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#1

“It's an universal law-- intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated person behaves with arrogant impatience, whereas truly profound education breeds humility.”
― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

tags: august-1914, ignorance, prejudice, tolerance

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#2

“All things truly wicked start from innocence.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: ignorance, innocence, wickedness

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#3

“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
― Aldous Huxley, Complete Essays, Vol. II: 1926-1929

tags: fact, ignorance, truth

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#4

“You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.”
― Harlan Ellison

tags: ignorance, intelligence, opinions, stupidity

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#5

“Prejudice is a product of ignorance that hides behind barriers of tradition.”
― Jasper Fforde, The Fourth Bear

tags: ignorance

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#6

“I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.”
― Adlai E. Stevenson II

tags: beliefs, forgiveness, ignorance, politics

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#7

“Ignorance is the parent of fear.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

tags: education, fear, ignorance

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#8

“Inexperience can be overcome, ignorance can be enlightened, but prejudice will destroy you.”
― Mercedes Lackey, The Black Gryphon

tags: amberdrake, ignorance, inexperience, mercedes-lackey, prejudice

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#9

“It is always a much easier task to educate uneducated people than to re-educate the mis-educated.”
― Herbert M. Shelton, Getting Well

tags: education, ignorance, indoctrination, propaganda

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#10

“I rememeber asking a wise man, once . . . 'Why do Men fear the dark?' . . . 'Because darkness' he told me, 'is ignorance made visible.' 'And do Men despise ignorance?' I asked. 'No,' he said, 'they prize it above all things--all things!--but only so long as it remains invisible.”
― R. Scott Bakker, The Judging Eye

tags: dark, fear, ignorance, pg-323

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#11

“Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: humor, ignorance, knowledge, wisdom

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#12

“we have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood”
― William James

tags: belief, ignorance, knowledge, wisdom

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#13

“The truth is like salt. Men want to taste a little, but too much makes everyone sick.”
― Joe Abercrombie, The Heroes

tags: ignorance, knowledge, truth

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#14

“Everyone has a sense of humor. If you don't laugh at jokes, you probably laugh at opinions.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: be-yourself, being-yourself, clever, comedic, differences, everyone, funny, funny-but-true, humor, ignorance, jokes, laughter, mockery, opinions, personality, personality-types, sense-of-humor, similarities, stupidity, traits, types, witty

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#15

“Often, the greater our ignorance about something, the greater our resistance to change.”
― Marc Bekoff, Animals Matter: A Biologist Explains Why We Should Treat Animals with Compassion and Respect

tags: animal-rights, dictator, evil, ignorance, specieism, vegan

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#16

“Only a blind man can easily define what light is. When you do not know, you are bold. Ignorance is always bold; knowledge hesitates. And the more you know, the more you feel that the ground underneath is dissolving. The more you know, the more you feel how ignorant you are.”
― Osho, The Book of Secrets

tags: ignorance, knowledge

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#17

“in times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: ignorance, knowledge, remaining-silent, wisdom

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#18

“The shortest route to courage is absolute ignorance.”
― Dan Simmons, Endymion

tags: courage, ignorance

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#19

“We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.”
― John Archibald Wheeler

tags: ignorance, knowledge, reality

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#20

“We have a large public that is very ignorant about public affairs and very susceptible to simplistic slogans by candidates who appear out of nowhere, have no track record, but mouth appealing slogans”
― Zbigniew Brzezinski

tags: americans, ignorance, politics, populism

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#21

“What are you doing in a fast lane, snail?”
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

tags: ignorance

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#22

“Naive keeps on dreaming of heaven on earth,
ignoring the truth that even heavens are at war.”
― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

tags: ignorance, keep-on-dreaming

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#23

“mystery is not founded in ignorance, mystery is founded in imagination”
― S. Spencer Baker, Slabscape: Reset

tags: humour, ignorance, imagination, mystery

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#24

“A fool can easily be known(identified) by what proceeds from his or her mouth.”
― Adedayo kingjerry

tags: ignorance, knowledge, wisdom

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#25

“Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens.”
― William Beveridge

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