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• He stared at his feet. “I’m still very ignorant,” he said, “but at least I’m ignorant about really important things.

  Terry Pratchett

  Feet, Important, Said

  Terry Pratchett (2010). “Diggers: The Second Book of the Nomes”, p.78, Random House

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• Well, what we know Is not what they tell us We're not ignorant, I mean it, And they just cannot touch us Through the powers of the Most-High We keep on surfacin' Thru the powers of the Most-High We keep on survivin'.

  Bob Marley

  Mean, Wells, Knows

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• They were so ignorant, so naive, so resigned to their lot. They refused to believe anything that didn't fit in with what they were used to believing.

  Paulo Coelho

  Believe, Fit, Used

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• People sometimes accuse me of knowing a lot. "Stephen," they say, accusingly, "you know a lot." This is a bit like telling a person who has a few grains of sand clinging to him that he owns much sand. When you consider the vast amount of sand there is in the world such a person is, to all intents and purposes, sandless. We are all sandless. We are all ignorant. There are beaches and deserts and dunes of knowledge whose existance we have never even guessed at, let alone visited.

  Stephen Fry

  Beach, Knowing, People

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• It’s ignorant to think you know everything about a person. There’s many different sides to everybodys personality and there’s just different colours to a personality.

  Kelly Clarkson

  Thinking, Personality, Different

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• Ignorance is of a peculiar nature; once dispelled, it is impossible to reestablish it. It is not originally a thing of itself, but is only the absence of knowledge; and though man may be kept ignorant, he cannot be made ignorant.

  Thomas Paine

  Ignorance, Men, Peculiar

  Thomas Paine (2015). “The Thomas Paine Collection: Common Sense, Rights of Man, Age of Reason, An Essay on Dream, Biblical Blasphemy, Examination Of The Prophecies”, p.100, Ravenio Books

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• But who is more ignorant? The man who cannot define lightning, or the man who does not respect its awesome power?

  Dan Brown

  Men, Lightning, Doe

  Dan Brown (2009). “Angels & Demons - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.322, Simon and Schuster

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• I was woefully ignorant in the social graces. I was being raised, after all, by Pellinore Warthrop.

  Rick Yancey

  Grace, Social, Raised

  Rick Yancey (2010). “The Monstrumologist: Curse of the Wendigo”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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• If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're gonna get selfish, ignorant leaders.

  George Carlin

  Selfish, Leader, Citizens

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• One must indeed be ignorant of the methods of genius to suppose that it allows itself to be cramped by forms. Forms are for mediocrity, and it is fortunate that mediocrity can act only according to routine. Ability takes its flight unhindered.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Routine, Genius, Mediocrity

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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• And when Paul dove to embrace me, the look on his face was one of absolute, perfect joy—the kind of joy that can't be reproached, stolen, or marred—the kind that only the innocent or the ignorant are capable of experiencing.

  Tiffanie DeBartolo

  Perfect, Joy, Looks

  Tiffanie DeBartolo (2005). “How to Kill a Rock Star”, p.203, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• I cannot prove that gods do not exist. Nor can I prove that the world and everything in it was not created by an entity or entities in the distant past. But I can tell you that in the millennia we elves have studied nature, we have never witnessed an instance where the rules that govern the world have been broken. That is, we have never seen a miracle. Many events have defied our ability to explain, but we are convinced that we failed because we are still woefully ignorant about the universe and not because a deity altered the workings of nature.

  Christopher Paolini

  Past, Broken, Miracle

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• That we are surrounded by deep mysteries is known to all but the incurably ignorant.

  Chinua Achebe

  Mystery, Known

  Chinua Achebe (1988). “Anthills of the Savannah”, p.102, Heinemann

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• If I'm among men who don't agree at all with my nature, I will hardly be able to accommodate myself to them without greatly changing myself. A free man who lives among the ignorant strives as far as he can to avoid their favors. A free man acts honestly, not deceptively. Only free man are genuinely useful to one another and can form true friendships. And it's absolutely permissible, by the highest right of Nature, for everyone to employ clear reason to determine how to live in a way that will allow him to flourish.

  Irvin D. Yalom

  Men, Way, Favors

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• He was ignorant, but a lot of people mistook ignorance for stupidity, and knowingness for intelligence.

  Michael Lewis

  Ignorance, People, Stupidity

  Michael Lewis (2007). “The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game”, p.175, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Was it love of people?' I asked her. 'Of course no,' she snapped sharply. 'How can you love ignorant, brutish people whom you don't even know? Can anyone love filth and squalor? Or lice and rats? Who can love aching weariness, and carry on working, in spite of it? One cannot love these things. One can only love God, and through His grace come to love His people.

  Jennifer Worth

  People, Grace, Lice

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• This isn’t happening to you, princess,” Sabine snapped before I could do more than shake my head. “This is happening to us. While you spent the past few months prancing around in ignorant bliss, we were all being possessed, or kidnapped, or stalked by this hellion. So dry your tears and take off the tiara, because this is a call to arms, not a pity party. You’re not going to find any sympathy here.

  Rachel Vincent

  Party, Princess, Past

  Rachel Vincent (2012). “Before I Wake”, p.236, Harlequin

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• To oppose knowledge is ignorant, and he who detests knowledge and science is not a man, but rather an animal without intelligence. For knowledge is light, life, felicity, perfection, beauty and the means of approaching the Threshold of Unity. It is the honor and glory of the world of humanity, and the greatest bounty of God. Knowledge is identical with guidance, and ignorance is real error

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Real, Ignorance, Mean

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• You have to start with the truth. The truth is the only way that we can get anywhere. Because any decision-making that is based upon lies or ignorance can't lead to a good conclusion.

  Julian Assange

  Lying, Ignorance, Decision

  "Julian Assange, monk of the online age who thrives on intellectual battle". Interview with Carole Cadwalladr, www.theguardian.com. July 31, 2010.

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• In Buddhism, there is no place for using effort. Just be ordinary and nothing special. Eat your food, move your bowels, pass water and when you're tired go and lie down. The ignorant will laugh at me, but the wise will understand.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Wise, Lying

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.161, Tuttle Publishing

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• Was she terrifyingly beautiful? Was she so ignorant she didn't deserve the truth? Was she also a liar and thus it was something they did together? I don't believe in psychology; which says everything you do is because of yourself. That is so untrue. We are social animals, and everything we do is because of other people, because we love them, or because we don't.

  Miranda July

  Beautiful, Liars, Believe

  Miranda July (2008). “No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories”, p.134, Simon and Schuster

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• Don't punish yourselves for people's ignorant reactions to what we all are. Don't let ignorance win. Let love.

  Nancy Garden

  Ignorance, Winning, People

  Nancy Garden (2017). “Annie on My Mind”, p.129, Open Road Media

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• In every state of the Union, Fundamentalists still fight to ban all the science they dislike and prosecute all who teach it. To them, 'traditional family values' denotes their right to keep their children as ignorant as their grandparents (and to hate the same folks grand-dad hated.)

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Children, Dad, Hate

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• There are ignorant priests and ignorant people, who are all too ready to cry sorcery if a woman is only a little wiser than they are!

  Marion Zimmer Bradley

  People, Sorcery, Littles

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• I believe that it would be almost impossible to find anywhere in America a black man who has lived further down in the mud of human society than I have; or a black man who has been any more ignorant than I have; or a black man who has suffered more anguish during his life than I have. But it is only after the deepest darkness that the greatest joy can come; it is only after slavery and prison that the sweetest appreciation of freedom can come.

  Malcolm X

  Appreciation, Freedom, Believe

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