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"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
"I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance."	Thomas Carlyle
"I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know."	Marcus Tullius Cicero
"The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance."	Confucius
"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
"Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times."	Gustave Flaubert
"Nothing is as terrible to see as ignorance in action."	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"The little I know, I owe to my ignorance."	Sacha Guitry
"If ignorance paid dividends, most Americans could make a fortune out of what they don't know about economics."	Luther H. Hodges
"Ignorance is the mother of fear."	Harry Homes
"The chess board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, just, and patient. But we also know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance."	Thomas Henry Huxley
"What I want to fix your attention on is the vast overall movement towards the discrediting, and finally the elimination, of every kind of human excellence -- moral, cultural, social or intellectual. And is it not pretty to notice how 'democracy' (in the incantatory sense) is now doing for us the work that was once done by the most ancient dictatorships, and by the same methods? The basic proposal of the new education is to be that dunces and idlers must not be made to feel inferior to intelligent and industrious pupils. That would be 'undemocratic.' Children who are fit to proceed may be artificially kept back, because the others would get a trauma by being left behind. The bright pupil thus remains democratically fettered to his own age group throughout his school career, and a boy who would be capable of tackling Aeschylus or Dante sits listening to his coeval's attempts to spell out A CAT SAT ON A MAT. We may reasonably hope for the virtual abolition of education when 'I'm as good as you' has fully had its way. All incentives to learn and all penalties for not learning will vanish. The few who might want to learn will be prevented; who are they to overtop their fellows? And anyway, the teachers -- or should I say nurses? -- will be far too busy reassuring the dunces and patting them on the back to waste any time on real teaching. We shall no longer have to plan and toil to spread imperturbable conceit and incurable ignorance among men."	Clive Staples Lewis
"The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right."	Mark Twain
"If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy people?"	Author Unknown
"We have enough youth, how about a fountain of smart?"	Author Unknown
"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than a sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."	Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon or star."	Confucius
"True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance."	Akhenaton
"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -- it is the illusion of knowledge."	Daniel J(oseph) Boorstin
"If you think education is expensive, try ignorance."	Derek Curtis Bok
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Anthony J. D'Angelo	Author Unknown	Baslo
Benjamin Franklin	Benjamin "Dizzy" Disraeli	Bernard Berenson
Bertrand Russell	Bokonon	Charles Caleb Colton
Charles J. C. Lyall	Clarence Seward Darrow	Clive Staples Lewis
Confucius	Daniel J(oseph) Boorstin	Derek Curtis Bok
Emma Goldman	Epictetus	George Eliot
Gustave Flaubert	G Gaia	Harry Homes
Henry Brooks Adams	Henry Graham Greene	Henry Thomas Buckle
Humphrey Davy	Isaac Asimov	James Madison
James Russel Lowell	Jean de La Fontaine	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
John Knowles	John Masefield	J(ames) William Fulbright
Kahlil Gibran	Laertius Diogenes	Lee C. Bollinger
Lord Billingsley	Lord John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton	Luther H. Hodges
Marcus Tullius Cicero	Mark Twain	Martin Luther King, Jr.
Maya Angelou	Michael Masukawa	Richard David Bach
Sacha Guitry	Saul Bellow	Stephen King
Thomas Carlyle	Thomas Henry Huxley	Titus Livius
William Hazlitt	William Ellery Channing	William James "Will" Durant
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