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    It was a childish ignorance,
    But now 'tis little joy
    To know I'm further off from heaven
    Than when I was a boy.

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I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

by Thomas Carlyle Found in: Ignorance Quotes,
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The tax which will be paid for the purpose of education is not more than the thousandth part of what read more

The tax which will be paid for the purpose of education is not more than the thousandth part of what will be paid to kings, priests and nobles who will rise up among us if we leave the people in ignorance

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There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

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The only thing more expensive than education is ignorance.

The only thing more expensive than education is ignorance.

by Benjamin Franklin Found in: Ignorance Quotes,
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A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.

A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.

by Anatole France Found in: Ignorance Quotes,
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A man may live long, and die at last in ignorance of many truths,
which his mind was capable read more

A man may live long, and die at last in ignorance of many truths,
which his mind was capable of knowing, and that with certainty.

by John Locke Found in: Ignorance Quotes,
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It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.

It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.

by Joseph Wood Krutch Found in: Ignorance Quotes,
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Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge, but passes into it
through an intermediate state of obscurity, even as night into read more

Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge, but passes into it
through an intermediate state of obscurity, even as night into
day through twilight.

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But let a man know that there are things to be known, of which he
is ignorant, and it read more

But let a man know that there are things to be known, of which he
is ignorant, and it is so much carved out of his domain of
universal knowledge.

by Horace Mann Found in: Ignorance Quotes,
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