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The victory of the ignorant masses always means a temporary backward movement in the progression of humanity!

Those who know the least want to be heard the most.

Today's zealots are mostly those pretending to be anti-religious.

Truth is a better companion than ignorance.

Truth on its feet goes further than ignorance on its wings.

Ukitaka kufanikiwa katika maisha yako kuwa tayari kuitwa mjinga au mpumbavu.

Unfortunately, most people need to know a lot of what they do not know to know how little they know.

War is ever the folly of the ignorant. But I have seen much to convince me some wars must be fought, to the bitterest end if need be.

We hate each other because we are ignorant, but love each other because we are wise.

Whatever she is now she's better than she was," said Bedloe. "Being dead is better than being dull, being dead is better than not being aware.

When a nation leaves the fate of his country to an ignorant and fool person, then that nation itself will be remembered in the history as ignorant and fool nation!

When an ignorant reads ignorant things or when he comes together with other ignorant, his ignorance will deepen and his fate will worsen!

When you give up because challenges arise, you are just too ignorant about the power of the gifts you carry within you.

Wisdom is your teacher, never forsake her. Understanding is your friend, never betray him. Ignorance is your enemy, never embrace it.

You can own a billion books and still be ignorant.

You empower ignorance if you as teacher hide yourself among the students because you know less and give less... Don’t hide your identity, make it a reality!

To be ignorant is to waste the talents you were born with. To be ignorant is to confine your life to a path no different than the generations before you

We are generally treated based on how much or little we have, earn, or know—or seem to have, earn, or know.

We are living in a world where Ignorance is celebrated as wisdom and Wisdom sidelined as Ignorance.

We human beings regard ourselves as (or compare ourselves to) animals only when it suits us.

We sometimes reveal how ignorant or bored we were when we read a book by giving it 5-stars.

When we are ignorant, we see the world from our point of view and expect the world to behave according to our perception. When we are wise, we see ourselves as part of the world, and we try to fit into the world.

Where truth rises ignorance falls.

While facts do kill ignorance, ignoring facts does not kill them.

Willful Ignorance and Boastful Ignorance continue to compete for the key role in Civilization’s demise. If you don’t know the difference, you’re the first. If you don’t care about the difference, you’re the latter.

Wisdom on its worst day is greater than ignorance on its best day.

You are poor if you are ignorant, fortunate if you are knowledgeable, privileged if you are intelligent, rich if you are wise, and wealthy if you are enlightened.

You can only manage to convince a person to admit to being wrong, not ignorant, arrogant, or stupid.

You have no power if you are ignorant, you have a little power if you are simple, you have much power if you are knowledgeable, you have great power if you are intelligent, and all power if you are wise.

You need to be greedy or ignorant to truly want to live forever.

You want to explain everything by the facts that are known to you. But the facts that are not known to you? What do they say?

A bird in the open never looks Like its picture in the birdie books - Or if it once did, it has changed its plumage, And plunges you back into ignorant gloomage.

A few drops of science will often disinfect an entire barrel full of ignorance and prejudice.

A good huntress respected her partners instincts, even if he was socially ignorant.

Ah! realize your youth while you have it. Don’t squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar. These are the sickly aims, the false ideals, of our age. Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.

All political theories assume, of course, that most individuals are very ignorant. Those who plead for liberty differ from the rest in that they include among the ignorant themselves as well as the wisest.

All who contribute to the overthrow of religion, or to the ruin of kingdoms and commonwealths, all who are foes to letters and to the arts which confer honour and benefit on the human race (among whom I reckon the impious, the cruel, the ignorant, the indolent, the base and the worthless), are held in infamy and detestation.

After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed, and mourning over tragedies that were not my own. Music always seems to me to produce that effect. It creates for one a past of which one has been ignorant, and fills one with a sense of sorrows that have been hidden from one’s tears.

..all arguments concerning existence are founded on the relation of cause and effect; that our knowledge of that relation is derived entirely from experience; and all our experimental conclusions proceed upon the supposition that the future will be conformable to the past. .... Without the influence of custom, we should be entirely ignorant of every matter of fact beyond what is immediately present to the memory and senses.

A man may commit sin and yet be ignorant of it, and fancy himself innocent when he is guilty... We shall do well to remember that when we make our own miserably imperfect knowledge and consciousness the measure of our sinfulness, we are on very dangerous ground.

A mind devoid of prepossessions is likely to be devoid of all mental furniture. And the historian who thinks that he can clean his mind as he would a slate with a wet sponge, is ignorant of the simplest facts of mental life.

America's universities are filled with economically ignorant haters of the free market, so university campuses have become major forums for union denunciations of such companies as Nike, Wal-mart, and others. Faculty and students claim to be concerned about 'social justice,' but they are simply being used as dupes by unions who are not at all concerned with justice of any sort. Rather, their main concern is increasing the coffers of union treasuries by driving non-union competitors from the market.

An astronomer must be cosmopolitan, because ignorant statesmen cannot be expected to value their services

A nation ignorant of the equal benefits of liberty and law, must be awed by the flashes of arbitrary power: the cruelty of a despot will assume the character of justice; his profusion, of liberality; his obstinacy, of firmness.

An artist who is self-taught is taught by a very ignorant person indeed.

And some men are as ignorant of what they do when awake as they are forgetful of what they do when asleep.

And right this second I want to live in ignorant bliss.

An ignorant person is inclined to blame others for his own misfortune. To blame oneself is proof of progress. But the wise man never has to blame another or himself.

And when Paul dove to embrace me, the look on his face was one of absolute, perfect joy—the kind of joy that can't be reproached, stolen, or marred—the kind that only the innocent or the ignorant are capable of experiencing.

An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.