"The darkest night is ignorance."
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"Female gossips are generally actuated by active ignorance."
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"We are all of us imaginative in some form or other, for images are the brood of desire."
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"It must certainly be more dangerous to live in ignorance than to live with knowledge."
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"Laugh not too much; the witty man laughs least: For wit is news only to ignorance. Lesse at thine own things laugh; lest in the jest Thy person share, and the conceit advance."
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"How marvelous books are, crossing worlds and centuries, defeating ignorance and, finally, cruel time itself."
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"I see, these books are probably law books, and it is an essential part of the justice dispensed here that you should be condemned not only in innocence but also in ignorance."
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"From exertion come wisdom and purity; from sloth ignorance and sensuality."
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"The greatest of all the accomplishments of 20th century science has been the discovery of human ignorance"
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"His ignorance covers the world like a blanket, and there's scarcely a hole in it anywhere."
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"Cultural speciation had been crippling to human moral and spiritual growth. It had hindered freedom of thought, limited our thinking, imprisoned us in the cultures into which we had been born. . . . These cultural mind prisons. . . . Cultural speciation was clearly a barrier to world peace. So long as we continued to attach more importance to our own narrow group membership than to the ‘global village’ we would propagate prejudice and ignorance."
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"Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiation - creation - there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans."
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"Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon but to the fact that our ignorance and our complacency are coming to an end."
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"If you are kept in ignorance of the true way and permit yourself to rely upon and be guided by the opinion of imperfect man, you can never gain the riches that will bring you peace and lasting happiness."
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"There are, in effect, two things, to know and to believe one knows; to know is science; to believe one knows is ignorance."
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"It is better to confess ignorance than provide it."
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"The complicated futility of ignorance."
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"The film and media technology that's available today is going to be the most potent weapon in our arsenal in tackling ideological intolerance and ignorance, as well as the kind of fear and stereotyping that can dehumanize the others as the enemy, as being somehow less entitled to the privileges and the aspirations that we have."
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"All ignorance toboggans into know and trudges up to ignorance again."
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"The union of nature and soul removes the veil of ignorance that covers our intelligence."
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