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It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

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To attempt to superimpose its views through the exercise of force, is seldom the part of intelligence; it is frequently the part of ignorance. ↗

— Paul Harris

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It ain't ignorance that causes all the trouble in this world. It's the things people know that ain't so. ↗

— Edwin Armstrong

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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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Fullness of knowledge always means some understanding of the depths of our ignorance; and that is always conducive to humility and reverence. ↗

— Robert Millikan

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They live by an irrational morality. The rational man doesn't hate it when he is proven wrong; he is actually grateful, since his knowledge has been enriched. The people who follow an irrational morality can only maintain their irrational value system by ignoring reality. When you point this out to them they get very, very defensive, because your logic threatens to destroy their distorted system of ethics. Reason becomes their enemy, and they hate it with a passion." -Unknown ↗

— Unknown

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No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance. ↗

— Atwood H. Townsend

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Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education. ↗

— Stephen R. Covey

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The hope that poverty and ignorance may gradually be extinguished, derives indeed much support from the steady progress of the working classes during the nineteenth century. ↗

— Alfred Marshall

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