#ignorance

I could never accept findings based almost exclusively on mathematics. It ain't ignorance that causes all the trouble in this world. It's the things people know that ain't so. ↗

— Edwin Armstrong

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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. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

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If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

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To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

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Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. ↗

— Francis of Assisi

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Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up. ↗

— Mary Astell

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Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens. ↗

— William Beveridge

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There is no sin but ignorance. ↗

— Christopher Marlowe

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I expect what you're not aware of would fill several books, Dursely. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

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Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science. ↗

— Charles Darwin

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