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  The greatest obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents and the ocean was not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge.
 ~quotes on ignorance by Daniel J. Boorstin, The Discoverers

  A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.
 ~inspirational sayings about Ignorance quotes by Bob Edwards

  Man never knows what he wants; he aspires to penetrate mysteries and as soon as he has, he wants to reestablish them. Ignorance irritates him and knowledge cloys.
 ~ignorance quotes by Amiel, Journal, 1884

  The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.
 ~famous quotes about Ignorance by Mark Twain

  It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
 ~ignorance sayings by Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966

  We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.
 ~quotes on ignorance by Carl Sagan

  Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.
 ~inspirational sayings about Ignorance quotes by Tobias Smollett

  If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
 ~ignorance quotes by Attributed to both Andy McIntyre and Derek Bok

  Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
 ~famous quotes about Attitude by Martin Luther King, Jr.

  If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
 ~ignorance sayings by Isaac Asimov

  Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
 ~quotes on ignorance by Will Durant

  The quintessential revolution is that of the spirit, born of an intellectual conviction of the need for change in those mental attitudes and values which shape the course of a nation's development. A revolution which aims merely at changing official policies and institutions with a view to an improvement in material conditions has little chance of genuine success. Without a revolution in spirit, the forces which had produced inequities of the old order would continue to be operative, posing a constant threat to the process of reform and regeneration. It is not enough merely to call for freedom, democracy and human rights. There has to be a united determination to persevere in the struggle, to make sacrifices in the name of enduring truths, to resist the corrupting influences of desire, ill will, ignorance, and fear.
 ~inspirational sayings about Society quotes by Aung San Suu Kyi

  Dopeler effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.
 ~ignorance quotes by Author unknown, supposedly from a Washington Post reader submission word contest in which readers we

  If you think education is expensive, try ignorance!
 ~famous quotes about Graduation by Andy McIntyre

  Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.
 ~ignorance sayings by Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

   To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.
 ~quotes on ignorance by William Hazlitt

   In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.
 ~good sayings about Nature by John Fowles

   None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The records do not show that Adam and Eve were married.
 ~ignorance quotes by Ed Howe

   A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken
 ~motivational quotes about Housewarming sayings by James Dent

   Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
 ~ignorance sayings by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Drift-Wood

   There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul
 ~quotes on ignorance by Edith Wharton

   As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
 ~good sayings about Carpe Diem by Henry David Thoreau, Economy, Walden, 1854

   A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one.
 ~ignorance quotes by Lord John Russell

   Some people will not tolerate such emotional honesty in communication. They would rather defend their dishonesty on the grounds that it might hurt others. Therefore, having rationalized their phoniness into nobility, they settle for superficial relationships.
 ~motivational quotes about Honesty sayings by Author Unknown

   Life will always remain a gamble, with prizes sometimes for the imprudent, and blanks so often to the wise.
 ~ignorance sayings by Jerome K. Jerome

   Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.
 ~quotes on ignorance by Marie Louise De La Ramee

   Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
 ~good sayings about Procrastination by William James

   Astronomers always work in the past; because light takes time to move from one place to another, they see things as they were, not as they are.
 ~ignorance quotes by Neale E. Howard, The Telescope Handbook and Star Atlas, 1967

   Poker, n. A game said to be played with cards for some purpose to this lexicographer unknown.
 ~motivational quotes about Poker sayings by Ambrose Bierce

   I was told that whistling wasn't ladylike, but I knew even then that women were simply not supposed to be that happy.
 ~ignorance sayings by Anonymous, quoted in Kindling the Spirit by Lois P. Frankel

   Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
 ~quotes on ignorance by Michael Leunig

   Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
 ~good sayings about Goals by T.S. Eliot

   When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.
 ~ignorance quotes by Stanislaw Lec

   Books have to be read (worse luck it takes so long a time). It is the only way of discovering what they contain. A few savage tribes eat them, but reading is the only method of assimilation revealed to the West.
 ~motivational quotes about Books Reading sayings by E.M. Forster

   We Are All Beutiful in are own way
 ~ignorance sayings by me

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