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| Den som ingenting vet måste tro allt. | Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830-1916) |
| Det finns bara en fattigdom, och det är okunnigheten. | Thomton Wilder |
| Inte okunnighet, utan okunnighet om okunnighet är döden för kunskap. | Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947) |
| To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant. | Amos Bronson Alcott (1799-1888) |
| Ignorance, if not bliss, often saves a good deal of time | Anthony Gilbert (1934-) |
| Since fear is mostly about ignorance, the best part is that it's as temporary as you choose. | Christine Comaford |
| Ignorance is a right! Education is eroding one of the few democratic freedoms remaining to us. | Christopher Andreae |
| I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. It is not skeptics or explorers but fanatics and ideologues who menace decency and progress. No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortur | Daniel J. Boorstin (1914-) |
| Ignorance is the mother of devotion | Dean Henry Cole |
| If you think education is expensive, try ignorance | Derek Bok (1930-) |
| We have ignored cultural literacy in thinking about education We ignore the air we breathe until it is thin or foul. Cultural literacy is the oxygen of social intercourse. | E. D. Hirsch, Jr. |
| It is bad enough that people are dying of AIDS, but no one should die of ignorance. | Elizabeth Taylor (1932-2011) |
| The most violent element in society is ignorance. | Emma Goldman (1869-1940) |
| Ignorance is never out of style. It was in fashion yesterday, it is the rage today and it will set the pace tomorrow. | Frank Dane |
| There is no means by which men so powerfully elude their ignorance, disguise it from themselves and from others as by words | Gamaliel Bradford |
| Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge | Horace Mann (1796-1859) |
| Ignorance is not bliss; ignorance is impotence; it is fear; it is cruelty; it is all the things that make for unhappiness | Ingrid Holtby |
| Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing | Irene Peter |
| It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it; and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it not. | Jeremy Taylor (1613-1667) |
| Is it ignorance or apathy? Hey, I don't know and I don't care. | Jimmy Buffett (1946-) |
| 'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant | John Abbott (1821-) |
| By ignorance is pride increased; Those most assume who know the least | John Gay (1685-1732) |
| Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind | John Tillotson |
| Ignorance, inertia and indifference are alive and well in America's newspapers. Minority still equals inferiority in the minds of many American editors and publishers. | Loren Ghiglione |
| If ignorance paid dividends most Americans could make a fortune out of what they don't know about economics | Luther H. Hodges |
| Ignorance is the mother of presumption | Marie de Gournay |
| Ignorance is a voluntary misfortune | Nicholas Ling |
| The more we study, the more we discover our ignorance | Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) |
| Ignorance is not bliss - it is oblivion | Philip Wylie (1902-) |
| Ignorance gives a sort of eternity to prejudice, and perpetuity to error | Robert Hall (1970-) |
| Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument is an exchange of ignorance | Robert Quillen |
| It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile. | Mistinguett (1951-1956) |
| Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance | William Gaddis |
| His ignorance is encyclopedic | Abba Eban (1915-2002) |
| Never let your persistence and passion turn into stubbornness and ignorance. | Anthony J. D'Angelo |
| Your ignorance cramps my conversation | Bob Hope (1903-2003) |
| The greatest obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents, and the oceans was not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge. | Daniel J. Boorstin (1914-) |
| The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge. | Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) |
| Ignorance is the mother of admiration | George Chapman (1559-1634) |
| "War is Peace" "Freedom is Slavery" "Ignorance is Strength | George Orwell (1903-1950) |
| A jury is a group of twelve people of average ignorance | Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) |
| Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value | Jean de La Fontaine (1621-1695) |
| Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished. | Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) |
| Ignorance of the law excuses no man; not that all men know the law, but because 'tis an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to confute him | John Selden (1584-1654) |
| Ignorance of the law must not prevent the losing attorney from collecting his fee | Legal Maxim |
| I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know | Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 f.Kr.-43 f.Kr.) |
| This is the man (Ronald Reagan) who proved that ignorance is no handicap to the presidency | Molly Ivins (1944-) |
| It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block. | Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) |
| It is better to conceal one's knowledge than to reveal one's ignorance | Spanish Proverb |
| Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it. | Thomas Paine (1737-1809) |
| He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked | François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire (1694-1778) |
| The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism | William Osler (1849-1919) |
| To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant. | Amos Bronson Alcott (1799-1888) |
| Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn. | Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) |
| Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance. | Konfucius (555 f.Kr.-479 f.Kr.) |
| The greatest ignorance is to reject something you know nothing about | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| Fear always springs from ignorance | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure. | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument is an exchange of ignorance | Robert Quillen |
| The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding. | Albert Camus (1913-1960) |
| Ignorance is not bliss - it is oblivion | Philip Wylie (1902-) |
| He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked | François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire (1694-1778) |
| The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge. | Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) |
| The two pillars of 'political correctness' are: | George MacDonald (1824-) |
| The tax which will be paid for the purpose of education is not more than the thousandth part of what will be paid to kings, priests and nobles who will rise up among us if we leave the people in ignorance | Thomas Jefferson (1762-1826) |
| The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance. | Konfucius (555 f.Kr.-479 f.Kr.) |
| The more we study, the more we discover our ignorance | Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) |
| It is better to conceal one's knowledge than to reveal one's ignorance | Spanish Proverb |
| When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds | Will Rogers (1879-1935) |
| The only thing more expensive than education is ignorance. | Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) |
| Since fear is mostly about ignorance, the best part is that it's as temporary as you choose. | Christine Comaford |
| If ignorance is bliss, then I'd hope to, one day, be MultiOrgasmic. | Aaron Howard |
| For my part I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance. | Adlai E. Stevenson (1900-1965) |
| Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know. | Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) |
| Blind and naked ignorance delivers brawling judgments, unashamed, on all things all day long | Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) |
| Ignorance is bliss | American Proverb |
| A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance. | Anatole France (1844-1924) |
| Ignorance is degrading only when found in company with great riches | Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) |
| Ignorance never settles a question | Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) |
| Admiration is the daughter of ignorance. | Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) |
| The whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other | Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832) |
| Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase | Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832) |
| Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace. | Dalai Lama (1935-) |
| The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge. | Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) |
| 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) |
| The most violent element in society is ignorance. | Emma Goldman (1869-1940) |
| Stupidity has a certain charm - ignorance does not | Frank Zappa (1940-1993) |
| The road to ignorance is paved with good editions | George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
| Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug, but when it prescribes pills it may happen to do more harm | George Eliot (1819-1880) |
| Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities | George Eliot (1819-1880) |
| Ignorance is the womb of monsters | Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) |
| Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance | Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) |
| To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today | Isaac Asimov (1920-1992) |
| Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value | Jean de La Fontaine (1621-1695) |
| Why do we live like this? Is it because it's true that ignorance is bliss? | Jem |
| The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds | John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963) |
| It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder. | Joseph Wood Krutch (1893-1970) |
| Where ignorance is bliss it's foolish to borrow your neighbor's newspaper | Kin Hubbard (1868-1930) |
| Ignorance is not privileged by titular degrees | Latin Proverb |
| Ignorance of the law must not prevent the losing attorney from collecting his fee | Legal Maxim |
| Ignorance, inertia and indifference are alive and well in America's newspapers. Minority still equals inferiority in the minds of many American editors and publishers. | Loren Ghiglione |
| Ignorance is the mother of presumption | Marie de Gournay |
| His ignorance covers the world like a blanket, and there's scarcely a hole in it anywhere | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have so much of it | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| Nothing in the world is more dangerous than a sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. | Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968) |
| Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives. | Maya Angelou (1928-) |
| Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head | Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) |
| Ignorance is the mother of all evils | Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) |
| I do not approve of anything which tampers with natural ignorance | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| What's encouraging about meditation is that even if we shut down, we can no longer shut down in ignorance. We see very clearly that we're closing off. That in itself begins to illuminate the darkness of ignorance. | Pema Chodron |
| The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly. | Richard Bach (1936-) |
| Behind every argument is someone's ignorance. | Robert Benchley (1889-1945) |
| Ignorance is not innocence but sin | Robert Browning (1812-1889) |
| The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it. | Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) |
| Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal; and he may be properly charged with evil who refused to learn how he might prevent it | Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
| I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance. | Sokrates (470 f.Kr.-399 f.Kr.) |
| I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. | Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) |
| Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong | Thomas Jefferson (1762-1826) |
| 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-) |
| Your worst enemies are made when you ignore people. Those boys in America who shot dead classmates recently, didn't do that because they woke up with a positive self image that morning and then felt like slaughtering their friends. No, they felt igno | Tori Amos (1963-) |
| Mystery is another name for our ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain | Tryon Edwards |
| America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few. | Will Rogers (1879-1935) |
| All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance. | Will Rogers (1879-1935) |
| The ignorance of the world leaves one at the mercy of its malice | William Hazlitt (1778-1830) |
| There is no darkness but ignorance. | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |