Ignorance
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There is no darkness but ignorance.

William Shakespeare

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The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Winston Churchill

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Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.

P. J. O'Rourke

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The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.

John F. Kennedy

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Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

Confucius

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The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

Benjamin Franklin

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Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance.

Robert Quillen

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Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

H. L. Mencken

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Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

William Shakespeare

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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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How many times do you read about 'the Cinderella story', the story of the underdog, the story of the ordinary human being, often subjected to cruelty and ignorance and neglect, who somehow triumphs?

Kenneth Branagh

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War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

George Orwell

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Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.

Thucydides

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Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.

Plato

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Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

George Bernard Shaw

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Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.

Frederick Douglass

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Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

Martin Luther King Jr.

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True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Henry David Thoreau

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Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

W. Clement Stone

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Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance and the gospel of envy.

Winston Churchill

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