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A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.

Aldous Huxley

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

Benjamin Franklin

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A man profits more by the sight of an idiot than by the orations of the learned.

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A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.

Anatole France

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Being ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to learn.

Benjamin Franklin

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Better to ask a question than to remain ignorant.

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Better to be ignorant of a matter than half know it.

Publilius Syrus

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Everybody is ignorant -- only on different subjects.

Will Rogers

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Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.

Sydney Smith

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He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.

Benjamin Franklin

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I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.

Clarence Darrow

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I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know.

Cicero

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I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

Thomas Carlyle

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I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.

Clarence Darrow

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I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have so much of it.

Mark Twain

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If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people jumping up and down for joy.

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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

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Ignorance is like a delicate fruit; touch it, and the bloom is gone.

Oscar Wilde

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Ignorance is never out of style. It was in fashion yesterday, it is the rage today and it will set the pace tomorrow.

Frank Dane

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Ignorance is not bliss -- ignorance is ignorance.

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Ignorance is not innocence, but sin.

Robert Browning

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Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Confucius

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Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.

Euripides

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Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge...

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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In the battle for survival the ignorant man has a considerable advantage.

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It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge.

Arnold H. Glasgow

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Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.

Bertrand Russell

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Most ignorance is evincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.

Aldous Huxley

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Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.

Eric Hoffer

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Never forget public ignorance is the government's best friend.

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Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.

William Osler

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The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.

Baruch Spinoza

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The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.

Wayne Dyer

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The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.

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The reason there's so much ignorance is that those who have it are so eager to share it.

Frank A. Clark

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The sage awakes to light in the night of all creatures. That which the world calls day is the night of ignorance to the wise.

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There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund of conversation.

William Hazlitt

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There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance-that principle is contempt prior to investigation.

Herbert Spencer

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There is no darkness, but ignorance.

William Shakespeare

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To be conscience that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield

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To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.

Amos Bronson Alcott

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What you don't know can't hurt you .

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When I was fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. When I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.

Mark Twain

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You must not enthrone ignorance just because there is much of it.

Ignorance

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A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.

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

A man profits more by the sight of an idiot than by the orations of the learned.

A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to learn.

Better to ask a question than to remain ignorant.

Better to be ignorant of a matter than half know it.

Everybody is ignorant -- only on different subjects.

Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.

He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.

I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.

I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know.

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.

I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have so much of it.

If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people jumping up and down for joy.

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

Ignorance is like a delicate fruit; touch it, and the bloom is gone.

Ignorance is never out of style. It was in fashion yesterday, it is the rage today and it will set the pace tomorrow.

Ignorance is not bliss -- ignorance is ignorance.

Ignorance is not innocence, but sin.

Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.

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

Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.

Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge...

In the battle for survival the ignorant man has a considerable advantage.

It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.

Most ignorance is evincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.

Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.

Never forget public ignorance is the government's best friend.

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.

The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.

The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.

The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.

The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.

The reason there's so much ignorance is that those who have it are so eager to share it.

The sage awakes to light in the night of all creatures. That which the world calls day is the night of ignorance to the wise.

There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund of conversation.

There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance-that principle is contempt prior to investigation.

There is no darkness, but ignorance.

To be conscience that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.

What you don't know can't hurt you .

When I was fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. When I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.

You must not enthrone ignorance just because there is much of it.