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Quotations by Subject: Ignorance
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Ignorance is not innocence but sin.: Robert Browning (1812 - 1889)
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.: Saadi (1184 - 1291)
It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.: Saint Jerome (374 AD - 419 AD)
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.: Saul Bellow (1915 - 2005)
The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.: Sir William Osler (1849 - 1919)
The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.: Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)
Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.: Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC)
Theories that diseases are caused by mental states and can be cured by will power, are always an index of how much is not understood about the physical terrain of a disease.: Susan Sontag (1933 - 2004), Illness as Metaphor, 1978
Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.: Sydney Smith (1771 - 1845)
That there should one Man die ignorant who had capacity for Knowledge, this I call a tragedy.: Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)
The multitude of books is making us ignorant.: Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.: Will Durant (1885 - 1981)
An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
You know everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935), New York Times Aug. 31 1924
Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with Ignorance.: William Blake (1757 - 1827)
It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.: William G. McAdoo (1863 - 1941)

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