Ignorance

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"To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant." - A. B Alcott

"Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago." - Bernard Berenson, Notebook

"If you think education is expensive, try ignorance." - Derek Bok

"Gross ignorance : 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance." - Bennett Carf

"I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too." - Euripides

"A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance." - Anatole France

"I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." - Galileo

"Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness." - Bhagavad Gita

"If ignorance is bliss, there should be more happy people." - Graffiti

"The little I know I owe to my ignorance." - Sacha Guitry

"The multitude of books is making us ignorant." - Voltaire

"It iz better tew know nothingthan tew know what ain't so." - JOSH BILLINGS, Encyclopedia of Proverbial Philosophy

"Ignorance is not innocence but sin." - ROBERT BROWNING, The Inn Album

". . . where ignorance is bliss,
'Tis folly to be wise."
- THOMAS GRAY, Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College

"Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." - MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR., Strength to Love

"Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite." - KARL POPPER, lecture (1960)

"You know everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects." - WILL ROGERS, in New York Times

"Seen on the bathroom walls of Concordia University: 'Ignorance is bliss.' and right underneath it... 'I don't know what this means but I'm happy.'" - Unknown

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