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• A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.

  Moliere

  Education, Learning, Ignorance

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• It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising their sovereignty.

  James Monroe

  Exercise, People, Degenerates

  James Monroe, Ian Elliot, United States. President (1817-1825 : Monroe) (1969). “James Monroe, 1758-1831: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”, Oceana Pubns

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• Should such an ignorant people lead the world? How did it come to this in the first place? 82 percent of us don't even have a passport! Just a handful can speak a language other than English.

  Michael Moore

  People, World, Firsts

  "Nicht ganz Amerika ist verrückt" by Michael Moore, www.zeit.de. November 6, 2003.

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• I was a very naive young man, and I may still be ignorant about a lot of things.

  Joe Namath

  Men, May, Young

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• To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.

  Plutarch

  Life, Men, Childhood

  Plutarch (1832). “Lives of the most select and illustrious characters of antiquity”, p.9

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• Ignorant free speech often works against the speaker. That is one of several reasons why it must be given rein instead of suppressed.

  Anna Quindlen

  Speech, Reason Why, Given

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• A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.

  Grantland Rice

  Confidence, Wise, Wisdom

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• Many of those people involved in Adolf Hitler were Satanists, many were homosexuals - the two things seem to go together.

  Pat Robertson

  Stupid, Two, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I know one man who was impotent who gave AIDS to his wife and the only thing they did was kiss.

  Pat Robertson

  Stupid, Kissing, Men

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.

  Maximilien Robespierre

  Lying, Tyrants, People

  "Oeuvres". Volume 2, p. 253, 1840.

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• There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Pride, Curiosity, Wish

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• An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.

  Will Rogers

  Inspiration, Political Will, Justice

  "Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time". Book by Laurence J. Peter, p. 258, 1979.

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• I have no companion but Love, no beginning, no end, no dawn. The Soul calls from within me: 'You, ignorant of the way of Love, set Me free.'

  Rumi

  Soul, Dawn, Way

  Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (2008). “The Pocket Rumi”, p.4, Shambhala Publications

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• Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.

  Bertrand Russell

  Elderly, Umpires, Religion

  Look Magazine, February 23, 1954.

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• If I had my way, I'd end all wars and poverty. We should all be more aware of what's going on in the world around us and less ignorant.

  Adora Svitak

  War, World, Way

  "Adora Svitak Likes French Philosophy, Reads Three Novels A Day, Has Written 400 Short Stories And Champions Feminism And World Peace. She Is 8". www.mirror.co.uk. September 28, 2006.

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• It seems we're not only uninformed about our present, we're ignorant of our past.

  Adora Svitak

  Past, Uninformed, Seems

  "Do We Treat History Like a Dead Language?" by Adora Svitak, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 28, 2011.

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• Evolution is a bankrupt speculative philosophy, not a scientific fact. Only a spiritually bankrupt society could ever believe it. Only atheists could accept this Satanic theory.

  Jimmy Swaggart

  Atheist, Philosophy, Stupid

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In modern American politics, being the right kind of ignorant and entertainingly crazy is like having a big right hand in boxing; you've always got a puncher's chance.

  Matt Taibbi

  Crazy, Hands, Boxing

  "Michele Bachmann's Holy War". Article by Matt Taibbi, www.rollingstone.com. June 22, 2011.

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• I like to think I don't make music for ignorant people.

  Tinie Tempah

  Thinking, People, Ignorant People

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• The most solid piece of scientific truth I know of is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature.

  Lewis Thomas

  Pieces, Knows, Scientific Truth

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• Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.

  G. M. Trevelyan

  Impossible Things, Possible And Impossible, Waiting

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• I grew up like a neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.

  Harriet Tubman

  Weed, Marijuana, Liberty

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• George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.

  Mark Twain

  Lying, Boys, Accomplishment

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.25, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• We are taught that the body is an ignorant animal intelligence dwells only in the head. But the body is smart. It does not discern between external stimuli and stimuli from the imagination. It reacts equally viscerally to events from the imagination as it does to real events.

  Gloria E. Anzaldúa

  Real, Smart, Animal

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• In a head-on collision with Fanatics, the real problem is always the same: how can we possibly behave decently toward people so arrogantly ignorant that they believe, first, that they possess Christ's power to bestow salvation, second, that forcing us to memorize and regurgitate a few of their favorite Bible phrases and attend their church is that salvation, and third, that any discomfort, frustration, anger or disagreement we express in the face of their moronic barrages is due not to their astounding effrontery but to our sinfulness?

  David James Duncan

  Real, Believe, Frustration

  David James Duncan (2010). “The Brothers K”, p.227, Dial Press

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