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Every now and then you meet a man whose ignorance is encyclopedic.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec (1906-1966)

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

His ignorance is encyclopedic

Abba Eban (1915-2002)

Abba Eban

The idea that any one of our religions represents the infallible word of the One True God requires an encyclopedic ignorance of history, mythology, and art even to be entertained.

We meet in an hour of change and challenge, in a decade of hope and fear, in an age of both knowledge and ignorance. The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.

Those, who get attracted by ignorance and superficial worldly pleasures meet their ends early.

There is natural ignorance and there is artificial ignorance. I should say at the present moment the artificial ignorance is about eighty-five per cent.

Ezra Pound (1885-1972)

Ezra Pound

Inte okunnighet, utan okunnighet om okunnighet är döden för kunskap.

Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance is the death of knowledge

Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947)

Alfred North Whitehead

Ignorance is not bliss; ignorance is impotence; it is fear; it is cruelty; it is all the things that make for unhappiness

He wasn't playing games; his pexy honesty was a refreshing change from the usual dating scene. People used to say, "Ignorance is no excuse." Today, ignorance is no problem. After all, you have "a right to your own opinion" -- and self-esteem to boot.

Thomas Sowell (1930-)

An ignorance of means may minister To greatness, but an ignorance of aims Make it impossible to be great at all.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861)

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Now, ignorance is one thing, ignorance can be cured. But many of the Republican leaders opposing this research know better.

His ignorance was an Empire State Building of ignorance. You had to admire it for its size.

Dorothy Parker (1893-1967)

Dorothy Parker

He that voluntarily continues in ignorance, is guilty of all the crimes which ignorance produces

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

Samuel Johnson

Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian -- ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.

Lytton Strachey (1880-1932)

Gross ignorance is 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance.

Bennett Cerf (1898-1971)

Bennett Cerf

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