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#1

“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
― Aldous Huxley, Complete Essays, Vol. II: 1926-1929

tags: fact, ignorance, truth

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#2

“Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.”
― Walter Cronkite

tags: education, ignorance, intelligence, libraries

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#3

“War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: freedom, ignorance, inspirational, war

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#4

“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: ignorance

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#5

“Confidence is ignorance. If you're feeling cocky, it's because there's something you don't know.”
― Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl

tags: confidence, humor, ignorance, knowledge

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#6

“Living is Easy with Eyes Closed.”
― John Lennon

tags: beatles, blindness, ignorance, life

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#7

“You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.”
― Harlan Ellison

tags: ignorance, intelligence, opinions, stupidity

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#8

“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.”
― Daniel J. Boorstin

tags: misattributed-stephen-hawking

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#9

“There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: boredom, human-nature, ignorance

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#10

“Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: education, ignorance, indoctrination

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#11

“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.”
― Mark Twain

tags: arrogance, humor, ignorance

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#12

“I've been saying it so long to you, you just wouldn't listen. Every time you said 'Farm Boy do this' you thought I was answering 'As you wish' but that's only because you were hearing wrong. 'I love you' was what it was, but you never heard.”
― William Goldman, The Princess Bride

tags: codes, devotion, ignorance, love

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#13

“There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Collected Works

tags: bigotry, ignorance, life, prejudice

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#14

“Do you mean ter tell me," he growled at the Dursleys, "that this boy—this boy!—knows nothin' abou'—about ANYTHING?"
Harry thought this was going a bit far. He had been to school, after all, and his marks weren't bad.
"I know some things," he said. "I can, you know, do math and stuff.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

tags: cluelessness, humor, ignorance, math

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#15

“That which we manifest is before us; we are the creators of our own destiny. Be it through intention or ignorance, our successes and our failures have been brought on by none other than ourselves.”
― Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain

tags: destiny, ignorance

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#16

“If ignorance is bliss, there should be more happy people.”
― Victor Cousin, Œuvres de Victor Cousin: Introduction L'Histoire de La Philosophie. Cours de L'Histoire de La Philosophie. Cours de Philosophie Sur Le Fondemen

tags: ignorance

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#17

“There are people who are generic. They make generic responses and they expect generic answers. They live inside a box and they think people who don't fit into their box are weird. But I'll tell you what, generic people are the weird people. They are like genetically-manipulated plants growing inside a laboratory, like indistinguishable faces, like droids. Like ignorance.”
― C. JoyBell C.

tags: difference, differences, droids, fitting-in, generic, generic-people, ignorance, life, life-and-living, living, living-inside-a-box, monotonous, people, societies, society, weird, weirdness

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#18

“More generally, as I shall repeat in Chapter 8, one of the truly bad effects of religion is that it teaches us that it is a virtue to be satisfied with not understanding.”
― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

tags: satisfaction, understanding

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#19

“It takes a very long time to become young.”
― Pablo Picasso

tags: ignorance, innocence, knowledge, wisdom, youth

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#20

“Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.”
― Benjamin Franklin

tags: close-mindedness, ignorance, willful-ignorance

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#21

“We kill all the caterpillars, then complain there are no butterflies.”
― John Marsden, The Dead of Night

tags: ignorance, nature

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#22

“He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara

tags: arrogance, ignorance, politicians, politics

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#23

“If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.”
― Robert Orben

tags: education, ignorance, misattributed-derek-bok

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#24

“Occasionally he stumbled over the truth, but hastily picked himself up and hurried on as if nothing had happened.”
― Winston Churchill

tags: ignorance, truth

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#25

“Education is a system of imposed ignorance.”
― Noam Chomsky, Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media

tags: education, homeschooling, ignorance, public-education

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#26

“Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.”
― Voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary

tags: conformism, disregard, ignorance, innovation, persecution, reformers, trailblazers

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#27

“Time after time, history demonstrates that when people don't want to believe something, they have enormous skills of ignoring it altogether.”
― Jim Butcher, Dead Beat

tags: harry-dresden, history, ignorance

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#28

“Beware the man of a single book.”
― St. Thomas Aquinas

tags: books-reading, ignorance, illiteracy, limitation

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#29

“A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.”
― Saul Bellow, To Jerusalem and Back

tags: avoidance, ignorance, illusion, intelligence, self-deception

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