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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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Ignorance is never better than knowledge.


Enrico Fermi
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The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.


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


George Bernard Shaw
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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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There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the later ignorance.


Hippocrates
Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens.
William Beveridge
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In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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
Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.
Bertrand Russell
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Aversion toward the blind exists for the same reason that most prejudices exist: lack of knowledge. Ignorance is a powerful generator of fear. And fear slides easily into aggression and contempt.
Rosemary Mahoney
If you take a look at history, you will find that the understanding of what is good and evil has always existed before the individual religions. The religions were only invented by people afterwards, in order to express this idea.
Salman Rushdie
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Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.


Jeremy Bentham
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Things can change only through strong personalities. I am not very good at supporting ignorance and mediocrity, so maybe this leads to arrogant gestures and arrogant responses. So, nobody's perfect.
Edi Rama
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