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So long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Miserables cannot fail to be of use.
I envy animals for two things - their ignorance of evil to come, and their ignorance of what is said about them.
An ignorance of means may minister to greatness, but an ignorance of aims make it impossible to be great at all.
Knowledge is not happiness, and science But an exchange of ignorance for that Which is another kind of ignorance.
Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.
That's maturity-when you realize that you've finally arrived at a state of ignorance as profound as your parents.
To predict the future we would have to know today what we will learn tomorrow which will shape our future actions
Ignorance ... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.
Religions are illogical primitive ignorance. There is nothing as ridiculous and tragic as a religious government.
In my country we say that ignorance is the warm bath in which it is comfortable to sit but dangerous to lie down.
Bigotry is ever the child of ignorance, and the cultivation of the understanding is the only radical cure for it.
Love transcends international boundaries. It heals the wounds of racial hatred, prejudice, bigotry and ignorance.
I'm not trying to frighten you, but only a fool makes predictions based on ignorance; I am not that sort of fool.
Sixty years ago I knew everything. Now I know nothing. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
If they exert it not for good, they will for evil; if they advance not knowledge, they will perpetuate ignorance.
I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance.
I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.
Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.
The devil lives in our mistakes, the lord lives in our rights. Who lives in our ignorance, and who wins after all?
The lottery is a tax on ignorance, and all the losers that play the game are paying the price for their stupidity.
Cowards never win victories. We have to fight fear and troubles and ignorance if we expect them to flee before us.
Marriage or non-marriage, good or evil, learning or ignorance, any of these is justified, if it leads to the goal.
Sometimes it's best to speak from ignorance: that way, you can see the wood without being distracted by the trees.
You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.
...not everyone is willing to defend a position of 'not knowing.' There is no virtue in ignorance for its own sake.
The two pillars of 'political correctness' are, a) willful ignorance, and b) a steadfast refusal to face the truth.
Ignorance and its hand-maidens, prejudice, intolerance, suspicion of our fellowman, breed dictators and breed wars.
It is very unfair in any writer to employ ignorance and malice together, because it gives his answerer double work.
And I have written three books on the soul, Proving absurd all written hitherto, And putting us to ignorance again.
Teachers must be celebrated for moving civilization from ignorance to enlightenment, from apathy to responsibility.
Ignorance of the law is no good excuse, where every man is bound to take notice of the laws to which he is subject.
Doubt is the middle position between knowledge and ignorance. It encompasses cynicism but also genuine questioning.
Those who judge children in their innocence, prove themselves the lesser of character and the greater of ignorance.
The more we know, the better we realize that our knowledge is a little island in the midst of an ocean of ignorance.
When ignorant folks want to advertise their ignorance, you don't really have to do anything, you just let them talk.
The dumbing down of America is evident in the slow decay of substantive content, a kind of celebration of ignorance.
The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.
It is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in and settleth in it, that doth the hurt.
As long as you exist, you are aware of the manifest universes through the senses, through feelings and through mind.
The savage lives simply through ignorance and idleness or laziness, but the philosopher lives simply through wisdom.
A learned man is not learned in all things; but a sufficient man is sufficient throughout, even to ignorance itself.
What is hid is unknown: for what is unknown there is no desire. [Lat., Quod latet ignotum est; ignoti nulla cupido.]
Just try to be yourself and resist complacency and ignorance. All you can do is work, work; work and be disciplined.
We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill.
Diversification is a protection against ignorance. It makes very little sense for those who know what they're doing.
Ignorance is the beginning of knowledge; knowledge is the beginning of wisdom; wisdom is the awareness of ignorance.
Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.
Throught human history, illusions of knowledge, not ignorance, have proven to be the principal obstacles to discovery
Ignorance is never out of style. It was in fashion yesterday, it is the rage today and it will set the pace tomorrow.