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"A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep." Saul Bellow 4.6923 average rating Rate this Quote
"A man who does not know foreign language is ignorant of his own." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 4.6667 average rating Rate this Quote
"A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to Farce, or a Tragedy, or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance. and a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives." James Madison 4.4000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant." Epictetus 4.8000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way." Bokonon 4.2667 average rating Rate this Quote
"Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives." Maya Angelou 4.3333 average rating Rate this Quote
"Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago." Bernard Berenson 4.2222 average rating Rate this Quote
"Dopeler effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly." Author Unknown 3.5000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance." William James "Will" Durant 4.7333 average rating Rate this Quote
"Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance." William Ellery Channing 4.6667 average rating Rate this Quote
"Fortunately science, like that nature to which it belongs, is neither limited by time nor by space. It belongs to the world, and is of no country and no age. The more we know, the more we feel our ignorance; the more we feel how much remains unknown." Humphrey Davy 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Half of the world's misery comes from ignorance. The other half comes from intelligence." Baslo 4.6000 average rating Rate this Quote
"He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge; and one only evil, namely, ignorance." Laertius Diogenes 4.6667 average rating Rate this Quote
"He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads." Charles Caleb Colton Rate this Quote
"He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on." Benjamin Franklin 3.8000 average rating Rate this Quote
"His ignorance is encyclopedic." Abba Eban 3.5000 average rating Rate this Quote
"His mother called such people ignorant and superstitious, but his father only shook his head slowly and puffed his pipe and said that sometimes old stories had a grain or two of truth in them and it was best not to take chances. It was why, he said, he crossed himself whenever a black cat crossed his path." Stephen King 4.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"How do you know so much about everything? was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant." Lord Billingsley 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know." Marcus Tullius Cicero 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance." Thomas Carlyle 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
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