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Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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The voice of the intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is biased by hate and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance. ↗

— Karl A. Menninger

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Consciousness of myself, combined with complete ignorance of everything that does not fall within my sphere of thinking, is the most telling proof of my substantiality outside God, of my original existence. ↗

— Moses Mendelssohn

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In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance. ↗

— Henry Miller

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It is in his knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness, the high superiority which he holds over the other animals who inhabit the earth with him, and consequently no ignorance is probably without loss to him, no error without evil. ↗

— James Smithson

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But what sin is to the moralist and crime to the jurist so to the scientific man is ignorance. ↗

— Frederick Soddy

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Scientific men can hardly escape the charge of ignorance with regard to the precise effect of the impact of modern science upon the mode of living of the people and upon their civilisation. ↗

— Frederick Soddy

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The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance. ↗

— Herbert Spencer

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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance. ↗

— Socrates

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