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• Sand can resist to water; but it cannot win. Ignorant can resist to knowledge; but it cannot win.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Winning, Water, Sand

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• It is certain that either wise bearing or ignorant carriage is caught as men take diseases, one of another.

  William Shakespeare

  Wise, Men, Disease

  William Shakespeare (2016). “King Henry IV Part 2: Third Series”, p.391, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• It is certainly of great importance for a general to keep his plans secret; and Frederick the Great was right when he said that if his night-cap knew what was in his head he would throw it into the fire. That kind of secrecy was practicable in Frederick's time when his whole army was kept closely about him; but when maneuvers of the vastness of Napoleon's are executed, and war is waged as in our day, what concert of action can be expected from generals who are utterly ignorant of what is going on around them?

  Antoine-Henri Jomini

  War, Army, Night

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• Neither do the ignorant love wisdom or desire to become wise; for this is the grievous thing about ignorance, that those who are neither good nor beautiful think they are good enough, and do not desire that which they do not think they are lacking.

  Plato

  Beautiful, Wise, Ignorance

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• You can reach a situation where things of intelligence and refinement and culture can be considered elite, and things that are crass and ignorant can be considered to be real and of the people. And when you begin to have the mass of populus striving for something that's not worth striving for, then tremendous amounts of energy go into...the maintenance of that which is worthless.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Real, People, Energy

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• Reason and truth have rarely prevailed against demagoguery when the audience is too ignorant to tell the difference.

  Charley Reese

  Differences, Reason, Audience

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• I grew up like a neglected weed, ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it. Then I was not happy or contented: every time I saw a white man I was afraid of being carried away.

  Harriet Tubman

  Weed, Men, White Man

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• General Taylor is, I have no doubt, a well-meaning old man. He is, however, uneducated, exceedingly ignorant of public affairs, and I should judge, of very ordinary capacity.

  James K. Polk

  Men, Judging, Doubt

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• America was founded by the refuse of the religious fanatics of England, these undesirable elements that came over on the Mayflower. Ignorant, religious fanatics who land here and abuse the Indians.

  Frank Zappa

  Religious, America, Land

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• Americans are very smart about the things they care about, and ignorant about the things they don't.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Smart, Care, Very Smart

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• A nation ignorant of the equal benefits of liberty and law, must be awed by the flashes of arbitrary power: the cruelty of a despot will assume the character of justice; his profusion, of liberality; his obstinacy, of firmness.

  Edward Gibbon

  Character, Law, Justice

  Edward Gibbon (2016). “The Collected Works of Edward Gibbon: Historical Works, Autobiographical Writings and Private Letters, Including The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.3359, e-artnow

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• Ignorant of the arts of luxury, the primitive Romans had improved the science of government and war.

  Edward Gibbon

  Art, War, Government

  Edward Gibbon (1871). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.22

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• Nobody wants to intervene in Russian affairs. Russia is a very large country, a very old country, a very disagreeable country inhabited by immense numbers of ignorant people largely possessed of lethal weapons and in a state of extreme disorder. Also Russia is a long way off.

  Winston Churchill

  Country, Russia, Numbers

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• The America of Obama's dreams is not the one of self-reliance and entrepreneurship to which he paid phony lip service at the beginning of his speech. It is an America in which the government, rather than the private sector, creates wealth and leads ignorant, helpless people by the nose from cradle to grave, from preschool to the academy, with the caveat that if they succeed too much, they will make themselves enemies of the state and targets for punitive action. Obama's new American dreams is an American nightmare.

  David Limbaugh

  Dream, America, Government

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• I do sometimes accuse people of ignorance, but that is not intended to be an insult. I'm ignorant of lots of things. Ignorance is something that can be remedied by education.

  Richard Dawkins

  Ignorance, People, Insult

  "How Richard Dawkins Communicates Evolution (Surprise, It’s Not the Same Thing as Atheism)" by Chris Mooney, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• In these respects we differ from the Christian world, for our religion will not clash with or contradict the facts of science in any particular... whether the Lord found the earth empty and void, whether he made it out of nothing or out of the rude elements; or whether he made it in six days or in as many millions of years, is and will remain a matter of speculation in the minds of men unless he give revelation on the subject. If we understood the process of creation there would be no mystery about it, it would be all reasonable and plain, for there is no mystery except to the ignorant.

  Brigham Young

  Christian, Men, Years

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• Well, I have a testimony, I may be ignorant, but I am not lost.

  Hugh Nibley

  May, Lost, Testimony

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• In the Scriptures be the fat pastures of the soul; therein is no venomous meat, no unwholesome thing; they be the very dainty and pure feeding. He that is ignorant, shall find there what he should learn.

  Thomas Cranmer

  Soul, Meat, Scripture

  Thomas Cranmer, Henry Jenkyns (1833). “The Remains of Thomas Cranmer”, p.111

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• When people came to Christ accusing a person of doing wrong, the Master could not think of anything else but forgiveness. For he did not see in the wrongdoer what the others saw. To distinguish between right and wrong is not the work of an ordinary mind, and the curious thing is that the more ignorant a person is, the more ready he is to do so.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Thinking, People, Mind

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• The weak, the fearful, the ignorant will never reach the Atman. You cannot undo what you have done; the effect must come. Face it, but be careful never to do the same thing again. Give up the burden of all deeds to God. Give all, both good and bad. God helps those who do not help themselves.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Giving Up, Done, Deeds

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• But I never again went through this street. There would be other men coming in this man's place and, ignorant of the incident, they would behave likewise. Why should I unnecessarily court another kick? I therefore selected a different walk.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Different, Would Be

  Mahatma Gandhi (2008). “My Experiments With Truth: An Autobiography”, p.145, Jaico Publishing House

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• We are on the precipice of being so ignorant that our democracy is threatened.

  Walter Cronkite

  Democracy, Precipice, Threatened

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• Even though some people give you no respect, be intelligent when you put them in check, cause when you're ignorant, you get treated that way.

  Too $hort

  Intelligent, People, Giving

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• Hateful, racist and ignorant remarks. When I hear people criticize without knowing the context, it makes me boil inside.

  Kristen Stewart

  Knowing, People, Racist

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• To say I'm ignorant only proves your ignorance.

  Behdad Sami

  Ignorance, Prove

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