#oran

It is in his knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness, the high superiority which he holds over the other animals who inhabit the earth with him, and consequently no ignorance is probably without loss to him, no error without evil. ↗

— James Smithson

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But what sin is to the moralist and crime to the jurist so to the scientific man is ignorance. ↗

— Frederick Soddy

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Scientific men can hardly escape the charge of ignorance with regard to the precise effect of the impact of modern science upon the mode of living of the people and upon their civilisation. ↗

— Frederick Soddy

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The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away. ↗

— Sophocles

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

— Thomas Sowell

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I try to be as ignorant about things as I can. ↗

— Hal Sparks

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A jury is a group of twelve people of average ignorance. ↗

— Herbert Spencer

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Of all the wastes of human ignorance perhaps the most extravagant and costly to human growth has been the waste of the distinctive powers of womanhood after the child-bearing age. ↗

— Anna Garlin Spencer

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Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance. ↗

— Herbert Spencer

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