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  The greatest obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents and the ocean was not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge.
 ~ignorance sayings by Daniel J. Boorstin, The Discoverers

  A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.
 ~inspirational sayings about Ignorance quotes by Bob Edwards

  Man never knows what he wants; he aspires to penetrate mysteries and as soon as he has, he wants to reestablish them. Ignorance irritates him and knowledge cloys.
 ~ignorance quotes by Amiel, Journal, 1884

  The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.
 ~famous quotes about Ignorance by Mark Twain

  It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
 ~ignorance sayings by Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966

  We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.
 ~ignorance sayings by Carl Sagan

  Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.
 ~inspirational sayings about Ignorance quotes by Tobias Smollett

  If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
 ~ignorance quotes by Attributed to both Andy McIntyre and Derek Bok

  Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
 ~famous quotes about Attitude by Martin Luther King, Jr.

  If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
 ~ignorance sayings by Isaac Asimov

  Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
 ~ignorance sayings by Will Durant

  The quintessential revolution is that of the spirit, born of an intellectual conviction of the need for change in those mental attitudes and values which shape the course of a nation's development. A revolution which aims merely at changing official policies and institutions with a view to an improvement in material conditions has little chance of genuine success. Without a revolution in spirit, the forces which had produced inequities of the old order would continue to be operative, posing a constant threat to the process of reform and regeneration. It is not enough merely to call for freedom, democracy and human rights. There has to be a united determination to persevere in the struggle, to make sacrifices in the name of enduring truths, to resist the corrupting influences of desire, ill will, ignorance, and fear.
 ~inspirational sayings about Society quotes by Aung San Suu Kyi

  Dopeler effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.
 ~ignorance quotes by Author unknown, supposedly from a Washington Post reader submission word contest in which readers we

  If you think education is expensive, try ignorance!
 ~famous quotes about Graduation by Andy McIntyre

  Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.
 ~ignorance sayings by Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

   We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
 ~ignorance sayings by Anaïs Nin

   It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
 ~good sayings about Education by Aristotle

   People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like.
 ~ignorance quotes by Abraham Lincoln

   The beginning of all wisdom is to look fixedly on clothes, or even with armed eyesight, till they become transparent.
 ~motivational quotes about Hawww sayings by Thomas Carlyle

   Most failures are caused by not realizing the power of momentum – getting started.
 ~ignorance sayings by

   Life in Lubbock, Texas, taught me two things: One is that God loves you and you're going to burn in hell. The other is that sex is the most awful, filthy thing on earth and you should save it for someone you love.
 ~ignorance sayings by Butch Hancock

   Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
 ~good sayings about Autumn by Albert Camus

   Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
 ~ignorance quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

   There's nothing to match curling up with a good book when there's a repair job to be done around the house.
 ~motivational quotes about Housework sayings by Joe Ryan

   If you screw things up in tennis, it's 15-love. If you screw up in boxing, it's your ass.
 ~ignorance sayings by Randall Tex Cobb

   When our vices desert us, we flatter ourselves that we are deserting our vices.
 ~ignorance sayings by Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld

   Before you consult your wants, consult your purse.
 ~good sayings about Financial by

   Excuse me, then! you know my heart;But dearest friends, alas! must part.
 ~ignorance quotes by John Gay

   When a man talks dirty to a woman, it's sexual harassment. When a woman talks dirty to a man, it's $3.95 a minute.
 ~motivational quotes about Sex sayings by Author Unknown

   My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
 ~ignorance sayings by Adlai Stevenson, speech, Detroit, 1952

   We learn and grow most when we face the most extremes of weather, obstacles, religions, races, political parties, and points of view.
 ~ignorance sayings by

   On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence
 ~good sayings about Thanksgiving Day by William Jennings Bryan

   What we have are good gray ballplayers, playing a good gray game and reading the good gray Wall Street Journal. They have been brainwashed, dry-cleaned and dehydrated!... Wake up the echoes at the Hall of Fame and you will find that baseball's immortals were a rowdy and raucous group of men who would climb down off their plaques and go rampaging through Cooperstown, taking spoils.... Deplore it if you will, but Grover Cleveland Alexander drunk was a better pitcher than Grover Cleveland Alexander sober.
 ~ignorance quotes by Bill Veeck, The Hustler's Handbook

   Hockey is murder on ice.
 ~motivational quotes about Hockey sayings by Jim Murray

   Sweet childish days, that were as long,As twenty days are now.
 ~ignorance sayings by William Wordsworth, To a Butterfly

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