Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.
Laurence J. Peter
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The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.
Winston Churchill
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It is hardly fair to accuse us of ignorance when it was made a crime under the former order of things to learn enough about letters to even read the Word of God.
George H. White
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The cause of violence is not ignorance. It is self-interest. Only reverance can restrain violence - reverance for human life and the environment.
William Sloane Coffin
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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
George Eliot
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Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance.
William Gaddis
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Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible.
Isaiah Berlin
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Ignorance is not bliss - it is oblivion.
Philip Wylie
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If not bliss, ignorance can at least be fun.
Carter Burwell
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The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.
Addison Mizner
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Ignorance makes you very bold.
Sergio Ramos
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Fear is the only true enemy, born of ignorance and the parent of anger and hate.
Edward Albert
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Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.
Thomas Gray
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And capital punishment, however ineffective it may be and through whatever ignorance it may be resorted to, is a strictly defensive act, - at least in theory.
Benjamin Tucker
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The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly.
Richard Bach
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
Warren Weaver
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The right to a quality education is, I believe, the perfect path to bridge the gap between different cultures and to reconcile various civilizations. Without such a right, the values of liberty, justice and equality will have no meaning. Ignorance is by far the biggest danger and threat to humankind.
Moza bint Nasser
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Young people have a right to optimism, and rightly so; human beings have grown and developed and accomplished wonderful feats in the world. But what mires me in pessimism is the fact that so much of life is pain and sorrow and willful ignorance and violence, and pushing back against that tide takes so much effort, so much steady fight. It's tiring.
Jesmyn Ward
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Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
W. Clement Stone
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There is a profound hypocrisy - and deep historical ignorance - when Europeans complain about the problems posed by the ethnic and religious minorities in their midst, for that is exactly what European colonial rule meant for peoples around the world.
Martin Jacques
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Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.
Jeremy Bentham
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The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.
Samuel Butler
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Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.
Lytton Strachey
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