"The more we study the more we discover our ignorance."
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"The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about."
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"Condemnation without investigation is the height of ignorance"
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"If in the darkness of ignorance, you don’t recognize a person’s true nature, look to see whom he has chosen for his leader."
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"For I found myself embarrassed with so many doubts and errors that it seemed to me that the effort to instruct myself had no effect other than th eincreasing discovery of my own ignorance"
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"Beware: Ignorance Protects itself. Ignorance Promotes suspicion. Suspicion Engenders fear. Fear quails, Irrational and blind, Or fear looms, Defiant and closed. Blind, closed, Suspicious, afraid, Ignorance Protects itself, And protected, Ignorance grows."
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"Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he thinks that he knows something which he does not know, whereas I am quite conscious of my ignorance. At any rate it seems that I am wiser than he is to this small extent, that I do not think that I know what I do not know."
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"I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge."
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"Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly."
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"Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge."
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"Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds; enthusiasm of the free and buoyant. Education and free discussion are the antidotes of both."
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"There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action."
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"Few things are more irritating than when someone who is wrong is also very effective in making his point."
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"He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked."
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"The spiritual journey does not consist of arriving at a new destination where a person gains what he did not have, or becomes what he is not. It consists in the dissipation of one's own ignorance concerning oneself and life, and the gradual growth of that understanding which begins the spiritual awakening. The finding of God is a coming to one?s self."
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"Nothing is worse than active ignorance."
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"God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray."
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"It is not true that evil, destructiveness , and perversion inevitably form part of human existence, no matter how often this is maintained. But it is true that we are daily producing more evil and, with it, an ocean of suffering for millions that is absolutely avoidable. When one day the ignorance arising from childhood repression is eliminated and humanity has awakened, an end can be put to this production of evil."
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"All the wars, all the hatred, all the ignorance in the world come out of being so invested in our opinions."
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"The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance."
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