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The reason there's so much ignorance is that those who have it are so eager to share it.

The cause of violence is not ignorance. It is self-interest. Only reverance can restrain violence - reverance for human life and the environment.

It is not enough to be well-intentioned; one must strive to put those intentions into action in a capable way. One must consider the effect his actions will have on others. Looked at like this, to persist in ignorance is itself dishonorable.

Ignorance is the mother of devotion.

Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.

Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other.

Ignorance is the primary source of all misery and vice.

Never let your persistence and passion turn into stubbornness and ignorance.

'God's plan' is often a front for men's plans and a cover for inadequacy, ignorance, and evil.

Ignorance is never out of style. It was in fashion yesterday, it is the rage today and it will set the pace tomorrow.

We Hoosiers hold to some quaint notions. Some might say we 'cling' to them, though not out of fear or ignorance. We believe in paying our bills. We have kept our state in the black throughout the recent unpleasantness, while cutting rather than raising taxes, by practicing an old tribal ritual - we spend less money than we take in.

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.

It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.

Ignorance is kind of bliss.

Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.

I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance.

He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.

The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.