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• Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.

  Horace Mann

  Ignorance, Soul, Monsters

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.143

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• A lot of people who go into prison go into prison straight - and when they come out, they're gay.

  Benjamin Carson

  Crazy, Stupid, Gay

  "Ben Carson apologizes for comments on gay people" by Eric Bradner and Alexandra Jaffe, edition.cnn.com. March 5, 2015.

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  Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Inspirational, Funny, Letting Go

  FaceBook post by Natalie Goldberg from Jul 25, 2011

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• Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.

  Euripides

  Ignorance, Adversity, Literature

  "Antiope". Play by Euripides, 410 BCE.

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• Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Ignorance, Armor, Logic

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• Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.

  Karl Popper

  Learning, Ignorance, Knowledge

  Lecture to British Academy, 20 Jan. 1960, in Proceedings of the British Academy (1960) vol. 46, p. 69

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• A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wise, Wisdom, Ignorance

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Quotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotations from Henry David Thoreau”, p.109, BookBaby

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• What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly.

  Jonathan Swift

  Heaven, Literature

  'Thoughts on Various Subjects' (1706).

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• Schools in amerika are interested in brainwashing people with amerikanism, giving them a little bit of education, and training them in skills needed to fill the positions the capitalist system requires. As long as we expect amerika's schools to educate us, we will remain ignorant.

  Assata Shakur

  School, Skills, Long

  Assata Shakur (1987). “Assata: An Autobiography”, p.196, Zed Books

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• Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

  Bernard Berenson

  Inspirational, Creativity, Ignorance

  Bernard Berenson (1962). “The Bernard Berenson Treasury: A Selection from the Works, Unpublished Writings, Letters, Diaries, and Journals of the Most Celebrated Humanist and Art Historian of Our Times, 1887-1958”

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• A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men.

  Saadi

  Beautiful, Girl, Wise

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• A false friend, an unjust judge, a braggart, hypocrite, and tyrant, sincere in hatred, jealous, vain and revengeful, false in promise, honest in curse, suspicious, ignorant, infamous and hideous-such is the God of the Pentateuch.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  God, Religious, Hypocrite

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.428, Library of Alexandria

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• A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.

  H. L. Mencken

  Freedom, Crazy, Ignorance

  "A Mencken Chrestomathy". Book by H. L. Mencken, 1949.

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• Both wit and understanding are trifles without integrity; it is that which gives value to every character. The ignorant peasant, without fault, is greater than the philosopher with many; for what is genius or courage without a heart?

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Inspirational, Art, Integrity

  "The Vicar of Wakefield".

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• If I remained silent and you remained silent, then who will teach the ignorant?

  Ibn Taymiyyah

  Teaching, Islamic, Ignorance

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• Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Life, Friendship, Wise

  "The Fables of La Fontaine: Book VIII". Book by Jean de La Fontaine, 1678-1679.

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• The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Animal, Men

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• An ignorant friend is worse than a learned foe.

  Brian Herbert

  Foe

  Brian Herbert, Kevin Anderson (2002). “Dune: House Corrino”, p.380, Spectra

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• To the ignorant, even the words of wise seem foolishness.

  Euripides

  Wise, Seems, Foolishness

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• Being both stupid and ignorant is an accomplishment.

  Gene Weingarten

  Stupid, Accomplishment

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• As the condition of America and the world degenerates, it is we who are the weak or the poor or the ignorant who feel it worse.

  Louis Farrakhan

  America, Degenerates, World

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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• The tendency to superstitions should be counteracted from the earliest age; or rather steps should be taken to protect the mind of the child from superstitions imposed upon it by ignorant nurses or silly mothers.

  Arthur Alfred Lynch

  Mother, Children, Silly

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• Through the computer, the heralds say, we will make education better, religion better, politics better, our minds better — best of all, ourselves better. This is, of course, nonsense, and only the young or the ignorant or the foolish could believe it.

  Neil Postman

  Believe, Mind, Computer

  "Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business". Book by Neil Postman, 1985.

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• [T]here seems to have been an actual decline in rational thinking. The United States had become a place where entertainers and professional athletes were mistaken for people of importance. They were idolized and treated as leaders; their opinions were sought on everything and they took themselves just as seriously-after all, if an athlete is paid a million or more a year, he knows he is important ... so his opinions of foreign affairs and domestic policies must be important, too, even though he proves himself to be ignorant and subliterate every time he opens his mouth.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Athlete, Thinking, Media

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• A man who is ignorant of foreign languages is also ignorant of his own language.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Language, Foreign Language

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1853). “Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art”, p.112

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