"Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature."
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"What ignorance there is in human minds."
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"... there is no shame in not knowing. The problem arises when irrational thought and attendant behavior fill the vacuum left by ignorance."
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"If we bring not the good courage of minds covetous of truth, and truth only, prepared to hear all things, and decide upon all things, according to evidence, we should do more wisely to sit down contented in ignorance, than to bestir ourselves only to reap disappointment."
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"It is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in and settleth in it, that doth the hurt."
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"Nothing happens to any man which he is not formed by nature to bear. The same things happen to another, and either because he does not see that they have happened or because he would show a great spirit he is firm and remains unharmed. It is a shame then that ignorance and conceit should be stronger than wisdom."
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"In extraordinary events ignorance of their causes produces astonishment."
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"Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities."
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"It is a common sentence that Knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of Ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down. Knowledge, through patient and frugal centuries, enlarges discovery and makes record of it; Ignorance, wanting its day's dinner, lights a fire with the record, and gives a flavour to its one roast with the burnt souls of many generations."
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"Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be; whereas Ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long-wrought fabric of human good, and turn all the places of joy as dark as a buried Babylon."
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"Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug, but when it prescribes pills it may happen to do more harm."
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"Ignorance ... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it."
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"History is a record of the incessant struggle of humanity against ignorance and oppression."
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"There is a dangerous optimism of ignorance and indifference."
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"All men's instincts, all their impulses in life, are efforts to increase their freedom. Wealth and poverty, health and disease, culture and ignorance, labor and leisure, repletion and hunger, virtue and vice, are all terms for greater or less degree of freedom."
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"When ignorance does not know something, it says that what it does not know is stupid."
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"Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without."
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"How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time?"
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"The greatest and saddest defect is not credulity, but an habitual forgetfulness that our science is ignorance."
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"A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance."
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