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Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How did it become so easy? ↗

— Allan Bloom

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We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop up to the surface, having no notion of the beautiful structures of which they were once a part. ↗

— Allan Bloom

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The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion. ↗

— Bodhidharma

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The more ignorant, reckless and thoughtless a doctor is, the higher his reputation soars even amongst powerful princes. ↗

— Desiderius Erasmus

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I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too. ↗

— Euripides

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We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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As well might it be said that, because we are ignorant of the laws by which metals are produced and trees developed, we cannot know anything of the origin of steamships and railways. ↗

— Alfred Russel Wallace

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Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

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Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago. ↗

— Bernard Berenson

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