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• The ordinary man says in his ignorance, "My religion is the sole religion, my religion is the best." But when his heart is illuminated by the true knowledge, he knows that beyond all the battles of sects and of sectaries presides the one, indivisible, eternal and omnipresent Benediction.

  Ramakrishna

  Heart, Men, Battle

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• Education is man's going forward from cocksure ignorance to thoughtful uncertainty.Where there is an open mind there will always be a frontier.

  Charles Kettering

  Thoughtful, Men, Mind

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• To argue that the gaps in knowledge which confront the seeker must be filled, not by patient inquiry, but by intuition or revelation, is simply to give ignorance a gratuitous and preposterous dignity.

  H. L. Mencken

  Giving, Intuition, Inquiry

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• When you're dealing with the universe, ignorance can be deadly.

  Phil Plait

  Universe

  "Phil Plait's Bad Universe comes to Discovery" (from monstersandcritics.com),

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• The clergy, no less than the capitalist class, lives on the backs of the people, profits from the degradation, the ignorance and the oppression of the people.

  Rosa Luxemburg

  Class, People, Degradation

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• At ebb tide I wrote a line upon the sand, and gave it all my heart and all my soul. At flood tide I returned to read what I had inscribed and found my ignorance upon the shore.

  Khalil Gibran

  Heart, Soul, Lines

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• Somebody else's ignorance is bliss.

  Jack Vance

  Bliss, Ignorance Is Bliss

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• If your mind is open to opposing ideas, your intelligence will go up. If your mind is closed to opposing ideas, your ignorance is in control. Intelligence or ignorance? Your ability to keep an open mind and appreciate multiple points of view is conscious choice. And one that can open your world, and shape your childs future.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Ideas, Views, Appreciate

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• It is so easy to hide our ignorance under such expressions as the plan of
  creation or unity of design, etc., and to think that we give an explanation
  when we only restate a fact.

  Charles Darwin

  Thinking, Expression, Giving

  Charles Darwin (2016). “On the Origin of Species”, p.357, Zillmann Publishing

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• Today, on our own turf, we face pagan ignorance about God every bit as deep as that which the early church faced in the Roman Empire.

  J. I. Packer

  Church, Empires, Today

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• It must certainly be more dangerous to live in ignorance than to live with knowledge.

  Frank Herbert

  Dangerous

  Frank Herbert (2007). “The White Plague”, p.68, Macmillan

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• Adventure is putting one's ignorance into motion.

  William Least Heat-Moon

  Adventure

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• All laws for the purpose of making man worship God, are born of the same spirit that kindled the fires of the auto da fe, and lovingly built the dungeons of the Inquisition. All laws defining and punishing blasphemy - making it a crime to give your honest ideas about the Bible, or to laugh at the ignorance of the ancient Jews, or to enjoy yourself on the Sabbath, or to give your opinion of Jehovah, were passed by impudent bigots, and should be at once repealed by honest men. An infinite God ought to be able to protect himself, without going in partnership with State Legislatures.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Men, Law, Ideas

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.312, Library of Alexandria

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• Ignorance is the Mother not of Devotion, but of Heresy.

  Cotton Mather

  Mother, Devotion, Heresy

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• A state of apostasy is worse than a state of ignorance.

  Matthew Henry

  States, Apostasy

  Matthew Henry, Leslie F. Church (1992). “The NIV Matthew Henry Commentary in One Volume: Based on the Broad Oak Edition”, p.8475, Harper Collins

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• The country will survive Obama, but it cannot survive the abject ignorance that elected him.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country

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• The notion that better engineering can solve all our problems is rooted in an ignorance of non-linear systems and selective/wishful thinking.

  Charles Hugh Smith

  Thinking, Engineering, Problem

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• As coercive monopolies that spend other people's money taken by force, governments are uniquely unqualified to solve problems. They are riddled by ignorance, perverse incentives, incompetence and are self-serving.

  John Stossel

  Taken, Government, Self

  "Don't Look to Government to Cool Down the Planet". abcnews.go.com. November 14, 2007.

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• Philosopher Bertrand Russell suggested that 'Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.' And, it was Albert Einstein who explained, 'Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.' So which is it - stupidity, ignorance or insanity - that explains the behavior of my fellow Americans who call for greater government involvement in our lives?

  Walter E. Williams

  Stupid, Men, Insanity

  Walter E. Williams (2015). “American Contempt for Liberty”, p.58, Hoover Institution Press

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• Only the stupefying ignorance of young women prevents them from comprehending the stupefying emptiness of the men who cluster round them.

  Richard Brookhiser

  Men, Emptiness, He Man

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• It is debatable which is causing us more harm - hot-headed ignorance or cold-hearted intellectualism.

  Vance Havner

  Hot Headed, Cold Hearted, Harm

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• Truth is better for humanity than ignorance, lies, or spin. And it's more interesting.

  Steve Sailer

  Lying, Interesting, Humanity

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• People who know nothing about advertising, nothing about pharmaceuticals, and nothing about economics have been loudly proclaiming that the drug companies spend too much on advertising - and demanding that the government pass laws based on their ignorance.

  Thomas Sowell

  Government, Law, People

  Thomas Sowell (2013). “Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays”, p.204, Hoover Press

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• In a democracy, we have always had to worry about the ignorance of the uneducated. Today we have to worry about the ignorance of people with college degrees.

  Thomas Sowell

  College, People, Worry

  Thomas Sowell (2011). “Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)”, p.402, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Under the influence of collectivist ideologies, many politicians and journalists are ever eager to strike at successful entrepreneurs who earn much more than they do. It is difficult to ascertain their motives; it can be simple envy which consumes many men, or it can be economic ignorance.

  Hans F. Sennholz

  Successful, Simple, Men

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