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Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.

Which is the best man to deal with,-he who knows nothing about a subject, and, what is extremely rar...

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What is most of our boasted so-called knowledge but a conceit that we know something, which robs us ...

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In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.

Weakness is what brings ignorance, cheapness, racism, homophobia, desperation, cruelty, brutality, a...

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A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.

Ignorance is the parent of fear ...

Ignorance is the parent of fear.

The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance.

...But that is a method for cowards; the brave man goes out into the hall, comes back with a stick, ...

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Extremism thrives amid ignorance and anger, intimidation and cowardice.

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the later ignorance.

People think that epilepsy is divine simply because they don't have any idea what causes epilepsy. B...

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Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance...

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Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities o...

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There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-int...

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If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know—and yet not wise enough to control our learning an...

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Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning ...

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There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-int...

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Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden o...

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The young specialist in English Lit, having quoted me, went on to lecture me severely on the fact th...

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Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patie...

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I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.

Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not ...

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I expect what you're not aware of would fill several books, Dursely.

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Do you mean ter tell me," he growled at the Dursleys, "that this boy—this boy!—knows nothin' abou'—a...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

Thoroughly conscious ignorance is the prelude to every real advance in science.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm the...

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During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What have...

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James MadisonA Memorial and Remonstrance

Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dri...

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The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen o...

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But Catherine did not know her own advantages - did not know that a good-looking girl, with an affec...

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She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance - a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they sho...

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Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one...

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But to live in ignorance on such a point was impossible.

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Jane AustenPride and Prejudice

You can do one of two things just shut up which is something I don't find easy or learn an awful ...

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Prejudice is a product of ignorance that hides behind barriers of tradition.

Ignorance is always afraid of change.

Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.

To write a good love letter you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say and to finish w...

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If there was an elephant in the supermarket, she'd either not see it at all, or call it Mrs Jones an...

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There is always a city. There is always a civilisation. There is always a barbarian with a pickaxe. ...

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We are not encouraged, on a daily basis, to pay careful attention to the animals we eat. On the cont...

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Jeffrey Moussaieff MassonThe Face on Your Plate: The Truth About Food

I didn’t answer her. All I could have said was I don’t know, a sentence that was becoming a kind of ...

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It was a test of a fragile trust. It was a test of our curiosity and fascination, which walked side ...

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It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it...

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There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The firs...

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The question of whether or not there is a God or truth or reality or whatever you like to call it, c...

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Time after time, history demonstrates that when people don't want to believe something, they have en...

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Ignorance is not bad faith. But persistence in ignorance is.

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Joanna RussHow to Suppress Women's Writing

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitutio...

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We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the...

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I would wish that people would accept people for who they are, not be judgmental, allow people to li...

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God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escape...

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It would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility "faith"!(Institutio III....

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You do realize as you grow older that almost nobody knows what they are talking about.

The greater our knowledge increases the greater our ignorance unfolds.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

People think the Beatles know what's going on. We don't. We're just doing it.

The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance wh...

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It is true that a great statesman is he who knows when to depart from traditions, as well as when to...

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John Stuart MillConsiderations on Representative Government

If anyone else asked that question, O He Who Is Terrible and Great, I would have said they were an i...

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We have a very precise image - an image at times shameless - of what we have lost, but we are ignora...

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Jorge Luis BorgesSeven Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges

It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.

The trouble ain't that people are ignorant: it's that they know so much that ain't so.

The Iraq War was the biggest issue for people of my generation in the West. It was also the clearest...

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Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.

It’s ignorant to think you know everything about a person. There’s many different sides to everybody...

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Ignorance and prejudice are the handmaidens of propaganda. Our mission, therefore, is to confront ig...

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The good Lord set definite limits on man's wisdom but set no limits on his stupidity - and that's j...

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Now then, Mr. Crab," said the zebra, "here are the people I told you about; and they know more than ...

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L. Frank BaumThe Emerald City of Oz

To know that you do not know is the best.To think you know when you do not is a disease.Recognizing ...

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If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.

truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not g...

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Misunderstanding arising from ignorance breeds fear, and fear remains the greatest enemy of peace.

The greatest of all the accomplishments of 20th century science has been the discovery of human igno...

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I have always wanted to be somebody but I see now I should have been more specific.

...Writings can be stolen, or changed, or used for evil purposes. But isn't the risk worth taking? T...

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The world demands I make good choices on no information, and then blames my maidenhood for my mistak...

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Only one who has learned much can fully appreciate his ignorance.

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Louis L'AmourEducation of a Wandering Man

...the way I figure, no man has the right to be ignorant. In a country like this, ignorance is a cri...

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For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian──ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, wh...

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The knowledge from an enlightened person breaks on the hard rocks of ignorance.

Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it...

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All the great evils which men cause to each other because of certain intentions, desires, opinions, ...

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His sisters -- my aunts -- did not go to school at all, just like millions of girls in my country. E...

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Malala YousafzaiI Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

So what I had believed to be nothing to me was simply my entire life. How ignorant one is of oneself...

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Marcel ProustThe Captive & The Fugitive

What you don’t know won’t hurt you. A dubious maxim: sometimes what you don’t know can hurt you very...

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How could I have been so ignorant? she thinks. So stupid, so unseeing, so given over to carelessness...

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I would like to be without shame. I would like to be shameless. I would like to be ignorant. Then I ...

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Don't judge what you don't know.

Whenever two good people argue over principles they are both right.

But through years of myth-making and fear-sowing, Christianity meta-morphosed antichrists into a sin...

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All this misjudgment that we have of each other is based on ignorance. The second you get to travel,...

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