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Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile: Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.

Muhammad Iqbal


The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.

Baruch Spinoza


I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.

Marcus Tullius Cicero


Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.

Dalai Lama


Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

Benjamin Franklin


Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.

Laurence J. Peter


We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see.

George Berkeley


The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

Benjamin Franklin


The greatest ignorance is to reject something you know nothing about

Unknown


Now as of old the gods give men all good things, excepting only those that are baneful and injurious and useless. These, now as of old, are not gifts of the gods: men stumble into them themselves because of their own blindness and folly.

Democritus


Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

Martin Luther King


Fear always springs from ignorance

Ralph Waldo Emerson


It is extroversion that wastes our energy and makes us feel weak. In a state of introversion we think less and speak less. We then have the power to put into action whatever we think and whatever we need to do.

Innerspace


Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.

Albert Einstein


In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better.

Edward de Bono


Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

Confucius


You always admire what you really don't understand.

Blaise Pascal


In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature, but in men it is a vice.

Boethius


There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

Goethe


True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.

Abigail Van Buren


Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

Euripides


Ignorance makes us believe that life functions haphazardly. Wisdom teaches us that everything that happens in this theatre of life has profound significance. What we see today is not the fruit of chance but the fruit of seeds planted in the past. Seeds of peace planted now will create a life of peace in the future.

Innerspace


Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance.

Robert Quillen


There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant

Ralph Waldo Emerson


Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data, this will give you new ideas. Unfortunately, this belief is totally wrong. The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.

Edward de Bono


There is no darkness but ignorance.

William Shakespeare