Ignorance Quotations
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| To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of ignorance. | |||
| - Amos Bronson Alcott | |||
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| Dopeler effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly. | |||
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| If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy people? | |||
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| Ignoranus: A person who's both stupid and an asshole. | |||
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| Light travels faster than sound. That's why most people seem bright until you hear them speak. | |||
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| We have enough youth, how about a fountain of smart? | |||
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| A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance. | |||
| - Saul Bellow | |||
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| The trouble with people is not that they don't know but that they know so much that ain't so. | |||
| - Josh Billings | |||
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| Genuine ignorance is... profitable because it is likely to be accompanied by humility, curiosity, and open mindedness; whereas ability to repeat catch-phrases, cant terms, familiar propositions, gives the conceit of learning and coats the mind with varnish waterproof to new ideas. | |||
| - John Dewey | |||
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| Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. | |||
| - Albert Einstein | |||
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| A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance. | |||
| - Anatole France | |||
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| The most violent element in society is ignorance. | |||
| - Emma Goldman | |||
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| The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge. | |||
| - Aldous Huxley | |||
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| You can be sincere and still be stupid. | |||
| - Charles F. Kettering | |||
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| It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't. | |||
| - Mignon McLaughlin | |||
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| Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power. | |||
| - P.J. O'Rourke | |||
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| Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects. | |||
| - Will Rogers | |||
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| The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. | |||
| - Bertrand Russell | |||
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| The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right. | |||
| - Mark Twain | |||
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| Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge. | |||
| - Alfred North Whitehead | |||
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| Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe. | |||
| - Frank Zappa | |||