It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance; for it requires knowledge to perceive it and therefore he that can perceive it hath it not.
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Jeremy Taylor
Nothing is worse than active ignorance.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind.
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John Tillotson
Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.
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Laurence J. Peter
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.
~ Mark Twain
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
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Henry David Thoreau
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.
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Maya Angelou
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
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Mignon McLaughlin
Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.
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Plato
Better be ignorant of a matter than half know it.
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Publilius Syrus
There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ignorance is not innocence but sin.
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Robert Browning
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.
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Saadi
Gross ignorance: 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance.
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Bennett Cerf
The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
~ Socrates
It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
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Saint Jerome
It was a childish ignorance, But now 'tis little joy To know I'm further off from heaven Than when I was a boy.
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Thomas Hood
Ignorance, madam, pure ignorance.
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Samuel Johnson
Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.
~ Aldous Huxley
The living man who does not learn, is dark, dark, like one walking in the night.
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Ming Lum Paou Keen
Who ne'er knew salt, or heard the billows roar.
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Homer
Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is worth more.
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Jean de la Fontaine
A man may live long, and die at last in ignorance of many truths, which his mind was capable of knowing, and that with certainty.
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John Locke
The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.
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Sir William Osler
Be ignorance thy choice, where knowledge leads to woe.
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James Beattie
In extraordinary events ignorance of their causes produces astonishment.
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Cicero
Through ignorance of what is good and what is bad, the life of men is greatly perplexed.
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Cicero
But let a man know that there are things to be known, of which he is ignorant, and it is so much carved out of his domain of universal knowledge.
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Horace Mann
I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.
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Cicero
Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge, but passes into it through an intermediate state of obscurity, even as night into day through twilight.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Mr. Kremlin himself was distinguished for ignorance, for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.
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Benjamin Disraeli
For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
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John Dryden
For "ignorance is the mother of devotion," as all the world knows.
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Robert Burton
The truest characters of ignorance Are vanity, and pride, and annoyance.
~
Samuel Butler
His ignorance is encyclopedic.
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John Dryden
And his best riches, ignorance of wealth.
~
Oliver Goldsmith
Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.
~
William Safire
An American astronomer and the founder of extragalactic astronomy.
He was fascinated by science and mysterious new worlds from an early age.
Hubble had also devised a classification system for the various galaxies he observed, sorting them by
shape, content, distance and brightness. He noticed redshifts in the emission of light from the galaxies...
(1889-1953)
Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.
~ Edwin Hubble
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
~ Albert Einstein
A thought is an idea in transit.
~ PythagorasMore Proverbs
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