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“He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice.”
Albert Einstein
“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and consciencious stupidity.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
“Your greatness is measured by your kindness; your education and intellect by your modesty; your ignorance is betrayed by your suspicions and prejudices, and your real caliber is measured by the consideration and tolerance you have for others.”
William J. H. Boetcker
“The older we grow the greater becomes our wonder at how much ignorance one can contain without bursting one's clothes”
Mark Twain
“When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”
“Fear always springs from ignorance”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.”
“If you think education is expensive, try ignorance”
Derek Bok
“True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.”
Henry David Thoreau
“There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe