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  The greatest obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents and the ocean was not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge.
 ~ignorance sayings by Daniel J. Boorstin, The Discoverers

  A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.
 ~inspirational sayings about Ignorance quotes by Bob Edwards

  Man never knows what he wants; he aspires to penetrate mysteries and as soon as he has, he wants to reestablish them. Ignorance irritates him and knowledge cloys.
 ~ignorance quotes by Amiel, Journal, 1884

  The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.
 ~famous quotes about Ignorance by Mark Twain

  It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
 ~ignorance sayings by Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966

  We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.
 ~ignorance sayings by Carl Sagan

  Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.
 ~inspirational sayings about Ignorance quotes by Tobias Smollett

  If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
 ~ignorance quotes by Attributed to both Andy McIntyre and Derek Bok

  Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
 ~famous quotes about Attitude by Martin Luther King, Jr.

  If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
 ~ignorance sayings by Isaac Asimov

  Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
 ~ignorance sayings by Will Durant

  The quintessential revolution is that of the spirit, born of an intellectual conviction of the need for change in those mental attitudes and values which shape the course of a nation's development. A revolution which aims merely at changing official policies and institutions with a view to an improvement in material conditions has little chance of genuine success. Without a revolution in spirit, the forces which had produced inequities of the old order would continue to be operative, posing a constant threat to the process of reform and regeneration. It is not enough merely to call for freedom, democracy and human rights. There has to be a united determination to persevere in the struggle, to make sacrifices in the name of enduring truths, to resist the corrupting influences of desire, ill will, ignorance, and fear.
 ~inspirational sayings about Society quotes by Aung San Suu Kyi

  Dopeler effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.
 ~ignorance quotes by Author unknown, supposedly from a Washington Post reader submission word contest in which readers we

  If you think education is expensive, try ignorance!
 ~famous quotes about Graduation by Andy McIntyre

  Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.
 ~ignorance sayings by Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

   We are free, truly free, when we don't need to rent our arms to anybody in order to be able to lift a piece of bread to our mouths
 ~ignorance sayings by Ricardo Flores Magon, speech, 31 May 1914

   Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.
 ~good sayings about Hope by Robert G. Ingersoll

   I don't cry over spilt milk, but a fallen scoop of ice cream is enough to ruin my whole day.
 ~ignorance quotes by Terri Guillemets

   Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
 ~motivational quotes about Gossip sayings by Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack, July 1735

   The Bible may be the truth but it's not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
 ~ignorance sayings by Samuel Butler

   Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.
 ~ignorance sayings by Daniel J. Boorstin, Democracy and Its Discontents

   Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.
 ~good sayings about Age by Robert Browning

   Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
 ~ignorance quotes by George Bernard Shaw

   Economic advance is not the same thing as human progress.
 ~motivational quotes about Prosperity sayings by John Clapham, A Concise Economic History of Britain, 1957

   Snowmen fall from heaven... unassembled.
 ~ignorance sayings by Author Unknown

   Bypasses are devices that allow some people to dash from point A to point B very fast while other people dash from point B to point A very fast. People living at point C, being a point directly in between, are often given to wonder what's so great about point A that so many people from point B are so keen to get there and what's so great about point B that so many people from point A are so keen to get there. They often wish that people would just once and for all work out where the hell they wanted to be.
 ~ignorance sayings by Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

   A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
 ~good sayings about Mothers by Victor Hugo

   Actually, the only time I ever took out a one-iron was to kill a tarantula. And it took a seven to do that.
 ~ignorance quotes by Jim Murray

   Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
 ~motivational quotes about Perfection sayings by Salvador Dali

   The great omission in American life is solitude; not loneliness, for this is an alienation that thrives most in the midst of crowds, but that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incubator of the spirit.
 ~ignorance sayings by Marya Mannes

   It is difficult to live without opium after having known it because it is difficult, after knowing opium, to take earth seriously. And unless one is a saint, it is difficult to live without taking earth seriously.
 ~ignorance sayings by Jean Cocteau

   America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still.
 ~good sayings about America by e.e. cummings

   New York has a trip-hammer vitality which drives you insane with restlessness if you have no inner stabilizer.
 ~ignorance quotes by Henry Miller

   If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless, since their chief purpose is to make us bear with patience the injustice of our fellows.
 ~motivational quotes about Integrity sayings by Jean Baptiste Molière, Le Misanthrope

   A smile appeared upon her face as if she'd taken it directly from her handbag and pinned it there.
 ~ignorance sayings by Loma Chandler

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