Ignorance

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

Confucius

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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure.

Mark Twain

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A wise man admits his ignorance; an ignorant man admits he's wise.

American proverb

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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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I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance.

bell hooks

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Ignorance is always afraid of change.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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We're all caught up in circumstances, and we're all good and evil. When you're really hungry, for instance, you'll do anything to survive. I think the most evil thing — well, maybe that's too strong — but certainly a very evil thing is judgment, the sin of ignorance.

Anthony Hopkins

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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

Socrates

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Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.

Thucydides

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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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Cruelty is all out of ignorance. If you knew what was in store for you, you wouldn't hurt anybody, because whatever you do comes back much more forceful than you send it out.

Willie Nelson

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A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

Saul Bellow

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Weakness is what brings ignorance, cheapness, racism, homophobia, desperation, cruelty, brutality, all these things that will keep a society chained to the ground, one foot nailed to the floor.

Henry Rollins

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We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.

Carl Sagan

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The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.

Samuel Butler

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

W. Clement Stone

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

Martin Luther King Jr.

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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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