"Young people are the same as they always were. They are just as ignorant."
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"To the ignorant, even the words of wise seem foolishness."
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"Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain."
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"It forms a strong presumption against all supernatural and miraculous relations, that they are observed chiefly to abound among ignorant and barbarous nations; or if a civilized people has ever given admission to any of them, that people will be found to have received them from ignorant and barbarous ancestors."
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"Violence is a tool of the ignorant."
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"Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action."
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"Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge."
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"Oh blind! Oh ignorant, self-seeking cupidity which spurs us so in the short mortal life and steeps us so through all eternity!"
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"It is only the young and callow and ignorant that admire rashness. Think before you speak. Know your subject."
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"Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate."
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"Man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assured."
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"When you are ignorant of the enemy but know yourself, your chances of winning or losing are equal."
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"If the English educated neglect, as they have done and even now continue, as some do, to be ignorant of their mother tongue, linguistic starvation will abide."
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"All who contribute to the overthrow of religion, or to the ruin of kingdoms and commonwealths, all who are foes to letters and to the arts which confer honour and benefit on the human race (among whom I reckon the impious, the cruel, the ignorant, the indolent, the base and the worthless), are held in infamy and detestation."
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"Friendship with the ignorant is as foolish as arguing with a drunkard."
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"We live in a world which is full of misery and ignorance, and the plain duty of each and all of us is to try to make the little corner he can influence somewhat less miserable and somewhat less ignorant than it was before he entered."
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"Blame nobody else, do not commit the mistake of the ignorant."
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"Have faith in man, whether he appears to you to be a very learned one or a most ignorant one"
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"I have no companion but Love, no beginning, no end, no dawn. The Soul calls from within me: 'You, ignorant of the way of Love, set Me free.'"
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"Recognizing how totally ignorant you are is the only honest way to deal with people who've been through something traumatic."
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