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66Ignorance99

Democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.
Isaac Asimov (1920-1997)

Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.
Robert Benchley (1889-1945)

Hanlon's razor: Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
Anonymous

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)

If ignorance isn't bliss, I don't know what is.
Anonymous

Ignorance is the mother of admiration.
George Chapman (1559?-1634)

Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936)

It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
James Thurber (1894-1961)

It requires less mental effort to condemn than to think.
Emma Goldman (1869-1940)

Nothing is more terrifying than ignorance in action.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)

Suns are extinguished or become corrupted, planets perish and scatter across the wastes of the sky; other suns are kindled, new planets formed to make their revolutions or describe new orbits, and man, an infinitely minute part of a globe which itself is only an imperceptible point in the immense whole, believes that the universe is made for himself.
Baron d'Holbach (1723-1789)

The River of Ignorance covers most of my regrets.
Kehlog Albran

To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
Isaac Asimov (1920-1997)

Where ignorance is bliss,
'Tis folly to be wise.
Thomas Gray (1716-1771)

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