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Ignorance Quotes

"Ignorance is always afraid of change"
Jawaharlal Nehru
"Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by education"
Charlotte Bronte
"Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times"
Gustave Flaubert
"The problem with experts is that they do not know what they do not know"
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
"The difference between doctors and patients is that doctors are far less likely to know what they don’t know"
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
"Men act like brutes only when they do not understand what is true or good."
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
"The learned man knows that he is ignorant"
Victor Hugo
"Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil."
Plato
"Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it."
Agatha Christie
"One of the great challenges in life is knowing enough to think you’re right but not enough to know you’re wrong."
Neil deGrasse Tyson
"How it is we have so much information, but know so little?"
Noam Chomsky
"Anyone who tries to make love disappear from life without considering its causes is like someone who executes a judge without bothering first to find out what crime he was tried for."
Alain de Botton
"To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child"
Marcus Tullius Cicero
"The fundamental cause of trouble in the world today is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt"
Bertrand Russell
"If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn"
Ray Bradbury
"People are bloody ignorant apes."
Samuel Beckett
"A word to the wise ain't necessary it's the stupid ones who need the advice"
Bill Cosby
"Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head."
Michel de Montaigne
"In the abundance of water, a fool is thirsty"
Bob Marley
"Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life."
Fernando Pessoa
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