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"I can never quite decide whether the anti-Columbus movement is merely risible or faintly sinister. It is sinister, though, because it is an ignorant celebration of stasis and backwardness, with an unpleasant tinge of self-hatred."
"An ignorant friend is worse than a learned foe."
"We are all very ignorant. What happens is that not all ignore the same things."
"I am ignorant and impotent and yet, somehow or other, here I am, unhappy, no doubt, profoundly dissatisfied ... In spite of everything I survive."
"The chief aim of wisdom is to enable one to bear with the stupidity of the ignorant."
"Communication is truth; communication is happiness. To share is our duty; to go down boldly and bring to light those hidden thoughts which are the most diseased; to conceal nothing; to pretend nothing; if we are ignorant to say so; if we love our friends to let them know it."
"No one is ignorant that our character and turn of mind are intimately connected with the water-closet."
"One must indeed be ignorant of the methods of genius to suppose that it allows itself to be cramped by forms. Forms are for mediocrity, and it is fortunate that mediocrity can act only according to routine. Ability takes its flight unhindered."
"Democracy disciplined and enlightened is the finest thing in the world. A democracy prejudiced, ignorant, superstitious, will land itself in chaos and may be self-destroyed."
"I feel a complete thirst for knowledge and an eager unrest to go further in it as well as satisfaction at every acquisition. There was a time when I believed that this alone could constitute the honor of mankind, and I had contempt for the ignorant rabble who know nothing."
"He realized...that the loudest are the least sincere, that arrogance is a quality of the ignorant, and that flatterers tend to be vicious."
"With 'swift-boating' now being used by the ignorant as a synonym for false charges, it's worth remembering that it was John Kerry who had to retract his statement about his secret Christmas mission to Cambodia, despite it having allegedly been 'seared, seared' into his memory."
"One can't judge till one's forty; before that we're too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant."
"A man who chooses not to read is just as ignorant as a man who cannot read."
"We are as ignorant of the meaning of the dragon as we are of the meaning of the universe."
"Satan, who is a wonderful contriver of delusions, is constantly laying snares to entrap ignorant and heedless people."
"Let no one ignorant of Mathematics enter here."
"It will not be held against you that you are ignorant against your will, but that you neglect to seek out what it is that makes you ignorant; not that you cannot bring together your wounded limbs, but that you reject Him that would heal them."
"Why is it that we remember with difficulty and without difficulty forget? Learn with difficulty and without difficulty remain ignorant?"
"It is not possible to be ignorant of the end of things if we know their beginning."
