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Your ignorance cramps my conversation.
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— Anthony Hope

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
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— Robert J. Hanlon

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

Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
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— Herbert Spencer

It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
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— Saint Jerome

Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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— Michael de Montaigne

Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance.
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— William Gaddis

The only thing more expensive than education is ignorance.
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— Benjamin Franklin

Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon and star.
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— Confucius

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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— Will Durant

Ignorance is not bliss; ignorance is impotence; it is fear; it is cruelty; it is all the things that make for unhappiness.
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— Ingrid Holtby

Ignorance is not bliss – it is oblivion.
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— Philip Wylie

Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
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— Hazlitt

The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
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— Aldous Huxley

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.
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— Marcus Tullius Cicero

There is no slavery but ignorance.
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— Robert Green Ingersoll

Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.
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— Plato

The trouble ain’t that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain’t distributed right.
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— Mark Twain

You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and still come out completely dry. Most people do.
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— Norman Juster

The fire that warms us can also consume us; it is not the fault of the fire.
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— Swami Vivekananda

Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.
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— Tobias Smollett

It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.
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— William G. McAdoo

To be ignorant of one’s ignorance is the malady of ignorance.
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— Amos Bronson

Before we work on artificial intelligence why don’t we do something about natural stupidity?
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— Steve Polyak

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance.
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— Saul Bellow

A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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— Anatole France

The living man who does not learn, is dark, dark, like one walking in the night.
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— Ming Lum Paou Keen

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
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— Derek Bok

Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.
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— George Eliot

Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.
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— Sydney Smith

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