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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.

Galileo Galilei
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I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance is the death of knowledge. -Alfred North Whitehead
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Ignorance never settles a question.

Benjamin Disraeli
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To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.

Amos Bronson Alcott
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It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance. -Saint Jerome
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Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon and star.

Confucius
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It is better to conceal one's knowledge than to reveal one's ignorance.

Spanish Proverb
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Ignorance is not innocence but sin. -Robert Browning
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Better be ignorant of a matter than half know it.

Publilius Syrus
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The most violent element in society is ignorance.

Emma Goldman
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Nothing is worse than active ignorance. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.

Sydney Smith
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We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders. -Maya Angelou
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I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. It is not skeptics or explorers but fanatics and ideologues who menace decency and progress. No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortur.

Daniel J. Boorstin
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It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.

Voltaire
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There is no means by which men so powerfully elude their ignorance, disguise it from themselves and from others as by words. -Gamaliel Bradford
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It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile.

Adam Hastings
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What's encouraging about meditation is that even if we shut down, we can no longer shut down in ignorance. We see very clearly that we're closing off. That in itself begins to illuminate the darkness of ignorance.

Pema Chodron
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My whole career can be summed up with 'Ignorance is bliss.' When you do not know better, you do not really worry about failing. -Jeff Foxworthy
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Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.

Thomas Paine
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Ignorance of certain subjects is a great part of wisdom.

Hugo De Groot
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It is better to confess ignorance than provide it. -Homer Hickam
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Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

Bernard Berenson
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Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing.

Irene Peter
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Against logic there is no armor like ignorance. -Laurence J. Peter
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It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.

Mignon McLaughlin
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Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.

George Eliot
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It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block. -Paul Gauguin
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