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Ignorance Quotes
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"Nothing is worse than active ignorance."
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action."
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge."
-Voltaire
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"There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil."
-Plato
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"Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with Ignorance."
-William Blake
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"I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him."
-Galileo Galilei
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"Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance is the death of knowledge."
-Alfred North Whitehead
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"I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know."
-Marcus Tullius Cicero
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"To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant."
-Amos Bronson Alcott
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"It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance."
-Saint Jerome
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"Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon and star."
-Confucius
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"It is better to conceal one's knowledge than to reveal one's ignorance."
-Spanish Proverb
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"Ignorance is not innocence but sin."
-Robert Browning
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"Better be ignorant of a matter than half know it."
-Publilius Syrus
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"The most violent element in society is ignorance."
-Emma Goldman
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"Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities."
-George Eliot
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"Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything."
-Sydney Smith
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"We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders."
-Maya Angelou
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"There is no means by which men so powerfully elude their ignorance, disguise it from themselves and from others as by words."
-Gamaliel Bradford
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"It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile."
-Adam Hastings
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"What's encouraging about meditation is that even if we shut down, we can no longer shut down in ignorance. We see very clearly that we're closing off. That in itself begins to illuminate the darkness of ignorance."
-Pema Chodron
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"Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing."
-Irene Peter
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"Against logic there is no armor like ignorance."
-Laurence J. Peter
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"Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it."
-Thomas Paine
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"My whole career can be summed up with 'Ignorance is bliss.' When you do not know better, you do not really worry about failing."
-Jeff Foxworthy
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"Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago."
-Bernard Berenson
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"It is better to confess ignorance than provide it."
-Homer Hickam
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