"An ignorant person is inclined to blame others for his own misfortune. To blame oneself is proof of progress. But the wise man never has to blame another or himself."
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"The Supreme Court and the Court of Appeal will take care of themselves. Look after the courts of the poor, who stand most in need of justice. The security of the republic will be found in the treatment of the poor and the ignorant. In indifference to their misery and helplessness lies disaster."
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"Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish."
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"The most knowledgeable person in one domain may be the most ignorant in another."
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"Better be mute, than dispute with the Ignorant."
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"All men are ignorant, just on different subjects."
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"When you are ignorant about something, to know that you are ignorant about it - that is knowledge."
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"Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant"
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"I know that the blacks, take them half enlightened and ignorant, are more humane and merciful than the most enlightened and refined European that can be found in all the earth."
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"Human consciousness arose but a minute before midnight on the geological clock. Yet we mayflies try to bend an ancient world to our purposes, ignorant perhaps of the messages buried in its long history. Let us hope that we are still in the early morning of our April day."
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"We have copped a lot of ignorant abuse in the past, but it makes you wonder when a former state coroner openly attacks Aboriginal families who have been through hell."
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"It is the mind that makes one wise or ignorant, bound or emancipated."
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"No educated man can afford to be ignorant of the Bible."
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"Be not under the dominion of thine own will; it is the vice of the ignorant, who vainly presume on their own understanding."
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"God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so."
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"No one knows what he himself is made of, except his own spirit within him, yet there is still some part of him which remains hidden even from his own spirit; but you, Lord, know everything about a human being because you have made him...Let me, then, confess what I know about myself, and confess too what I do not know, because what I know of myself I know only because you shed light on me, and what I do not know I shall remain ignorant about until my darkness becomes like bright noon before your face."
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"But certainly the laser proved to be what I realized it was going to be. At that moment in my life I was too ignorant in business law to be able to do it right, and if I did it over again probably the same damn thing would happen."
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"I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have so much of it."
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"Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness."
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"If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer, "He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone."
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