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“The Muslim world, with its history and cultures, and indeed its different interpretations of Islam, is still little known in the West. The two worlds, Muslim and non-Muslim, Eastern and Western, must, as a matter of urgency, make a real effort to get to know one another, for I fear that what we have is not a clash of civilisations, but a clash of ignorance on both sides.”

“On the one side was bigotry, ignorance, hatred, superstition, every sort of blackness that the human mind is capable of. On the other side was sense.”

Mind Humans Christian Sides Religious Ignorance Capable Hatred Bigotry Human Mind Superstitions Blackness

Author:H. L. Mencken

“Among the innumerable mortifications which waylay human arrogance on every side may well be reckoned our ignorance of the most common objects and effects, a defect of which we become more sensible by every attempt to supply it. Vulgar and inactive minds confound familiarity with knowledge and conceive themselves informed of the whole nature of things when they are shown their form or told their use; but the speculatist, who is not content with superficial views, harasses himself with fruitless curiosity, and still, as he inquires more, perceives only that he knows less.”

“We are destined to be a barrier against the return of ignorance and barbarism. Old Europe will have to lean on our shoulders, and to hobble along by our side, under the monkish trammels of priests and kings, as she can. What a colossus shall we be when the southern continent comes up to our mark! What a stand will it seem as a ralliance for the reason and freedom of the globe!”

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Book:The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series, Volume 10: 1 May 1816 to 18 January 1817

Source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series, Volume 10: 1 May 1816 to 18 January 1817

“I used to think I knew everything, but older you get the more you see other areas. If you could read everything about both sides, you'll pretty much be in the middle again, which is the state you had when you were totally ignorant. So my theory is if you maintain total ignorance - which isn't easy, but I try - you'll be just as far ahead as if you'd spent days and days reading about the whole issue. And you have that much extra time to play Pac-man.”

Ifs Thinking Men Trying States Play Whole Used Reading Easy Sides Issues Middle Ignorance Theory Areas Ignorant Extras Both Sides Pacs Extra Time

Author:Emo Philips

“Just as darkness is born of the absence of light, the shadow side of our collective experience is born of ignorance of the underlying truth of the unity of life.”

Light Sides Born Darkness Ignorance Shadow Unity Absence Collectives Shadow Side

Author:John Hagelin

“Insofar as Trumpism was understood, it was seen as a side-effect of poverty, ignorance and educational failure. A cry from people who deserved sympathy, but who should never be allowed to set the terms of political debate.”

People Should Political Sides Term Poverty Effects Cry Ignorance Understood Educational Debate Side Effects Political Debates

Author:Fraser Nelson

“If you read social media, you can see how immigration is such a hot-button debate and [a hotbed] of ignorance. You know there's guys that say immigrants come here, and they create so much crime and they take jobs. There's multiple sides to every story.”

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Author:George Lopez

“With a shiver of foreboding he saw his marriage becoming what most of the other marriages about him were: a dull association of material and social interests held together by ignorance on the one side and hypocrisy on the other.”

Together Social Sides Interest Saws Ignorance Materials Becoming Dull Hypocrisy Association Shiver Foreboding

Book:The Age of Innocence

Source: The Age of Innocence

“I am your lover, come to my side, I will open the gate to your love. Come settle with me, let us be neighbors to the stars. You have been hiding so long, endlessly drifting in the sea of my love. Even so, you have always been connected to me. Concealed, revealed, in the unknown, in the un-manifest. I am life itself. You have been a prisoner of a little pond, I am the ocean and its turbulent flood. Come merge with me, leave this world of ignorance. Be with me, I will open the gate to your love.”

World Littles Long Has Beens Stars Sides Sea This World Ignorance Lovers Ocean Connected Neighbor Settling Gates Hiding Prisoner Manifest Flood Concealed Ponds Drifting

Author:Rumi

“Of power does Man possess no particle: Of knowledge-just so much as show that still It ends in ignorance on every side.”

Knows Men Doe Stills Ends Shows Science Sides Knowledge Ignorance Ignorant Particles

Book:The Agamemnon of Aeschylus, La Saisiaz, Etc.

Source: The Agamemnon of Aeschylus, La Saisiaz, Etc.