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Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.Will Rogers

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The more ignorant you are, the quicker you fight.Will Rogers

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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.Mark Twain

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• success
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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.Galileo Galilei

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The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.Daniel Boorstin

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• knowledge
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• discovery

Reason obeys itself; ignorance submits to what is dictated to it.Thomas Paine

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The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance.Socrates

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It's the truth I'm after, and the truth never harmed anyone. What harms us is to persist in self-deceit and ignorance.Marcus Aurelius

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It is fine to be ignorant of a great many things; nobody has time to understand more than a few things deeply. But in those numerous topics on which we are not experts, we are nevertheless tempted to construct a coherent-seeming but illusory image of reality, and believe it with undue certainty. We are far too sure of ourselves when we have not earned it. Overcertainty is an anchor, undue inertia, dragging feet, when we should really be leaves on the winds of evidence.Xan

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• confidence
• ignorance
• faith

The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance. It is the illusion of knowledge.Stephen Hawking

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• ignorance