"Ignorance of the law is no excuse in any country. If it were, the laws would lose their effect, because it can always be pretended."
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"Ignorance is curable, stupid is forever."
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"To know that you do not know is the best. To pretend to know when you do not know is a disease."
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"Ignorance of each other is what has made unity impossible in the past. Therefore we need enlightenment. We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity. Once we have more knowledge (light) about each other, we will stop condemning each other and a United front will be brought about."
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"I seek the truth...it is only persistence in self-delusion and ignorance that does harm."
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"The road to ignorance is paved with good editors."
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"There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people."
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"In Buddhism, ignorance as the root cause of suffering refers to a fundamental misperception of the true nature of the self and all phenomena."
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"Neither do the ignorant love wisdom or desire to become wise; for this is the grievous thing about ignorance, that those who are neither good nor beautiful think they are good enough, and do not desire that which they do not think they are lacking."
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"It is bad enough that people are dying of AIDS, but no one should die of ignorance."
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"There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept."
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"Compassion is the basis of morality."
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"I should have liked to be asked to say what I knew. They always tried to ask what I did not know. When I would have willingly displayed my knowledge, they sought to expose my ignorance. This sort of treatment had only one result: I did not do well in examinations"
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"There is nothing new to gain. On the other hand a man must lose his ignorance. That is all."
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"You're afraid of making mistakes. Don't be. Mistakes can be profited by. Man, when I was young I shoved my ignorance in people's faces. They beat me with sticks. By the time I was forty my blunt instrument had been honed to a fine cutting point for me. If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn."
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"The tax which will be paid for the purpose of education is not more than the thousandth part of what will be paid to kings, priests and nobles who will rise up among us if we leave the people in ignorance"
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"Sometimes in the ignorance I feel the meaning Invincible invisible wisdom, And I commune with intuitive instinct With the force that made life be And since it made life be It is greater than life And since it let extinction be It is greater than extinction. I commune with feelings more than prayer"
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"The clergy, no less than the capitalist class, lives on the backs of the people, profits from the degradation, the ignorance and the oppression of the people."
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"The greatest impurity is ignorance. Free yourself from it. Be pure."
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"Where there is no knowledge ignorance calls itself science."
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