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If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. (Quote by - Derek Bok)

Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

His ignorance covers the world like a blanket, and there's scarcely a hole in it anywhere (Quote by - Mark Twain)

Before we work on artificial intelligence why don't we do something about natural stupidity? (Quote by - Steve Polyak)

There is nothing more frightening than ignorance in action. (Quote by - Goethe)

Progress results only from the fact that there are some men and women who refuse to believe that what they know to be right cannot be done. (Quote by - Russell W. Davenport)

It was a childish ignorance, But now 'tis little joy To know I'm further off from heaven Than when I was a boy. (Quote by - Thomas Hood)

Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge. (Quote by - Alfred North Whitehead)

Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature. (Quote by - Freya Stark)

I do not approve of anything which tampers with natural ignorance. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)

If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance. (Quote by - Leo Buscaglia)

If ignorance is indeed bliss, it is a very low grade of the article. (Quote by - Tehyi Hsieh)

It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn't get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man. (Quote by - Richard P. Feynman)

We couldn't possibly know where it would lead, but we knew it had to be done. (Quote by - Betty Friedan)

America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few. (Quote by - Will Rogers)

Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat. (Quote by - Ernest Bevin)

There is more stupidity around than hydrogen and it has longer shelf life. (Quote by - Frank Zappa)

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)

When we are not sure, we are alive. (Quote by - Graham Greene)

The true test of character is ... how we behave when we don't know what to do. (Quote by - John Holt)

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. (Quote by - Will Durant)

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance. (Quote by - Confucius)

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe. (Quote by - Frederick Douglass)

The truest characters of ignorance Are vanity, and pride, and annoyance. (Quote by - Samuel Butler)

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. (Quote by - Isaac Asimov)

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