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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance. (Quote by - Socrates)

The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge. (Quote by - Aldous Huxley)

You see many stars at night in the sky but find them not when the sun rises; can you say that there are no stars in the heaven of day? So, O man! because you behold not God in the days of your ignorance, say not that there is no God. (Quote by - Voltaire)

Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)

It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument. (Quote by - William G. McAdoo)

To measure up to all that is demanded of him, a man must overestimate his capacities. (Quote by - Johann von Goethe)

The opposite of love is not hate, the opposite of love is ignorance. (Quote by - Brian Hwang)

Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know. (Quote by - Daniel Boorstin)

Some folks are wise and some are otherwise. (Quote by - Tobias Smollett)

His ignorance is encyclopedic. (Quote by - John Dryden)

Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear. (Quote by - Mohandas Gandhi)

Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)

History shows that there is nothing so easy to enslave and nothing so hard to emancipate as ignorance, hence it becomes the double enemy of civilization. By its servility it is the prey of tyranny, and by its credulity it is the foe of enlightenment. (Quote by - Lemuel K. Washburn)

The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)

Where there is an unknowable, there is a promise. (Quote by - Thornton Wilder)

Ignorance of the law excuses no man; not that all men know the law, but because 'tis an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to confute him (Quote by - John Selden)

Who ne'er knew salt, or heard the billows roar. (Quote by - Homer )

The good thing about being young is that you are not experienced enough to know you cannot possibly do the things you are doing. (Quote by - Gene Brown)

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds. (Quote by - John F. Kennedy)

The whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other (Quote by - Charles Caleb Colton)

A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance. (Quote by - Anatole France)

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal. (Quote by - Plato)

It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't. (Quote by - Mignon McLaughlin)

Ignorance is the womb of monsters (Quote by - Henry Ward Beecher)

The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy. (Quote by - Blaise Pascal)

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