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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 position of modern science, as far as an ignorant man of letters can understand it, seems not a step in advance of that held by Huxley and Romanes in the last century. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

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While some of us may know than others about certain things, it is the thinnest slice of all that is, or could be known. In that sense, we are all profoundly ignorant. ↗

— Charles Osgood

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The trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

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The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant. ↗

— Maximilien Robespierre

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Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects. ↗

— Will Rogers

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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. ↗

— Galileo Galilei

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The great achievement of the Catholic Church lay in harmonizing, civilizing the deepest impulses of ordinary, ignorant people. ↗

— Kenneth Clark

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Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths. ↗

— Elizabeth I

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If you are ignorant, you certainly can get into some interesting arguments. ↗

— Herbert Prochnow

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