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"Ignorance" - There is nothing more frightening than ignorance in action.- Goethe

Abraham Lincoln:

It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.


Albert Einstein:

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.


Amos Bronson Alcott:

To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
Blaise Pascal:


You always admire what you really don't understand.



Daniel J Boorstin:


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


Dorothy Thompson:

One cannot be disillusioned of what one never put faith in.


George Eliot:

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us worthy evidence of the fact.
Henry B. Adams:

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.



Henry David Thoreau:

A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance.


Herbert V. Prochnow:

A great many people mistake opinions for thoughts.

James Michener:

An age is called Dark, not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.



Martin Luther King, Jr.:

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.


Matthew 15:14:
If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.

Thomas Jefferson:

He is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.



Alfred North Whitehead

Not Ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance is the death of knowledge

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Great quotes! I agree. The pretension of knowledge is more dangerous than ignorance.
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