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• Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.

  Plato

  Education, Wisdom, Plato

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• Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Daughter, Liberty, Admiration

  Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.75, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative and creation, there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in ones favor all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance which no man could have dreamed would have come his way.

  W. H. Murray

  Inspirational, Moving, Commitment

  "The Scottish Himalaya Expedition". Book by W. H. Murray, 1951.

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• Prejudice is the child of ignorance.

  William Hazlitt

  Education, Children, Parenting

  William Hazlitt (1839). “Sketches and Essays”, p.83

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• The only competition you will ever face is with your own ignorance.

  Bob Proctor

  Competition, Faces

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Mar 22, 2017

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• It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Inspirational, Mother, Knowledge

  Joseph Wood Krutch (1971). “The Voice of the Desert, a Naturalist's Interpretation.”, William Morrow & Co

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• Ignorance is the parent of fear.

  Herman Melville

  Fear, Healing, Parent

  Herman Melville (2008). “Moby-Dick”, p.24, Velvet Element Books

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• Ignorance never settles a question.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Intelligent, Intelligence, Never Settle

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.5013, Delphi Classics

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• It is a blind goose that cometh to the fox's sermon.

  John Lyly

  Bird, Foxes, Blind

  John Lyly, Leah Scragg (2003). “John Lyly 'Euphues: the Anatomy of Wit' and 'Euphues and His England': An Annotated, Modern-Spelling Edition”, p.242, Manchester University Press

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• To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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  Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

  Bertrand Russell

  Education, Stupid, School

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “History of Western Philosophy: Collectors Edition”, p.578, Routledge

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• The origin of all science is the desire to know causes, and the origin of all false science is the desire to accept false causes rather than none; or, which is the same thing, in the unwillingness to acknowledge our own ignorance.

  William Hazlitt

  Knowledge, Science, Desire

  1829 In The Atlas, 15 Feb.

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• Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.

  Charles Darwin

  Inspirational, Confidence, Atheist

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Darwin (Illustrated)”, p.6343, Delphi Classics

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

  Galileo Galilei

  Inspirational, Attitude, Learning

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• When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds.

  Will Rogers

  Knows, Bounds

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling, Frances N. Sterling (1993). “Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties”, p.29, Rowman & Littlefield

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• I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.

  Euripides

  Friendship, Clever, Men

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides III: Heracles, The Trojan Women, Iphigenia among the Taurians, Ion”, p.249, University of Chicago Press

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• Ignorance: the root of all evil.

  Plato

  Roots, Evil

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

  Confucius

  Stars, Knowledge, Learning

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• Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance.

  William Gaddis

  Stupid, Cultivation, Deliberate

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• One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Happiness, Happy, Funny Inspirational

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• A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Education, Work, Failure

  Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.96, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• The insolence of the vulgar is in proportion to their ignorance. They treat everything with contempt which they do not understand.

  William Hazlitt

  Insolence, Treats, Proportion

  William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.118

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• Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.

  Francis of Assisi

  Love, Fear, Fundraising

  Saint Francis (of Assisi), Regis J. Armstrong, Ignatius C. Brady (1982). “Francis and Clare: The Complete Works”, p.35, Paulist Press

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• Evil is relatively rare. Ignorance is epidemic.

  Jon Stewart

  Epidemics, Evil

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• Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind.

  John Tillotson

  Two, Ruins, Causes

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