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

  Horace Mann

  Ignorance, Soul, Monsters

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.143

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• Einstein's relativity work is a magnificent mathematical garb which fascinates, dazzles and makes people blind to the underlying errors. The theory is like a beggar clothed in purple whom ignorant people take for a king... its exponents are brilliant men but they are metaphysicists rather than scientists.

  Nikola Tesla

  Kings, Ignorance, Men

  The New York Times, (p. 23, c.8), July 11, 1935.

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  Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Inspirational, Funny, Letting Go

  FaceBook post by Natalie Goldberg from Jul 25, 2011

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• Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.

  Euripides

  Ignorance, Adversity, Literature

  "Antiope". Play by Euripides, 410 BCE.

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• Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Ignorance, Armor, Logic

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

  Karl Popper

  Learning, Ignorance, Knowledge

  Lecture to British Academy, 20 Jan. 1960, in Proceedings of the British Academy (1960) vol. 46, p. 69

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• A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wise, Wisdom, Ignorance

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Quotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotations from Henry David Thoreau”, p.109, BookBaby

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• What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly.

  Jonathan Swift

  Heaven, Literature

  'Thoughts on Various Subjects' (1706).

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• Schools in amerika are interested in brainwashing people with amerikanism, giving them a little bit of education, and training them in skills needed to fill the positions the capitalist system requires. As long as we expect amerika's schools to educate us, we will remain ignorant.

  Assata Shakur

  School, Skills, Long

  Assata Shakur (1987). “Assata: An Autobiography”, p.196, Zed Books

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• Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

  Bernard Berenson

  Inspirational, Creativity, Ignorance

  Bernard Berenson (1962). “The Bernard Berenson Treasury: A Selection from the Works, Unpublished Writings, Letters, Diaries, and Journals of the Most Celebrated Humanist and Art Historian of Our Times, 1887-1958”

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• A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men.

  Saadi

  Beautiful, Girl, Wise

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• A false friend, an unjust judge, a braggart, hypocrite, and tyrant, sincere in hatred, jealous, vain and revengeful, false in promise, honest in curse, suspicious, ignorant, infamous and hideous-such is the God of the Pentateuch.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  God, Religious, Hypocrite

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.428, Library of Alexandria

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• A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.

  H. L. Mencken

  Freedom, Crazy, Ignorance

  "A Mencken Chrestomathy". Book by H. L. Mencken, 1949.

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• Both wit and understanding are trifles without integrity; it is that which gives value to every character. The ignorant peasant, without fault, is greater than the philosopher with many; for what is genius or courage without a heart?

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Inspirational, Art, Integrity

  "The Vicar of Wakefield".

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• If I remained silent and you remained silent, then who will teach the ignorant?

  Ibn Taymiyyah

  Teaching, Islamic, Ignorance

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• The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Animal, Men

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• Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Life, Friendship, Wise

  "The Fables of La Fontaine: Book VIII". Book by Jean de La Fontaine, 1678-1679.

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• An ignorant friend is worse than a learned foe.

  Brian Herbert

  Foe

  Brian Herbert, Kevin Anderson (2002). “Dune: House Corrino”, p.380, Spectra

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• To the ignorant, even the words of wise seem foolishness.

  Euripides

  Wise, Seems, Foolishness

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• Being both stupid and ignorant is an accomplishment.

  Gene Weingarten

  Stupid, Accomplishment

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• As the condition of America and the world degenerates, it is we who are the weak or the poor or the ignorant who feel it worse.

  Louis Farrakhan

  America, Degenerates, World

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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• The tendency to superstitions should be counteracted from the earliest age; or rather steps should be taken to protect the mind of the child from superstitions imposed upon it by ignorant nurses or silly mothers.

  Arthur Alfred Lynch

  Mother, Children, Silly

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• Through the computer, the heralds say, we will make education better, religion better, politics better, our minds better — best of all, ourselves better. This is, of course, nonsense, and only the young or the ignorant or the foolish could believe it.

  Neil Postman

  Believe, Mind, Computer

  "Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business". Book by Neil Postman, 1985.

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• Families, when a child is born Want it to be intelligent. I, through intelligence, Having wrecked my whole life, Only hope the baby will prove Ignorant and stupid. Then he will crown a tranquil life By becoming a Cabinet Minister.

  Stephen King

  Baby, Children, Stupid

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• No people are so easy to govern as the intelligent, and none are so hard to govern as the ignorant.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Intelligent, People, Easy

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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