Quotes with ignorance

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  • Samuel Johnson All wonder is the effect of novelty on ignorance.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Mark Twain All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Will Rogers America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Benjamin Tucker And capital punishment, however ineffective it may be and through whatever ignorance it may be resorted to, is a strictly defensive act, - at least in theory.
    Benjamin Tucker
    American anarchist and socialist (1854 - 1939)
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  • William Shakespeare And seeing ignorance is the curse of God, Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
    Henry VI 4, 7
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • P. J. O'Rourke Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
    P. J. O'Rourke
    American journalist (1947 - )
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  • Ben Johnson Art has an enemy called ignorance.
    Ben Johnson
    English playwright and poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Jeremy Collier Atheism is the result of ignorance and pride; of strong sense and feeble reasons; of good eating and ill living.
    Jeremy Collier
    English theatre critic, non-juror bishop and theologian (1650 - 1726)
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  • James Beattie Be ignorance thy choice, where knowledge leads to woe.
    James Beattie
    Scottish poet, moralist and philosopher (1735 - 1803)
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  • Plotinus Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being. We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
    Plotinus
    Roman philosopher (205 - 270)
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  • Kurt Vonnegut Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before, Bokonon tells us. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.
    Kurt Vonnegut
    American writer (1922 - 2007)
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  • Susan Ertz Boredom comes simply from ignorance and lack of imagination.
    Anger in the Sky
    Susan Ertz
    British novelist (1894 - 1985)
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  • Carlos Fuentes Children know how to be cruel, and the cruelty of their elders is the surest residue of the malaise the young feel toward things strange, things other, things that reveal our own ignorance or insufficiency.
    Carlos Fuentes
    Mexican novelist and essayist (1928 - 2012)
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  • Maya Angelou Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.
    Maya Angelou
    African-American poet and writer (1928 - 2014)
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  • Gordon B. Hinckley Conflict grows out of ignorance and suspicion.
    Gordon B. Hinckley
    American religious leader and author (1910 - 2008)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Elbert Hubbard Dignity is a mask we wear to hide our ignorance.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Bertrand Russell Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.
    Unpopular Essays
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Will Durant Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance.
    Will Durant
    American writer, historian, and philosopher (1885 - 1981)
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  • Will Durant Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
    Will Durant
    American writer, historian, and philosopher (1885 - 1981)
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