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Ignorance Quotes

"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored"
Aldous Huxley
"The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him."
Arthur Schopenhauer
"We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology."
Carl Sagan
"The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history."
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
"Ignorance is the parent of fear."
Herman Melville
"Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives."
James Madison
"Education is a system of imposed ignorance."
Noam Chomsky
"The problem is that the people with the most ridiculous ideas are always the people who are most certain of them"
Bill Maher
"Religion is dangerous because it allows human beings who don’t have all the answers to think that they do"
Bill Maher
"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge"
Charles Darwin
"Listening to uninformed people is worse than having no answers at all"
Ray Dalio
"The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none"
Thomas Carlyle
"Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish"
Euripides
"Confidence is what you have before you understand the problem."
Woody Allen
"People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their sili"
Bill Gates
"Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance."
Confucius
"Don’t waste your time with explanations, people only hear what they want to hear."
Paulo Coelho
"The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds."
John F. Kennedy
"We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything."
Jeff Bezos
"Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing"
Warren Buffett