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"I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know."	Marcus Tullius Cicero
"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
"The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance."	Confucius
"Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon or star."	Confucius
"Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance."	Confucius
"Never let your persistence and passion turn into stubbornness and ignorance."	Anthony J. D'Angelo
"I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure--that is all that agnosticism means."	Clarence Seward Darrow
"I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure-that is all that agnosticism means."	Clarence Seward Darrow
"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
"He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge; and one only evil, namely, ignorance."	Laertius Diogenes
"To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge."	Benjamin "Dizzy" Disraeli
"Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance."	William James "Will" Durant
"His ignorance is encyclopedic."	Abba Eban
"The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance."	George Eliot
"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
"Our ignorance of history makes us libel to our own times. People have always been like this."	Gustave Flaubert
"Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times."	Gustave Flaubert
"Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value."	Jean de La Fontaine
"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
"I'm sure that President Johnson would never have pursued the war in Vietnam if he'd ever had a Fulbright to Japan, or say Bangkok, or had any feeling for what these people are like and why they acted the way they did. He was completely ignorant."	J(ames) William Fulbright
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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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