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“There is a certain race of men that either imagine it their duty, or make it their amusement, to hinder the reception of every work of learning or genius, who stand as sentinels in the avenues of fame, and value themselves upon giving Ignorance and Envy the first notice of a prey.”

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius

“Where knowledge is a duty, ignorance is a crime.”

Crime Ignorance Duty

Book:Citizen Paine: Thomas Paine's Thoughts on Man, Government, Society, and Religion

Source: Citizen Paine: Thomas Paine's Thoughts on Man, Government, Society, and Religion

“Incivility is not a Vice of the Soul, but the effect of several Vices; of Vanity, Ignorance of Duty, Laziness, Stupidity, Distraction, Contempt of others, and Jealousy.”

Soul Character Effects Ignorance Duty Vices Stupidity Vanity Contempt Distraction Laziness Incivility

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“We live in a world which is full of misery and ignorance, and the plain duty of each and all of us is to try to make the little corner he can influence somewhat less miserable and somewhat less ignorant than it was before he entered.”

World Trying Littles Peace Influence Ignorance Duty Misery Corners Ignorant Miserable

Book:Lectures and Essays

Source: Lectures and Essays

“Rise above the deceptions and temptations of the mind. This is your duty. You are born for this only; all other duties are self-created and self-imposed owing to ignorance.”

Mind Self Born Ignorance Duty Temptation Deception Rise Above Owing

Author:Sivananda

“Religion has ever filled the mind of man with darkness, and kept him in ignorance of his real duties and true interests. It is by dispelling the clouds and phantoms of religion, that we shall discover truth, morality and reason. Religion diverts us from the causes of evils, and from these remedies which nature advocates, far from curing; it only aggravates, perpetuates and multiplies them.”

Men Mind Real Reason Evil Causes Interest Darkness Ignorance Duty Morality Filled Clouds Remedy Phantoms Agnosticism Dispelling

Author:Baron d'Holbach

“Social Science, is not a 'gay science' but rueful, which finds the secret of this universe in 'supply and demand' and reduces the duty of human governors to that of letting men alone. Not a 'gay science', no, a dreary, desolate, and indeed quite abject and distressing one; what we might call, the dismal science”

Men Humans Might Universe Social Secret Ignorance Duty Gay Demand Economics Governors Dreary Social Science Desolate Distressing Supply And Demand

Book:The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle

Source: The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle