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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.

My family and I held no hatred for those people because we realized they were victims of their own ignorance.

Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.

By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

I really wish there was some big brother conspiracy theory. I just think it's the ignorance of trying to make a dollar. That's what the networks have done and will continue to do. If anyone doesn't think that this is about making money, then they're crazy.

I consider nothing low but ignorance, vice, and meanness, characteristics generally found where the animal propensities predominate over the higher sentiments.

Ignorance breeds fear.

Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts; for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance.

There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life.

We receive the truths of science by compulsion. Nothing but ignorance is able to resist them.

If they exert it not for good, they will for evil; if they advance not knowledge, they will perpetuate ignorance.

If we bring not the good courage of minds covetous of truth, and truth only, prepared to hear all things, and decide upon all things, according to evidence, we should do more wisely to sit down contented in ignorance, than to bestir ourselves only to reap disappointment.

Ignorance is not bliss - it is oblivion.