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    Lao Tzu
    “To know that you do not know is the best.
    To think you know when you do not is a disease.
    Recognizing this disease as a disease is to be free of it.”
    ― Lao Tzu
    tags: ignorance, knowledge
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    Aldous Huxley
    “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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    Mark Twain
    “When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: arrogance, humor, ignorance
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr.
    tags: ignorance
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    Harlan Ellison
    “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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    Daniel J. Boorstin
    “The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.”
    ― Daniel J. Boorstin
    tags: misattributed-stephen-hawking
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    John Lennon
    “Living is Easy with Eyes Closed.”
    ― John Lennon
    tags: beatles, blindness, ignorance, life
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    Isaac Asimov
    “There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
    ― Isaac Asimov
    tags: anti-intellectualism, cult, culture, democracy, ignorance, intellectual, political, politics, united-states, willful-ignorance
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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Collected Works
    tags: bigotry, ignorance, life, prejudice
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “All things truly wicked start from innocence.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: ignorance, innocence, wickedness
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara
    tags: arrogance, ignorance, politicians, politics
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    John Marsden
    “We kill all the caterpillars, then complain there are no butterflies.”
    ― John Marsden, The Dead of Night
    tags: ignorance, nature
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    Isaac Newton
    “I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.”
    ― Isaac Newton
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    Noam Chomsky
    “Education is a system of imposed ignorance.”
    ― Noam Chomsky, Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
    tags: education, homeschooling, ignorance, public-education
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    Voltaire
    “Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.”
    ― Voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary
    tags: conformism, disregard, ignorance, innovation, persecution, reformers, trailblazers
    573 likes

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    John Fitzgerald Kennedy
    “There is nothing in the record of the past two years when both Houses of Congress have been controlled by the Republican Party which can lead any person to believe that those promises will be fulfilled in the future. They follow the Hitler line - no matter how big the lie; repeat it often enough and the masses will regard it as truth.”
    ― John F. Kennedy
    tags: disinformation, hype, ignorance, indoctrination, influence, misquoted, power, propaganda
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    Saul Bellow
    “A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.”
    ― Saul Bellow, To Jerusalem and Back
    tags: avoidance, ignorance, illusion, intelligence, self-deception
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    Victor Cousin
    “If ignorance is bliss, there should be more happy people.”
    ― Victor Cousin, Œuvres de Victor Cousin: Introduction L'Histoire de La Philosophie. Cours de L'Histoire de La Philosophie. Cours de Philosophie Sur Le Fondemen
    tags: ignorance
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    Thomas Aquinas
    “Beware the man of a single book.”
    ― St. Thomas Aquinas
    tags: books-reading, ignorance, illiteracy, limitation
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    Kofi Annan
    “Ignorance and prejudice are the handmaidens of propaganda. Our mission, therefore, is to confront ignorance with knowledge, bigotry with tolerance, and isolation with the outstretched hand of generosity. Racism can, will, and must be defeated.”
    ― Kofi Annan
    tags: ignorance, intolerance, prejudice, racism, tolerance
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    Herman Melville
    “Ignorance is the parent of fear.”
    ― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
    tags: education, fear, ignorance
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    Robert Orben
    “If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.”
    ― Robert Orben
    tags: education, ignorance, misattributed-derek-bok
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    Joe Abercrombie
    “Travel brings wisdom only to the wise. It renders the ignorant more ignorant than ever.”
    ― Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings
    tags: ignorance, travel, wisdom
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    Milan Kundera
    “A man is responsible for his ignorance.”
    ― Milan Kundera, Laughable Loves
    tags: ignorance, man, men, resonsibility, willful-ignorance
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “Occasionally he stumbled over the truth, but hastily picked himself up and hurried on as if nothing had happened.”
    ― Winston Churchill
    tags: ignorance, truth
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    Joe Abercrombie
    “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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    Seneca
    “Timendi causa est nescire -
    Ignorance is the cause of fear.”
    ― Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Natural Questions
    tags: fear, ignorance, knowledge, life
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
    tags: act-i, ignorance
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    Frederick Douglass
    “Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.”
    ― Frederick Douglass
    tags: class, class-struggle, class-warfare, conspiracy, denial, ignorance, inequity, justice, oppression, society, society-denial
    609 likes

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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Fear always springs
    from ignorance.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: fear, ignorance
    239 likes



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