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People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters. (Quote by - Bill Gates)

An impossibility does not disturb us until its accomplishment shows what fools we were. (Quote by - Henry S. Haskins)

For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me. (Quote by - John Dryden)

Ignorance of the law must not prevent the losing attorney from collecting his fee (Quote by - Legal Maxim)

One part of knowledge consists in being ignorant of such things as are not worthy to be known. (Quote by - Crates)

So long as we think dugout canoes are the only possibility-all that is real or can be real-we will never see the ship, we will never feel the free wind blow. (Quote by - Sonia Johnson)

Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house. (Quote by - James Thurber)

Never let your persistence and passion turn into stubbornness and ignorance. (Quote by - Anthony J D'Angelo)

Lack of understanding is a great power. Sometimes it enables men to conquer the world. (Quote by - Anatole France)

When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds. (Quote by - Will Rogers)

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them. (Quote by - Isaac Asimov)

Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished. (Quote by - Jeremy Bentham)

Is it ignorance or apathy? Hey, I don't know and I don't care. (Quote by - Jimmy Buffett)

Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives. (Quote by - Saint Teresa)

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than a sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. (Quote by - Martin Luther King, Jr.)

The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance. (Quote by - Confucius)

Ignorance is not privileged by titular degrees (Quote by - Latin Proverb)

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark. (Quote by - Agnes de Mille)

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the later ignorance. (Quote by - Hippocrates)

The little I know, I owe to my ignorance. (Quote by - Sacha Guitry)

I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance. (Quote by - Adlai Stevenson)

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives. (Quote by - James Madison)

I don't know what I'm doing. I don't know what actors do. (Quote by - Geraldine Page)

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. (Quote by - Galileo)

The trouble ain't that people are ignorant: it's that they know so much that ain't so. (Quote by - Josh Billings)

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