#ignorance

Mystery is but another name for ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain! ↗

— Tryon Edwards

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The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen of a sister author; and to her treatment of the subject I will only add, in justice to men, that though to the larger and more trifling part of the sex, imbecility in females is a great enhancement of their personal charms, there is a portion of them too reasonable and too well informed themselves to desire anything more in woman than ignorance. ↗

— Jane Austen

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Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value. ↗

— Jean de La Fontaine

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The realization of ignorance is the first act of knowing. ↗

— Jean Toomer

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And capital punishment, however ineffective it may be and through whatever ignorance it may be resorted to, is a strictly defensive act, - at least in theory. ↗

— Benjamin Tucker

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Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance. ↗

— Graham Greene

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Prejudice is the child of ignorance. ↗

— William Hazlitt

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There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the later ignorance. ↗

— Hippocrates

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Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

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