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Enrico Fermi Quote: 'Ignorance is never better than knowledge. ...'

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Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.


George Bernard Shaw
Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.
Isaac Asimov
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Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.


Henry David Thoreau
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In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance.


Herodotus
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The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.


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


George Eliot
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In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.


Henry Miller
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The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.


Daniel J. Boorstin
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If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.


Isaac Asimov
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Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.


William Shakespeare
The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
Elbert Hubbard
We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.
John Archibald Wheeler
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Which form of proverb do you prefer Better late than never, or Better never than late?


Lewis Carroll
Tags: You Than Never
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There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the later ignorance.


Hippocrates
If they exert it not for good, they will for evil; if they advance not knowledge, they will perpetuate ignorance.
Frances Wright
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You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.


Golda Meir
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I never faced a pitcher with better stuff than Nolan Ryan.


Robin Yount
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It is better to have loafed and lost, than never to have loafed at all.


James Thurber
Tags: Than Never Better
I don't know what is better than the work that is given to the actor-to teach the human heart the knowledge of itself.
Laurence Olivier