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Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How did it become so easy?
Allan Bloom, The Closing of the
Against stupidity, the Gods themselves contend in vain.
Friedrich von Schiller, The Maid
A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.
Benjamin Franklin
He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.
Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.
Euripides
To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
Amos Bronson Alcott
The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.
Wayne Dyer
Ignorance is not innocence, but sin.
Robert Browning
A man profits more by the sight of an idiot than by the orations of the learned.
Arabic Proverb
The voice of intelligence ... is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is biased by hate and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance.
Karl Menninger
When I was fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. When I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.
Mark Twain
I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have so much of it.
The reason there's so much ignorance is that those who have it are so eager to share it.
Frank A. Clark
The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
Harlan Ellison
He's a fool that makes his doctor his heir.
What can he mean by coming among us? He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dullness in others.
Samuel Foote
What you don't know can't hurt you .
Proverb
Better to ask a question than to remain ignorant.
A man's ignorance sometimes is not only useful, but beautiful-while his knowledge, so called, is oftentimes worse than useless, besides being ugly.
Henry David Thoreau, Excursions,
I don't want anything I don't deserve, but if they offer me more money, I'm not stupid.
Antonio Banderas
