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Amos Bronson Alcott Quote: 'To be ignorant of one's ignorance ...'

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


Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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I do sometimes accuse people of ignorance, but that is not intended to be an insult. I'm ignorant of lots of things. Ignorance is something that can be remedied by education.
Richard Dawkins
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I like to think I don't make music for ignorant people.


Tinie Tempah
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Violence is a tool of the ignorant.


Flip Wilson
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The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes.


Henry Ward Beecher
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The multitude of books is making us ignorant.


Voltaire
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The post-totalitarian malady has taken its most acute form in Romania. And it has taken place for very specific reasons. The repression here has been more cruel, more brutal, than in other states caught in the inferno of a 'socialist paradise.'
Octavian Paler
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It is only the ignorant who despise education.


Publilius Syrus
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I was raised to think that rock was music for ignorant people who didn't think for themselves.


Flea
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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Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.


Bertrand Russell
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Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.


Benjamin Franklin
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I grew up like a neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.


Harriet Tubman
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The younger Mary J. Blige, I would call her, she was very unaware, ignorant.


Mary J. Blige
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Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.


Jean de La Fontaine
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Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!


Iris Murdoch
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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 known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty.
Fisher Ames
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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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I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.


Euripides
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