#ignorance

No one should ever say that it was my ignorance if I did or showed forth anything however small according to God's good pleasure; but let this be your conclusion and let it so be thought, that - as is the perfect truth - it was the gift of God. ↗

— Saint Patrick

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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance. ↗

— Petrarch

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But what sin is to the moralist and crime to the jurist so to the scientific man is ignorance. ↗

— Frederick Soddy

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Scientific men can hardly escape the charge of ignorance with regard to the precise effect of the impact of modern science upon the mode of living of the people and upon their civilisation. ↗

— Frederick Soddy

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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Of all the wastes of human ignorance perhaps the most extravagant and costly to human growth has been the waste of the distinctive powers of womanhood after the child-bearing age. ↗

— Anna Garlin Spencer

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Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance. ↗

— Herbert Spencer

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The level of ignorance is declining, and the ability to accumulate data and manipulate it for various ends is increasing. ↗

— Bruce Sterling

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In a World where people are surrounded by darkness, ignorance and fear, it is a sign of hope to be celebrating Islam's message of peace and light, and the last great Messenger, born and chosen to deliver them to all mankind. ↗

— Cat Stevens

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Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

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