"One's ignorance is one's chief asset."
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"Diversification is protection against ignorance. It makes little sense if you know what you are doing."
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"Adventure is putting one's ignorance into motion."
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"There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant"
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"That there should one man die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call a tragedy."
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"Religious leaders will always avail themselves of public ignorance for their own purpose."
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"No nation is permitted to live in ignorance with impunity"
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"May [our Declaration of Independence] be to the world, what I believe it will be (to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to all), the signal of arousing men to burst the chains under which monkish ignorance and superstition had persuaded them to bind themselves, and to assume the blessings and security of self-government... All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man."
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"The self has no boundaries except those it accepts out of ignorance"
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"I must first know myself, as the Delphian inscription says; to be curious about that which is not my concern, while I am still in ignorance of my own self, would be ridiculous. And therefore I bid farewell to all this; the common opinion is enough for me. For, as I was saying, I want to know not about this, but about myself: am I a monster more complicated and swollen with passion than the serpent Typho, or a creature of a gentler and simpler sort, to whom Nature has given a diviner and lowlier destiny?"
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"To attempt social reform, educational reform, industrial expansion, the moral improvement of the race without aiming, first and foremost, at political freedom is the very height of ignorance and futility."
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"The next great transfer of wealth WILL take place, not by conspiracy but by ignorance."
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"We believe that every being is divine, is God. Every soul is a sun covered over with clouds of ignorance; the difference between soul and soul is owing to the difference in density of these layers of clouds."
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"The combination of fear and ignorance (two sides of the same coin) can be paralyzing."
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"Imperfect understanding is often more dangerous than ignorance."
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"Probability is not a mere computation of odds on the dice or more complicated variants; it is the acceptance of the lack of certainty in our knowledge and the development of methods for dealing with our ignorance."
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"Those of us forced to read the London papers sometimes speculate about which is greater: the average British hack's sloth, mendacity, ignorance, obsequiousness, capacity for drink, or aversion to paying for that drink. Smart money tends to split between the latter two."
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"Public Opinion... an attempt to organize the ignorance of the community, and to elevate it to the dignity of physical force."
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"I do not approve of anything which tampers with natural ignorance"
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"Where ignorance lurks, so too do the frontiers of discovery and imagination"
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