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Ignorance Quotes
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The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding. (Quote by - Albert Camus )
All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation. (Quote by - John Adams)
In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance. (Quote by - Henry Miller)
It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder. (Quote by - Joseph Wood Krutch)
Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance. (Quote by - Hippocrates)
I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art. (Quote by - Kahlil Gibran)
Be ignorance thy choice, where knowledge leads to woe. (Quote by - James Beattie)
Against stupidity the very gods Themselves contend in vain. (Quote by - Friedrich von Schiller)
It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though limits to our abilities do not exist. (Quote by - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin)
Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects. (Quote by - Will Rogers)
The trouble with people is not that they don't know but that they know so much that ain't so. (Quote by - Josh Billings)
It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics. (Quote by - Richard Dawkins)
I have always wanted to be somebody, but I see now I should have been more specific. (Quote by - Lily Tomlin)
If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it, at any rate, brag. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)