ignorance Quotes

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

― Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

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“People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile

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“the most violent element in society is ignorance”

― Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays

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“right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain't got no business doing wrong when he ain't ignorant and knows better.”

― Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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“If youth were not ignorant and timid, civilization would be impossible.”

― Honoré de Balzac, Father Goriot

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“His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge. Of contemporary literature, philosophy and politics he appeared to know next to nothing.”

― Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet

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“I was a young man who attempted to make up for his ignorance with militancy.”

― Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom

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“for its vain splendour we go into the fire, thus blind ignorance does mislead us.”

― Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci

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“Ignorance is the parent of fear”

― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

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“Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance in another, can hardly have much truth left.”

― Jane Austen, Persuasion

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