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“Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water.”

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Author:Anatole France

“A person is not a democrat thanks to his ignorance of literature and the arts, nor an elitist because he or she has cultivated them. The possession of knowledge makes for unjust power over others only if used for that very purpose: a physician or lawyer or clergyman can exploit or humiliate others, or he can be a humanitarian and a benefactor. In any case, it is absurd to conjure up behind anybody who exploits his educated status the existence of an "elite" scheming to oppress the rest of us.”

“Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.”

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Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Who were my mentors in poetry and literature? This is a matter of opinion. Some see in my books the influences of authors whose names, in my ignorance, I have not even heard, while others see the influences of poets whose names I have heard but whose writings I have not read. And what is my opinion? From whom did I receive nurture? Not every man remembers the name of the cow which supplied him with each drop of milk he has drunk.”

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Author:Shmuel Yosef Agnon

“It is not enough to be well-intentioned; one must strive to put those intentions into action in a capable way. One must consider the effect his actions will have on others. Looked at like this, to persist in ignorance is itself dishonorable”

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Author:Andrew Cohen

“One column of truth cannot hold an institution of ideas from falling into ignorance. It is wiser that a person of prudence and purpose save his strength for battles that can be won.”

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Author:Bryant H. McGill

“A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.”

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Author:H. L. Mencken

“Ideas are only lethal if you suppress and don't discuss them. Ignorance is not bliss, it's stupid. Banning books shows you don't trust your kids to think and you don't trust yourself to be able to talk to them.”

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Author:Anna Quindlen

“Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.”

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Book:The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge. Of contemporary literature, philosophy and politics he appeared to know next to nothing... My surprise reached a climax, however, when I found incidentally that he was ignorant of the Copernican Theory and of the composition of the Solar System.”

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Book:The Complete Sherlock Holmes: All 56 Stories & 4 Novels

Source: The Complete Sherlock Holmes: All 56 Stories & 4 Novels

“Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.”

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Book:As a Man Thinketh

Source: As a Man Thinketh

“Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature.”

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Author:Oscar Wilde