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To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
Ignorance
Amos Bronson Alcott

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You must not enthrone ignorance just because there is much of it.
Ignorance
American Proverb

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Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.
Children
Maya Angelou

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Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.
Law and Lawyers
Jeremy Bentham

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Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
Knowledge
Ambrose Bierce

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Learning. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.
Learning
Ambrose Bierce

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Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
Religion
Ambrose Bierce

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The trouble with most folks ain't so much their ignorance as knowing so many things that ain't so.
Knowledge
Josh Billings

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If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
Ignorance
Derek Bok

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The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -- it is the illusion of knowledge.
Obstacles
Daniel J. Boorstin

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Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.
Argument
Louis D. Brandeis

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Ignorance is not innocence, but sin.
Ignorance
Robert Browning

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

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Science is but the exchange of ignorance for that which is another kind of ignorance.
Science and Scientists
Lord Byron

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I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
Ignorance
Thomas Carlyle

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The reason there's so much ignorance is that those who have it are so eager to share it.
Ignorance
Frank A. Clark

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Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon or star.
Ignorance
Confucius

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The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.
Knowledge
Confucius

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Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.
Quotations
Guy Debord

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He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.
Ideas
Benjamin Disraeli

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Mr Kremlin himself was distinguished for ignorance, for he had only one idea,and that was wrong.
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Benjamin Disraeli

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The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.
Love
Benjamin Disraeli

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Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance.
Education
William J. Durant

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The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.
Ignorance
Wayne Dyer

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A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.
Learning
Bob Edwards

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun