"Ignorance Protects itself, And protected, Ignorance grows."
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"Where there is ignorance, sickness will thrive."
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"Information is bad for knowledge."
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"Learn to differentiate between ignorance and stupidity."
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"Science literacy is a vaccine against the charlatans of the world that would exploit your ignorance."
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"As areas of knowledge grow, so too do the perimeters of ignorance."
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"Monks, when ignorance is abandoned, and knowledge arises in the monk, with the ending of ignorance and the arising of knowledge he clings neither to sense-pleasures, nor does he cling to views, nor to precepts and vows, nor to a Self-doctrine. Not clinking, he is not disturbed; not disturbed, he attains individually nibbana."
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"It is ignorance that smothers, and it is carelessness that makes it invisible. The hunger of craving pollutes the world, and the pain of suffering causes the greatest fear."
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"I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know."
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"Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down."
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"It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog."
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"We need limitations and temptations to open our inner selves, dispel our ignorance, tear off disguises, throw down old idols, and destroy false standards. Only by such rude awakenings can we be led to dwell in a place where we are less cramped, less hindered by the ever-insistent External. Only then do we discover a new capacity and appreciation of goodness and beauty and truth."
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"We have faith that future generations will know here, in the middle of the twentieth century, there came a time when men of good will found a way to unite, and produce, and fight to destroy the forces of ignorance, and intolerance, and slavery, and war."
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"The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless."
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"Ignorance and prejudice are the ballast of our ship of state - however, ships without ballast are not seaworthy and cannot sail in the tempests, nor reach a safe harbor."
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"Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts."
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"Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US."
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"The only solid piece of scientific truth about which I feel totally confident is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature... It is this sudden confrontation with the depth and scope of ignorance that represents the most significant contribution of twentieth-century science to the human intellect."
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"Never put off until tomorrow what you can avoid altogether. A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer. All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure."
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"Now, there are two ways to approach a subject that frightens you and makes you feel stupid: you can embrace it with humility and an open mind, or you can ridicule it mercilessly."
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