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Ignorance has always been the weapon of tyrants; enlightenment the salvation of the free.
Bill Richardson
Envy comes from people's ignorance of, or lack of belief in, their own gifts.
Jean Vanier
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
Derek Bok
Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts; for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance.
William Wirt
A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance.
Gian Carlo Menotti
We receive the truths of science by compulsion. Nothing but ignorance is able to resist them.
Chauncey Wright
If they exert it not for good, they will for evil; if they advance not knowledge, they will perpetuate ignorance.
Frances Wright
We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.
John Archibald Wheeler
There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life.
Mary Wortley
To try to write a grand cosmical drama leads necessarily to myth. To try to let knowledge substitute ignorance in increasingly larger regions of space and time is science.
Hannes Alfven
Most criticism of advertising is written in ignorance of what actually happens inside these agencies.
Michael Schudson
My boyhood life in New York City has impressed me with the popular ignorance and also with the great need of something better than local lore and weather proverbs.
Cleveland Abbe
Backward is just not a natural direction for Americans to look - historical ignorance remains a national characteristic.
Larry McMurtry
I could never accept findings based almost exclusively on mathematics. It ain't ignorance that causes all the trouble in this world. It's the things people know that ain't so.
Edwin Armstrong
What I love about the East End is that there's a great perseverance, determination and courage. What I dislike about it is that there is sometimes a celebration of ignorance.
Eddie Marsan
Of all the wastes of human ignorance perhaps the most extravagant and costly to human growth has been the waste of the distinctive powers of womanhood after the child-bearing age.
Anna Garlin Spencer
Without feeling abashed by my ignorance, I confess that I am absolutely unable to say. In the absence of an appearance of learning, my answer has at least one merit, that of perfect sincerity.
Jean Henri Fabre
We are born knowing nothing and with much striving we learn but a little; yet all the while we are bound by laws that hearken to no plea of ignorance, and measure out their rewards and punishments with calm indifference.
Paul Elmer More
I don't think you can ever regain your ignorance.
Carla Bley
Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.
William Safire
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