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Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)

Ignorance is the dominion of absurdity. (Quote by - James Anthony Froude)

There is no means by which men so powerfully elude their ignorance, disguise it from themselves and from others as by words (Quote by - Gamaliel Bradford)

One learns by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try. (Quote by - Sophocles)

To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence. (Quote by - Mark Twain)

Ordinary people believe only in the possible. Extraordinary people visualize not what is possible or probable, but rather what is impossible. And by visualizing the impossible, they begin to see it as possible. (Quote by - Cherie Carter-Scott)

Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities. (Quote by - George Eliot )

Nothing in this world can one imagine beforehand, not the least thing. Everything is made up of so many unique particulars that cannot be foreseen. (Quote by - Rainer Maria Rilke)

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance. (Quote by - Socrates)

An ignorance of means may minister To greatness, but an ignorance of aims Make it impossible to be great at all. (Quote by - Elizabeth Barrett Browning)

All I know about humor is that I don't know anything about it. (Quote by - Fred Allen)

It is a blind goose that cometh to the fox's sermon. (Quote by - John Lyly)

All our ignorance brings us closer to death. (Quote by - George Eliot)

Behind every argument is someone's ignorance. (Quote by - Robert Benchley)

All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance. (Quote by - Will Rogers)

Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)

Aerodynamically, the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway. (Quote by - Mary Kay Ash)

You can do one of two things; just shut up, which is something I don't find easy, or learn an awful lot very fast, which is what I tried to do. (Quote by - Jane Fonda)

I learn by going where I have to go. (Quote by - Theodore Roethke)

Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in action. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

Great things are accomplished by those who do not feel the impotence of man. This ... is a precious gift. (Quote by - Paul Valery)

The most violent element in society is ignorance. (Quote by - Emma Goldman)

Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing. (Quote by - Irene Peter)

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