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• The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  War, People, Danger

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• Quick condemnation of all that is not ours, of views with which we disagree, of ideas that do not attract us, is the sign of a narrow mind, of an uncultivated intelligence. Bigotry is always ignorant, and the wise boy, who will become the wise man, tries to understand and to see the truth in ideas with which he does not agree.

  Annie Besant

  Wise, Boys, Men

  Annie Besant (1917). “The Birth of New India: A Collection of Writings and Speeches on Indian Affairs”

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• The younger Mary J. Blige, I would call her, she was very unaware, ignorant.

  Mary J. Blige

  Mary J Blige, Mary

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• Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How did it become so easy?

  Allan Bloom

  School, Students, Lifetime

  Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

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• We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop up to the surface, having no notion of the beautiful structures of which they were once a part.

  Allan Bloom

  Beautiful, Civilization, Play

  Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.239, Simon and Schuster

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• Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously critical of it.

  Allan Bloom

  Learning, Cynical, Political

  Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

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• To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Men, Corny, Divine

  Jorge Luis Borges, Donald A. Yates, James East Irby (1964). “Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings”, p.114, New Directions Publishing

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• I could do nothing but Brooklyn shows for the rest of my career, and I could die ignorant.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Careers, Brooklyn, Shows

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• Part of the reason that the government's fear mongering is succeeding is because so many people are so ignorant, that it is easier for government to frighten people in submission.

  James Bovard

  Fear, Government, People

  "Talkin' to America" with Aaron Zelman, jpfo.org.

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• I would not send a poor girl into the world, ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I watch and guard her, till, deprived of self-respect and self-reliance, she lost the power or the will to watch and guard herself .

  Anne Bronte

  Girl, Respect, Self

  "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall". Book by Anne Bronte, Ch. III : A Controversy; Helen to Gilbert, 1848.

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• Today's younger generation is no worse than my own. We were just as ignorant and repulsive as they are, but nobody listened to us.

  Al Capp

  Young Generation, Generations, Today

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• I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Love, Lying, Mind

  "History of My Life". Book by Giacomo Casanova, 1997.

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• I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Education, Knowledge, Knowing Who You Are

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• In order to maintain an untenable position, you have to be actively ignorant. One motto on the show is, 'Keep your facts, I'm going with the truth.'

  Stephen Colbert

  Order, Never Quit, Facts

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• Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Ignorance, Understanding, Understanding Yourself

  'Biographia Literaria' (1817) ch. 12

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• He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Writing, Men, Profound

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.235

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• It is not the intelligent woman v. the ignorant woman; nor the white woman v. the black, the brown, and the red, it is not even the cause of woman v. man. Nay, tis woman's strongest vindication for speaking that the world needs to hear her voice.

  Anna Julia Cooper

  Intelligent, Men, Voice

  Anna Julia Cooper, Charles C. Lemert, Esme Bhan (1998). “The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper: Including A Voice from the South and Other Important Essays, Papers, and Letters”, p.107, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales.

  Aleister Crowley

  Nature, Fighting, People

  "The Confessions of Aleister Crowley". Book by Aleister Crowley. Chapter 57, 1969.

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• I once wrote that anybody who believes the world is only 6,000 years old is either ignorant, stupid, insane or wicked.

  Richard Dawkins

  Stupid, Believe, Years

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• Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Two Nations, Political, Feelings

  Sybil bk. 2, ch. 5 (1845) See Kerner 1

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• My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions.

  Peter Drucker

  Asking Questions, Ignorant Masses, Asking Too Many Questions

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• Men know everything - all of them - all the time - no matter how stupid or inexperienced or arrogant or ignorant they are.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Funny, Stupid, Men

  Andrea Dworkin (2009). “Intercourse”, p.180, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.

  George Eliot

  Kindness, Would Be, Literature

  George Eliot (2006). “Daniel Deronda Volume Iii EasyRead Editi”, p.138, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths.

  Elizabeth I

  Money, Shining, Gold

  Letter, 1581.

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• At the present day the crude theory of the sexual impulse held on one side, and the ignorant rejection of theory altogether on the other side, are beginning to be seen as both alike unjustified.

  Havelock Ellis

  Rejection, Sides, Theory

  Havelock Ellis (2012). “Little Essays of Love and Virtue”, p.32, tredition

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