#ignorance

It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous. ↗

— Charles Dudley Warner

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There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life. ↗

— Mary Wortley

#happiness #hopes #ignorance #invaluable #life

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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Uncertainty and fear and ignorance about immigrants, about people who are different, has a history as old as our Nation. ↗

— Luis Gutierrez

#different #fear #history #ignorance #immigrants

Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#ignorance #prayer

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. ↗

— George Orwell

#ignorance #inspirational #war #freedom

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts. ↗

— Henry Adams

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Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#distinguishing #ignorance #kind #learning #studious

Ignorance is not innocence but sin. ↗

— Robert Browning

#innocence #sin