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Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.

His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.

In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance.

I really think that living is the process of going from complete certainty to complete ignorance.

Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.

The average man has a carefully cultivated ignorance about household matters - from what to do with the crumbs to the grocer's telephone number - a sort of cheerful inefficiency which protects him.

His ignorance is encyclopedic.

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.

Mystery is but another name for ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain!

The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.

Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human.

Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.

Without feeling abashed by my ignorance, I confess that I am absolutely unable to say. In the absence of an appearance of learning, my answer has at least one merit, that of perfect sincerity.

Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn't get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.