#ignorance

He who stands for nothing will fall for anything. ↗

— Alexander Hamilton

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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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Ignorance: that blind faculty equally ready to believe and fear the same thing when augmented by knowledge. ↗

— Bauvard

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It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge. ↗

— Arnold H. Glasow

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Behind every argument is someone's ignorance. ↗

— Robert Benchley

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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

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Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water. ↗

— Anatole France

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I am not a great theologian. I know there is a theological concept called invincible ignorance in which a strong enough faith binds you to any facts to the contrary. ↗

— Barney Frank

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Admiration is the daughter of ignorance. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

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