ignorance Quotes

“She said that I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of a lack of knowledge.”

― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

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“there is no darknessbut ignorance;”

― William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

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“Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.”

― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World

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“Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.”

― Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams

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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, Notes on the State of Virginia

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“The evil that is in the world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding. On the whole, men are more good than bad; that, however, isn't the real point.”

― Albert Camus, The Plague

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“nothing is so firmly believed, as what we least know;”

― Michel de Montaigne, The Essays of Michel de Montaigne

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“In the long run, a hierarchical society was only possible on a basis of poverty and ignorance.”

― George Orwell, 1984

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“RELIGION, n. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.”

― Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

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“LEARNING, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.”

― Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

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