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We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.
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John Archibald Wheeler
American physicist

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All the perplexities, confusions, and distresses in America arise, not from defects in their constitution or confederation, not from a want of honor or virtue, so much as from downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit, and circulation.
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John Adams
president of the United States from 1797 to 1801

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There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749–1832)

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Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.
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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749–1832)

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It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it not.
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Jeremy Taylor
English clergyman



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Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.
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Jeremy Bentham
British philosopher, jurist, and social reformer

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Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.
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Jean de La Fontaine
French poet, fabulist and writer (1621-1695)

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Ignorance is always afraid of change.
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Jawaharlal Nehru
Prime Minister of India from 1947 to 1964

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Here's what the right-wing has in, there's no shortage of the natural resources of ignorance, apathy, hate, fear. As long as those things are in the collective conscious and unconscious, the Republicans will have some votes.
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Janeane Garofalo
American stand-up comedienne

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Never ascribe to malice that which can be adequately explained by ignorance.
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James Thurber
American cartoonist, author, journalist, playwright (1894–1961)

           

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