#ignorance

The more we study the more we discover our ignorance. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

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I do believe states' rights was a sound doctrine that got hijacked by some unsavory customers for a while - like, 150 years or so. I'm professionally obliged to believe that knowledge is better than ignorance, but some kinds of forgetting are OK with me. ↗

— John Shelton Reed

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In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance. ↗

— Theodore Dreiser

#must #order #wisdom

People's ignorance really pisses me off. Stupidity is when you can't help it-ignorance is when you choose not to understand something. ↗

— Sarah McLachlan

#help #ignorance #me #off #people

I perceive two things in Scotland of the most fearful omen: ignorance of theological truth, and a readiness to pride themselves in and boast of it. ↗

— Edward Irving

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I believe that ignorance is the root of all evil. And that no one knows the truth. ↗

— Molly Ivins

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The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

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It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder. ↗

— Joseph Wood Krutch

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To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance. ↗

— John Ruskin

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Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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