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Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully ignorant. – John Simon	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Human consciousness arose but a minute before midnight on the geological clock. Yet we mayflies try to bend an ancient world to our purposes, ignorant perhaps of the messages buried in its long history. Let us hope that we are still in the early morning of our April day. – Stephen Jay Gould	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend; A wise enemy is worth more. – Jean De la Fontaine	added by anonymous 13 years ago
I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment, to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all agnosticism means. – Clarence Darrow, Scopes Trial, 1925	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are perhaps always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding or to exercise his invention in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become. – Adam Smith	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Those who are skilled in combat do not become angered, those who are skilled at winning do not become afraid. Thus the wise win before they fight, while the ignorant fight to win. – Kongming (Zhuge Liang)	added by anonymous 13 years ago
When I was fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. When I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years. – Mark Twain	added by anonymous 13 years ago
I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of. – Clarence Darrow	added by anonymous 13 years ago
I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity. – Cicero	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt. – Graham Greene, The Human Factor (1978)	added by anonymous 13 years ago
It is certain that either wise bearing or ignorant carriage is caught, as men take diseases, one from another; therefore, let all take heed as to the society in which they mingle, for in a little while they will be like it. – Rule of Life	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything. – Sydney Smith	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant. – Saadi	added by anonymous 14 years ago
There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant. – Ralph Waldo Emerson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Only the extremely ignorant or the extremely intelligent can resist change. – Socrates	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away. – Sophocles	added by anonymous 14 years ago
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years. – Mark Twain	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom. – Kahlil Gibran	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Oh, heart, I the ignorant say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower perishes, but the seeds remain. This is the law of God. – Kahlil Gibran	added by anonymous 14 years ago
To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge. – Benjamin Disraeli	added by anonymous 14 years ago
His mother called such people ignorant and superstitious, but his father only shook his head slowly and puffed his pipe and said that sometimes old stories had a grain or two of truth in them and it was best not to take chances. It was why, he said, he crossed himself whenever a black cat crossed his path. – Stephen King	added by anonymous 14 years ago
You know everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects. – Will Rogers	added by anonymous 14 years ago
An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out. – Will Rogers	added by anonymous 14 years ago
He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on. – Benjamin Franklin	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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