Love Quotes and Sayings

Will start my list of Ignorance Quotes with this famous saying by Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”

“Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.”
~Alfred North Whitehead

“A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.”
~Thomas Paine

“A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance.”
~Henry David Thoreau, how true!!

“In extraordinary events ignorance of their causes produces astonishment. ”
~Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)

“It was a childish ignorance, But now ’tis little joy To know I’m further off from heaven Than when I was a boy.”
~Thomas Hood

“You can be sincere and still be stupid.”
~Charles F. Kettering

“The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance — it is the illusion of knowledge.”
~Daniel Boorstin

“If ignorance is indeed bliss, it is a very low grade of the article.”
~Tehyi Hsieh

“Blessed is the man who, having nothing to stay, abstains from giving us worthy evidence of the fact.”
~George Eliot

“Before we work on artificial intelligence why don’t we do something about natural stupidity? ”
~Steve Polyak

“To be ignorant of one’s ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.”
~Amos Bronson Alcott

“For ‘ignorance is the mother of devotion,’ as all the world knows.”
“Robert Burton

“Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.”
~Albert Einstein

“Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.”
~George Eliot

“If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it, at any rate, brag.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Through ignorance of what is good and what is bad, the life of men is greatly perplexed.
~Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)

“Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.”
~Henry B. Adams

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5. Charity Quotes

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