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Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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The glorious uncertainty of the law was a thing well known and complained of, by all ignorant people, but all learned gentleman considered it as its greatest excellency. ↗

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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The difference between ignorant and educated people is that the latter know more facts. But that has nothing to do with whether they are stupid or intelligent. ↗

— Neal Stephenson

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Like blind hens, we are ignorant of our own self and the depths within us. ↗

— Johannes Tauler

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If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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Darwin theorized that mankind (both male and female) evolved alongside each other over millions of years, both reproducing after their own kind before the ability to physically have sex evolved. They did this through “asexuality” (“without sexual desire or activity or lacking any apparent sex or sex organs”). Each of them split in half: “Asexual organisms reproduce by fission (splitting in half). ↗

— Ray Comfort

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At first sign of crisis, the ignorant don’t panic because they don’t know what’s going on, and then later they panic precisely because they don’t know what’s going on.
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— Jarod Kintz

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To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant. ↗

— Amos Bronson Alcott

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I do not have a brain that I long for in dealing with matters of which I am ignorant, that don't come within my ken and a rationale, a reason, and argument and so on, and I can't do that and I'm not in that bracket at all. ↗

— Richard Attenborough

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Men who are scandalized at the lack of freedom in Russia do not ask themselves how real is liberty among the poor, the weak, and the ignorant in capitalist society. ↗

— Emily Greene Balch

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