"To learn anything, you must put aside the safety of your ignorance."
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"All decisions are made on insufficient evidence."
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"And I have written three books on the soul, Proving absurd all written hitherto, And putting us to ignorance again."
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"The question is asked in ignorance, by one who does not even know what can have led him to ask it."
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"To be free from ignorance you need knowledge. The mind should turn inward. Silence takes the mind inward and helps you to recognize who you are."
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"Do not try to entrap others with your haughty knowledge. To your wide surprise, they will entrap you with their lengthy ignorance."
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"I took a closer look. There is no such thing as ignorance. Ignorance is nothing But my limited knowledge. I took a closer look. There is no such thing as defeat. Defeat is nothing But the inspirer Of my increasing will. I took a closer look. There is no such thing as death. Death is nothing But my strengthening And Dreaming rest."
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"Hostile armies may face each other for years, striving for the victory which is decided in a single day. This being so, to remain in ignorance of the enemy's condition simply because one grudges the outlay of a hundred ounces of silver in honors and emoluments, is the height of inhumanity."
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"He must be able to mystify his officers and men by false reports and appearances, and thus keep them in total ignorance."
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"I want to fight poverty and ignorance and give opportunity to those people who are locked out."
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"Ignorance is God's prison. Knowing is God's palace"
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"A political system seeking to function amongst ignorant, illiterate and barbaric people could have marvelous principles but could only succeed in being ignorant, illiterate and barbaric unless one addressed the people one by one and cured the ignorance, illiteracy and barbarism of each citizen."
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"Passionate people invariably deny their anger, and cowards often boast their ignorance of fear."
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"Much that we hug today as knowledge is ignorance pure and simple. It makes the mind wander and even reduces it to a vacuity."
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"To realize that our knowledge is ignorance, This is a noble insight. To regard our ignorance as knowledge, This is mental sickness. Only when we are sick of the sickness Shall we cease to be sick. The Sage is not sick, being sick of sickness; This is the secret of health."
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"Knowing ignorance is strength; ignoring knowledge is sickness."
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"It has been more profitable for us to bind together in the wrong direction than to be alone in the right one."
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"When you have your own bus, then you have dignity. When you have your own school, you have dignity. When you have your own country, you have dignity.When you have something of your own, you have dignity. But whenever you are begging for a chance to participate in that which belongs to someone else, or use that which belongs to someone else, on an equal basis with the owner, that's not dignity. That's ignorance."
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"And this is the way a novel gets written, in ignorance, fear, sorrow, madness, and a kind of psychotic happiness as an incubator for the wonders being born."
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"It is chiefly, I regret to say, through journalism that such people find expression. I regret it because there is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community."
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