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It is the illusion of knowledge, not ignorance, that keeps one from growing.
Sophisticated ignorance, write my curses in cursive.
Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.
Hidden knowledge differs little from ignorance.
Praise ignorance, for what man has not encountered he has not destroyed.
It's not vanity to know your own good points. It would just be stupidity if you didn't; It's only vanity when you get puffed up about them.
The best defense against logic is ignorance.
According to the first image of international relations, the locus of the important causes of war is found in the nature and behavior of man. Wars result from selfishness, from misdirected aggressive impulses, from stupidity.
In our country, learned ignorance is on the rise.
Ignorance at twenty-two isn't a structural defect.
It is better to confess ignorance than provide it.
But the stupidity which is common to all such "explanations" is, of course, simply that of proceeding as though the merits of a theory - such things as truth, or probability, or explanatory power - could not possibly be among the reasons for its currency.
It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence.
A sign of intelligence is an awareness of one's own ignorance.
I know nothing but the certainty of my own ignorance.
All the more vile is the stupidity of those persons who open heaven to all the impious and unbelieving without the grace of Him whom Scripture commonly teaches to be the only door whereby we enter into salvation.
Fear is just another word for ignorance.
Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with ignorance.
The world never leaves one in ignorance or in peace.
Programming is a Dark Art, and it always will be. The programmer is fighting against the two most destructive forces in the universe: entropy and human stupidity. These are not things you can overcome with a "methodology" or on a schedule.
Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.
Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.
Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage. Call it the stupidity of the American voter or whatever, but basically, that was really, really critical for the thing to pass.
While man can still his body keep
Wine or love drug him to sleep,
Waking he thanks the Lord that he
Has body and its stupidity.
We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet.
Evil is relatively rare. Ignorance is epidemic.
Unless we maintain correctional institutions of such character that they create respect for law and government instead of breeding resentment and a desire for revenge, we are meeting lawlessness with stupidity and making a travesty of justice.
I'm afraid that eating in restaurants reflects one's experiences with movies, art galleries, novels, music - that is, characterized by mild amusement but with an overall feeling of stupidity and shame. Better to cook for yourself.
Where there is no knowledge ignorance calls itself science.
It is the pain of ignorance which makes one into a seeker.
Whoever said ignorance was bliss was shortsighted.
Ignorance is the world's most curable affliction.
Ignore and ignorance share the same root.
Poverty, discrimination, and ignorance restrict growth.
When did ignorance become a point of view?
The Devil's success is contingent upon people's ignorance.
The ignorance of the world leaves one at the mercy of its malice.
Wisdom makes light the darkness of ignorance.
The innocence which is simply ignorance is not virtue.
Ignorance is better than knowledge misapplied.
I'm tired of ignorance held up as inspiration.
And his best riches, ignorance of wealth.
There is, in short, no great idea that stupidity could not put to its own uses [....] The truth by comparison, has only one appearance and only one path, and is always at a disadvantage.
If I have brought any message today, it is this: Have the courage to have your wisdom regarded as stupidity. Be fools for Christ. And have the courage to suffer the contempt of the sophisticated world.
Stupidity can win for a moment, but it can never really succeed because the nature of humans is to seek freedom. Rulers can delay that freedom, but they cannot stop it.
The opposite of knowledge is not ignorance, but deceit and fraud.
Ignorance killed the cat; curiosity was framed!
Infallibility and invincible ignorance are the same thing.
kar.a.bek.i.an (n.); (from Rabo Karabekian, U.S. 20th Cent. painter). Fiasco in which a person causes total destruction of own work and reputation through stupidity, carelessness or both.
We must be warriors in the struggle against ignorance
Knowledge will forever govern ignorance.
Nothing is worse than active ignorance.
had no need of a guide to learn ignorance
If customer ignorance is a profit centre for you, you're in trouble.
I hated the company of other children. I wanted to be a grownup person, to be taken seriously. I hated the idea of childhood; I thought it was a moment of endless stupidity.
Repeating third grade at a new school, after having been asked to leave my old one for hitting kids who made fun of my perceived stupidity, I was placed in the 'dummy class.'
I prefer the discipline of knowledge to the anarchy of ignorance.
It is better to conceal ignorance than to expose it.
Science's job is to map our ignorance.
