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I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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I believe that the American administration of Iraq has been arrogant, has pursued policies that are illegal in international law and has been ignorant and incompetent. I said this very forthrightly to the senators. ↗

— Juan Cole

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A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

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It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising their sovereignty. ↗

— James Monroe

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Should such an ignorant people lead the world? How did it come to this in the first place? 82 percent of us don't even have a passport! Just a handful can speak a language other than English. ↗

— Michael Moore

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We must make up our minds to be ignorant of much, if we would know anything. ↗

— John Henry Newman

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The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant. ↗

— Plato

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Ignorant free speech often works against the speaker. That is one of several reasons why it must be given rein instead of suppressed. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

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This is our mercury, our lunary, but whosoever thinks of any other water besides this, is ignorant and foolish, never attaining to the desired effects. ↗

— George Ripley

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