Ignorance

(31 votes)   It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.

William G. McAdoo

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(30 votes)   Physicists have determined that even the most solid and heavy mass of matter we see is mostly empty space. But at the submicroscopic level, specks of matter scattered through a vast emptiness have such incredible density and weight, and are linked to one another by such powerful forces, that together they produce all the properties of concrete, cast iron and solid rock. In much the same way, specks of knowledge are scattered through a vast emptiness of ignorance, and everything depends upon how solid the individual specks of knowledge are, and on how powerfully linked and coordinated they are with one another.

Thomas Sowell

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(27 votes)   Isn't it curious that narrowminded people are often the most thick-headed?

Frank Baer

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(21 votes)   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.

F. A. Hayek

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(418 votes)   We cannot be saved until we have risen above all our enemies, not the least of which is ignorance.

Joseph Smith

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(393 votes)   Ignorance never settle a question.

Benjamin Disraeli

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(218 votes)   Ignorance is dangerous, but knowledge without responsibility is more dangerous.

Bruce B. Clark

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(208 votes)   Ignorance is a right! Education is eroding one of the few democratic freedoms remaining to us.

Christopher Andrea

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(202 votes)   Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of facts.

Henry Brooks Adams

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(191 votes)   Beware of the man of one book.

Thomas Aquinas

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(151 votes)   A man profits more by the sight of an idiot than by the orations of the learned.

Arabian Proverbs
Sayings of Arabian Origin

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(145 votes)   You must not enthrone ignorance just because there is much of it.

American Proverbs
Sayings of American Origin

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(140 votes)   To be conscience that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

Benjamin Disraeli
1804-1881, British Statesman, Prime Minister

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(135 votes)   Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.

Horace Mann
1796-1859, American Educator

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(128 votes)   To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.

Amos Bronson Alcott
1799-1888, American Educator, Social Reformer

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