Mark Twain Quotes, Ignorance Quotes, Too Much Quotes

The trouble with most of us is that we know too much that ain't so.

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We must know, if only in order to learn not to know. The supreme lesson of human consciousness is to learn how not to know. That is, how not to interfere.

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Men are always averse to enterprises in which they foresee difficulties.

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Herein is the evil of ignorance, that he who is neither good nor wise is nevertheless satisfied with himself: he had no desire for that of which he feels no want.

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Words are things. You must be careful, careful about calling people out of their names, using racial pejoratives and sexual pejoratives and all that ignorance. Don’t do that. Some day we’ll be able to measure the power of words. I think they are things. They get on the walls. They get in your wallpaper. They get in your rugs, in your upholstery, and your clothes, and finally in to you.

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Let no-one ignorant of geometry enter. Said to have been inscribed above the door of Plato's Academy.

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We are growing up. We are growing up! Out of the idiocies - the ignorances of racism and sexism and ageism and all those ignorances.

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There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this.

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Ignorance, arrogance, and racism have bloomed as Superior Knowledge in all too many universities.

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Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.

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It is only out of ignorance that people are cruel, because they really don't think it will come back.

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God is represented as infinite, eternal, incomprehensible; he is contained under every predicate in non that the logic of ignorance could fabricate.

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So long as the millions live in hunger and ignorance, I hold every man a traitor who, having been educated at their expense, pays not the least heed to them.

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Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

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Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge, but passes into it through an intermediate state of obscurity, even as night into day through twilight.

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Nothing is so ignorant as a man's left hand, except a lady's watch.

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Of all the frictional resistances, the one that most retards human movement is ignorance, what Buddha called 'the greatest evil in the world.' The friction which results from ignorance ... can be reduced only by the spread of knowledge and the unification of the heterogeneous elements of humanity. No effort could be better spent.

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It is the inefficiency and sham of ... our schools ... that save us from being dashed on the rocks of false doctrine instead of drifting down the midstream of mere ignorance.

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Better to be unborn than untaught, for ignorance is the root of all misfortune.

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Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge.

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