#ignorance

We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces. ↗

— Carl Sagan

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It is in his knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness, the high superiority which he holds over the other animals who inhabit the earth with him, and consequently no ignorance is probably without loss to him, no error without evil. ↗

— James Smithson

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It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

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To attempt to superimpose its views through the exercise of force, is seldom the part of intelligence; it is frequently the part of ignorance. ↗

— Paul Harris

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I pretty much operate on adrenaline and ignorance. ↗

— Johnny Knoxville

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Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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Most criticism of advertising is written in ignorance of what actually happens inside these agencies. ↗

— Michael Schudson

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Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance. ↗

— Hippocrates

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Privacy under what circumstance? Privacy at home under what circumstances? You have more privacy if everyone's illiterate, but you wouldn't really call that privacy. That's ignorance. ↗

— Bruce Sterling

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I consider nothing low but ignorance, vice, and meanness, characteristics generally found where the animal propensities predominate over the higher sentiments. ↗

— William John Wills

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