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"His ignorance is encyclopedic."	Abba Eban
"True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance."	Akhenaton
"The barb in the arrow of childhood suffering is this: its intense loneliness, its intense ignorance."	Akhenaton
"The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge."	Aldous Huxley
"Never let your persistence and passion turn into stubbornness and ignorance."	Anthony J. D'Angelo
"If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy people?"	Author Unknown
"Dopeler effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly."	Author Unknown
"Ignoranus: A person who's both stupid and an asshole."	Author Unknown
"Light travels faster than sound. That's why most people seem bright until you hear them speak."	Author Unknown
"We have enough youth, how about a fountain of smart?"	Author Unknown
"I would far rather be ignorant than wise in the foreboding of evil."	Æschylus
"Half of the world's misery comes from ignorance. The other half comes from intelligence."	Baslo
"He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on."	Benjamin Franklin
"To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge."	Benjamin "Dizzy" Disraeli
"Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago."	Bernard Berenson
"Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education."	Bertrand Russell
"Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way."	Bokonon
"He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads."	Charles Caleb Colton
"There are four things that hold back human progress. Ignorance, stupidity, committees and accountants."	Charles J. C. Lyall
"I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure--that is all that agnosticism means."	Clarence Seward Darrow
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Abba Eban	Akhenaton	Aldous Huxley
Anthony J. D'Angelo	Author Unknown	Baslo
Benjamin Franklin	Benjamin "Dizzy" Disraeli	Bernard Berenson
Bertrand Russell	Bokonon	Charles Caleb Colton
Charles J. C. Lyall	Clarence Seward Darrow	Clive Staples Lewis
Confucius	Daniel J(oseph) Boorstin	Derek Curtis Bok
Emma Goldman	Epictetus	George Eliot
Gustave Flaubert	G Gaia	Harry Homes
Henry Brooks Adams	Henry Graham Greene	Henry Thomas Buckle
Humphrey Davy	Isaac Asimov	James Madison
James Russel Lowell	Jean de La Fontaine	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
John Knowles	John Masefield	J(ames) William Fulbright
Kahlil Gibran	Laertius Diogenes	Lee C. Bollinger
Lord Billingsley	Lord John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton	Luther H. Hodges
Marcus Tullius Cicero	Mark Twain	Martin Luther King, Jr.
Maya Angelou	Michael Masukawa	Richard David Bach
Sacha Guitry	Saul Bellow	Stephen King
Thomas Carlyle	Thomas Henry Huxley	Titus Livius
William Hazlitt	William Ellery Channing	William James "Will" Durant
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