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 | "A man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get
anywhere." | |
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Charles Franklin Kettering
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| "As empty vessels make the loudest sound, so they that have the least
wit are the greatest blabbers." | |
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Plato
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| "Death, in itself, is nothing; but we fear, To be we know not what,
we know not where." | |
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John Dryden
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| "Everybody is ignorant only on different subjects." | |
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Will Rogers
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| "Give me six lines written by an honest man and I will find something
in it with which to hang him." | |
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Cardinal Richelieu
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| "Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in
order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything." | |
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Sydney Smith
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| "He that knows nothing doubts nothing." | |
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George Herbert
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| "He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing." | |
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Sallust
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| "I count religion but a childish toy, And hold there is no sin but
ignorance." | |
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Christopher Marlowe
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| "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn"t learn something
from him." | |
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Galileo Galilei
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| "I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity." | |
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Marcus Tullius Cicero
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| "If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away
from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest." | |
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Benjamin Franklin
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| "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of
civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." | |
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Thomas Jefferson
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| "If capital an? labor ever do git t?gether it?s good night fer th?
rest of us." | |
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Frank McKinney "Kin" Hubbard
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| "If ifs and ands were pots and pans there"d be no work for the
tinkers." | |
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Thomas Love Peacock
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| "If it isn"t one thing, it"s another, unless it"s neither." | |
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Unknown
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| "If there is no struggle, there is no progress." | |
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Frederick Douglass
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| "If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we
could then better judge what to do, and how to do it." | |
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Abraham Lincoln
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| "If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and
blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But
make allowance for their doubting too: If you can wait and not be tired by
waiting, Or being lied about, don"t deal in lies, Or being hated, don"t
give way to hating, And yet don"t look too good, nor talk too wise." | |
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Rudyard Kipling
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| "If you don"t learn to laugh at troubles, you won"t have anything to
laugh at when you grow old." | |
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Edgar Watson "Ed" Howe
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| "If you have a job without aggravations, you don"t have a job." | |
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Malcolm S. Forbes
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| "If you stop to be kind, you must swerve often from your path." | |
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Mary Webb
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| "If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man,
don"t bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, of weeping,
or seeing how much he is moved by noble ideas; you"ll get better results
if you just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he"s a good man." | |
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Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
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| "IGNORAMUS, n. A person unacquainted with certain kinds of knowledge
familiar to yourself, and having certain other kinds that you know nothing
about." | |
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Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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| "Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities." | |
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George Eliot
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| "Ignorance is a voluntary condition." | |
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Herbert V. Prochnow
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| "Ignorance is not bliss ? it is oblivion." | |
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Philip Wylie
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| "Ignorance is not innocence but sin." | |
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Robert Browning
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| "Ignorance is the curse of God, Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly
to heaven." | |
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William Shakespeare
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| "Ignorant men don"t know what good they hold in their hands until
they"ve flung it away." | |
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Sophocles
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| "It is a blind goose that cometh to the fox"s sermon." | |
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John Lyly
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| "It is better to know nothing than to know what ain"t so." | |
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Josh Billings
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| "It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance
is never better than knowledge." | |
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Enrico Fermi
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| "Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by
education." | |
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Bertrand Russell
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| "Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don?t know because we don?t
want to know." | |
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Aldous Huxley
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| "Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be
preferred." | |
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Jean de la La Fontaine
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| "Real knowledge is to know the extent of ones ignorance." | |
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Kung Fu-tzu Confucius
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| "Reason obeys itself; and ignorance does whatever is dictated to
it." | |
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Thomas Paine
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| "So long as the mother, Ignorance, lives, it is not safe for Science
the offspring, to divulge the hidden causes of things." | |
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Johannes Kepler
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| "The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber
in his head." | |
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Alexander Pope
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| "The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own
ignorance." | |
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Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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| "The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of
the human mind to correlate all its contents." | |
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Howard Phillip Lovecraft
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| "The most violent element in society is ignorance." | |
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Emma Goldman
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| "The road to Hell is paved with good intentions." | |
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Dr. Samuel Johnson
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| "There is no slavery but ignorance." | |
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Robert Green Ingersoll
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| "There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action." | |
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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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| "There is often as much independence in not being led, as in not
being driven." | |
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Tryon Edwards
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| "There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance." | |
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Socrates
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| "Though science can cause problems, it is not by ignorance that we
will solve them." | |
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Isaac Asimov
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| "To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to
knowledge." | |
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Benjamin Disraeli
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| "To be ignorant of one"s ignorance is the malady of the
ignorant." | |
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Amos Bronson Alcott
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| "To each his suff"rings; all are men, Condemn"d alike to groan,? The
tender for another"s pain, Th" unfeeling for his own. Yet ah! why should
they know their fate, Since sorrow never comes too late, And happiness too
swiftly flies? Thought would destroy their paradise. No more; where
ignorance is bliss, "T is folly to be wise." | |
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Thomas Gray
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| "We don"t know a millionth of one percent about anything." | |
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Thomas Alva Edison
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| "We prove what we want to prove, and the real difficulty is to know
what we want to prove." | |
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Émile Auguste Chartier
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| "Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real
peace." | |
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The Dalai Lama
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| "Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such
desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions,
perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the
music which he hears, however measured or faraway." | |
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Henry David Thoreau
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