Quotes with ignorance

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  • Will Durant Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
    Will Durant
    American writer, historian, and philosopher (1885 - 1981)
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  • John Locke Sophistry is only fit to make men more conceited in their ignorance.
    John Locke
    English philosopher (1632 - 1704)
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  • Charles Edward Jerningham Superior knowledge is a mistake; that which rules the world is superior ignorance.
    The maxims of Marmaduke
    Charles Edward Jerningham
    English aphorist (1854 - 1921)
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  • Robert Eldridge Willmott The amplest knowledge has the largest faith. Ignorance is always incredulous.
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  • George Eliot The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Blaise Pascal The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.
    Pensees
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Charles Haddon Spurgeon The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is the knowledge of our own ignorance.
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon
    English Baptist preacher (1834 - 1892)
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  • Confucius The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Albert Camus The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Bela Lugosi The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
    Bela Lugosi
    Hungarian-American actor (1882 - 1956)
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  • Carl Sagan The gears of poverty, ignorance, hopelessness and low self-esteem interact to create a kind of perpetual failure machine that grinds down dreams from generation to generation. We all bear the cost of keeping it running. Illiteracy is its linchpin.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • John F. Kennedy The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Sir William Osler The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.
    Sir William Osler
    Canadian Physician (1849 - 1919)
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  • Daniel J. Boorstin The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.
    Daniel J. Boorstin
    American historian (1914 - 2004)
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  • Baruch Spinoza The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Wayne Dyer The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.
    Wayne Dyer
    American philosopher, self-help author, and a motivational speaker. (1940 - 2015)
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  • Alfred Marshall The hope that poverty and ignorance may gradually be extinguished, derives indeed much support from the steady progress of the working classes during the nineteenth century.
    Alfred Marshall
    British economist (1842 - 1924)
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  • Alfred Marshall The hope that poverty and ignorance may gradually be extinguished, derives indeed much support from the steady progress of the working classes during the nineteenth century.
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  • John F. Kennedy The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Louise Erdrich The length of sky is just about the size of my ignorance. Pure and wide.
    Liefdesmedicijn (2010) 37
    Louise Erdrich
    American author (1954 - )
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