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“There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Education is the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.”
Mark Twain
“Public Opinion... an attempt to organize the ignorance of the community, and to elevate it to the dignity of physical force.”
Oscar Wilde
“If you think education is expensive, try ignorance”
Derek Bok
“If you think knowledge is dangerous, try ignorance”
Contributed by: Frederic Aknin
“A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance.”
Gian Carlo Menotti
“Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind”
John Tillotson
“The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there it is.”
Winston Churchill
“Ignorance is not bliss; ignorance is impotence; it is fear; it is cruelty; it is all the things that make for unhappiness”
Ingrid Holtby
“He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked”
Voltaire