#ignorance

The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are all blindly adopted, the second willfully preferred. ↗

— George Bancroft

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Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished. ↗

— Jeremy Bentham

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Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible. ↗

— Isaiah Berlin

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The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge. ↗

— Daniel J. Boorstin

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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them. ↗

— Christian Nestell Bovee

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Is it ignorance or apathy? Hey, I don't know and I don't care. ↗

— Jimmy Buffett

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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. ↗

— John Calvin

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We are quite at ease in this no man's land of ignorance and doubt and dispute, absorbed in the ambiguities of trying to reach truth by mixing fact with invention. ↗

— Barry Unsworth

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I will not expose the ignorance of the faculty. ↗

— Nancy Cartwright

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