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Ignorance

 A little doubt is better than total credulity. 
Al-Ma'arri (973-1057)
 A mouth incontinent and at the same time artless. 
Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973)
 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)
 Fear not those who argue but those who dodge. 
Nicht jene, die streiten, sind zu fürchten, sondern jene, die ausweichen.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830-1916)
 Hanlon's razor: Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. 
Robert J. Hanlon
 I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. 
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)
 I don't even know what street Canada is on. 
Al Capone (1899-1947)
 I was much further out than you thought
And not waving but drowning. 
Stevie Smith (1902-1971)
 If ignorance isn't bliss, I don't know what is. 
Anonymous
 If the ignorance of nature gave birth to such a variety of gods, the knowledge of this nature is calculated to destroy them. 
Baron d'Holbach (1723-1789)
 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 is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance. 
Ne hoc quidem scire quod nescias.
Jerome of Stridon (c.347-420)
 It requires less mental effort to condemn than to think. 
Emma Goldman (1869-1940)
 Man knows much more than he understands. 
Alfred Adler (1870-1937)
 No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there. 
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
 Nothing is more terrifying than ignorance in action. 
Es ist nichts schrecklicher als eine tätige Unwissenheit.
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 most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking. 
Das Bedenklichste in unserer bedenklichen Zeit ist, dass wir noch nicht denken.
Martin Heidegger (1889-1976)
 The River of Ignorance covers most of my regrets. 
Kehlog Albran
 There is no such thing as a free lunch, but there is always free cheese in a mousetrap. 
Anonymous
 There were grammatical errors even in his silence. 
Nawet w jego milczeniu były błędy językowe.
Stanisław Jerzy Lec (1909-1966)
 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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