the coastal plain, where eight out of ten Israeli Jews live far removed from the occupied territories, from the fiery Jerusalem, from the religious and nationalistic conflicts, is unknown to the outside world, almost unknown to itself."
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"A person must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere."
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"Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding."
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"True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance."
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"To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance."
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"Ignorance is the primary source of all misery and vice."
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"Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance."
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"The darkest thing about Africa has always been our ignorance of it."
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"Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other."
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"A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad."
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"It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous."
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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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"Ignorance is not bliss, but in my case, that was."
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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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"Now, ignorance is one thing, ignorance can be cured. But many of the Republican leaders opposing this research know better."
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"Statistics: the mathematical theory of ignorance."
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"A straight face is an ignorant man's attempt to appear knowledgeable."
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"Some social ills are preserved by the common misbelief that things such as ignorance, greed, and stupidity do not have the stamina required to reach old age."
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"Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious."
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"The less people know, the more stubbornly they know it."
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"The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind."
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"Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects."
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"I think if you went back to the eighteenth century and you asked a fifteen year old boy, 'Would you like to marry a woman who has had plastic bags needlessly inserted into her breasts?', that fifteen year old boy would probably be like, 'what's plastic?'."
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