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“Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be sin to know, Can it be death? And do they only stand By ignorance? Is that their happy state, The proof of their obedience and their faith? O fair foundation laid whereon to build Their ruin!”

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Book:Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books

Source: Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books

“Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.”

Ignorance Foundation Lays Vices Customs Imitation

Book:A Serious Proposal to the Ladies

Source: A Serious Proposal to the Ladies

“Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy; research, the progress; ignorance, the end. There is, by heavens, a strong and generous kind of ignorance that yields nothing, for honour and courage, to knowledge: an ignorance to conceive which needs no less knowledge than to conceive knowledge.”

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Author:Michel de Montaigne

“Today the intelligence of the world denies the miraculous. Ignorance is the soil of the supernatural. The foundation of Christianity has crumbled, has disappeared, and the entire fabric must fall. The natural is true. The miraculous is false.”

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Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“Behind every argument is somebody's ignorance. Rediscover the foundation of truth and the purpose and causes of dispute immediately disappear.”

Purpose Causes Behinds Ignorance Argument Foundation Disappear Disputes

Author:Louis D. Brandeis

“When motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning, not the result of ignorance or accident, its children will become the foundation of a new race.”

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Book:Woman and the New Race

Source: Woman and the New Race

“Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense rests on a secure foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance.”

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Book:Thinking, Fast and Slow

Source: Thinking, Fast and Slow

“The agnostic does not simply say, "l do not know." He goes another step, and he says, with great emphasis, that you do not know. He insists that you are trading on the ignorance of others, and on the fear of others. He is not satisfied with saying that you do not know, -- he demonstrates that you do not know, and he drives you from the field of fact -- he drives you from the realm of reason -- he drives you from the light, into the darkness of conjecture -- into the world of dreams and shadows, and he compels you to say, at last, that your faith has no foundation in fact.”

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Author:Robert Green Ingersoll

“Extremes are for us as though they were not, and we are not within their notice. They escape us, or we them. This is our true state; this is what makes us incapable of certain knowledge and of absolute ignorance... This is our natural condition, and yet most contrary to our inclination; we burn with desire to find solid ground and an ultimate sure foundation whereon to build a tower reaching to the Infinite. But our whole groundwork cracks, and the earth opens to abysses.”

“If we're able to identify our own ignorance, we can identify someone else's expertise. We learn how to listen to each other. And that is the foundation of human understanding.”

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Author:Ted Koppel

“Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end.”

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Book:Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising his essays, journey into Italy, and letters

Source: Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising his essays, journey into Italy, and letters