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
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It is easier to speak to those who have had similar experiences than to those who are as yet ignorant.
Richard Jefferies
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People don't know. People are ignorant. They feel that if you stutter, then you're slow or whatnot.
Kenyon Martin
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You can either be informed and your own rulers, or you can be ignorant and have someone else, who is not ignorant, rule over you.
Julian Assange
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If you are ignorant, you certainly can get into some interesting arguments.
Herbert V. Prochnow
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Personally, I think wearing a baby chinchilla says, 'I'm ignorant.'
Eva Mendes
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The ignorant man always adores what he cannot understand.
Cesare Lombroso
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Why does the world dislike Russia? I do not think that we are unloved or considered to be ignorant.
Vladimir Putin
WorldThinkWhyIgnorantDislike
I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.
George Eliot
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A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.
Benjamin Franklin
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Further, there are things of which the mind understands one part, but remains ignorant of the other; and when man is able to comprehend certain things, it does not follow that he must be able to comprehend everything.
Maimonides
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Christ didn't choose the rich to preach the doctrine; he choose 12 poor ignorant workers - that is, he chose the proletariat of the times.
Fidel Castro
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Many filmmakers portray teenagers as immoral and ignorant, with pursuits that are pretty base... But I haven't found that to be the case. I listen to kids. I respect them... Some of them are as bright as any of the adults I've met.
John Hughes
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To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
Amos Bronson Alcott
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The more dependent you are, the more ignorant you must be, and that's how they want you.
Rush Limbaugh
YouWantIgnorantMoreMustHow
Whoever claims to understand another person completely, is either entirely ignorant of himself, or else has a nature so small that he can measure it easily, and supposes it to be the standard of every other nature.
Lucy Larcom
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When I turned 30, I realized how ignorant I really was. I always thought I had a very accomplished life.
Diane Kruger
LifeThoughtIgnorantAlwaysHow
I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.
Clarence Darrow
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The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.
Plato
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Luck is merely an illusion, trusted by the ignorant and chased by the foolish.
Timothy Zahn
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I do not have a brain that I long for in dealing with matters of which I am ignorant - that don't come within my ken and a rationale, a reason, an argument and so on - and I can't do that, and I'm not in that bracket at all.
Richard Attenborough
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The most solid piece of scientific truth I know of is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature.
Lewis Thomas
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It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising their sovereignty.
James Monroe
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