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I plead total ignorance to Led Zeppelin. I am totally in the dark about them. -- Karen O
The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about. -- Wayne Dyer
Uncertainty and fear and ignorance about immigrants, about people who are different, has a history as old as our Nation. -- Luis Gutierrez
Liberals sit from this lofty perch of pomposity, but they are the champions of ignorance. They don't know what they're talking about. -- Rush Limbaugh
Far and away, the greatest threat to the ocean, and thus to ourselves, is ignorance. But we can do something about that. -- Sylvia Earle
Information can bring you choices and choices bring power - educate yourself about your options and choices. Never remain in the dark of ignorance. -- Joy Page
People talk about revelation, and say it has ceased; but what ignorance it bespeaks, when man knows not the least thing on earth without revelation. -- Elias Hicks
Larry Summers, I think, he had a long history of arrogance and relative ignorance about poor people's culture and working people's culture and so forth. -- Cornel West
At least for me, it takes more knowledge to write fiction than nonfiction. At least about someplace that I begin with a lot of ignorance about. -- William T. Vollmann
In Buddhist teaching, ignorance is considered the fundamental cause of violence - ignorance... about the separation of self and other... about the consequences of our actions. -- Sharon Salzberg
In practice, socialism didn't work. But socialism could never have worked because it is based on false premises about human psychology and society, and gross ignorance of human economy. -- David Horowitz
What I love about the East End is that there's a great perseverance, determination and courage. What I dislike about it is that there is sometimes a celebration of ignorance. -- Eddie Marsan
The average man has a carefully cultivated ignorance about household matters - from what to do with the crumbs to the grocer's telephone number - a sort of cheerful inefficiency which protects him. -- Crystal Eastman
There's a lot of ignorance about how long it takes to write a novel. There's a lot of ignorance about how long a novel is in your head before you start to write it. -- John Irving
How many times do you read about 'the Cinderella story,' the story of the underdog, the story of the ordinary human being, often subjected to cruelty and ignorance and neglect, who somehow triumphs? -- Kenneth Branagh
All comparisons between America's current place in the world and anything legitimately called an empire in the past reveal ignorance and confusion about any reasonable meaning of the concept empire, especially the comparison with the Roman Empire. -- Donald Kagan
One of the big weaknesses of the Conservative Party is not just their ignorance of and lack of effective response to the cost-of-living crisis but a more fundamental error about what makes for success in the 21st century. -- Douglas Alexander
Much of the impotence of American churches is tied to a profound ignorance and apathy about justification. Our people live in a fog of guilt. Or just as bad, they think being a better person is all God requires. -- Kevin DeYoung
If novels and stories are bulletins from the progressive states of ignorance a writer passes through over the years, observations and opinions about horses are all the more so, since horses are more mysterious than life and harder to understand. -- Jane Smiley
There is a profound hypocrisy - and deep historical ignorance - when Europeans complain about the problems posed by the ethnic and religious minorities in their midst, for that is exactly what European colonial rule meant for peoples around the world. -- Martin Jacques
Ignorance is brought about by assumption. -- T. D. Jakes
Our posterity will wonder about our ignorance of things so plain. -- Seneca the Younger
If you think the cost of education is high, think about ignorance. -- Derek Bok
The darkest thing about Africa has always been our ignorance of it. -- George C. Kimble
Often, the greater our ignorance about something, the greater our resistance to change. -- Marc Bekoff
The length of sky is just about the size of my ignorance. Pure and wide. -- Louise Erdrich
To confess ignorance is often wiser than to beat about the bush with a hypothetical diagnosis. -- William Osler
The ultimate ignorance is the rejection of something you know nothing about, yet refuse to investigate. -- Wayne Dyer
Ignorance breeds fear; the more you learn about your subject, the less fear it holds for you. -- Brian Tracy
Since fear is mostly about ignorance, the best part is that it's as temporary as you choose. -- Christine Comaford-Lynch
I was going to talk about Nicholas Parsons' ignorance, but 18 seconds would be a wholly insufficient time. -- Clement Freud
To be curious about that which is not one's concern while still in ignorance of oneself is ridiculous. -- Plato
Though the familiar use of things about us take off our wonder, yet it cures not our ignorance. -- John Locke
Enlightenment is not about becoming divine. Instead it's about becoming more fully human. . . . It is the end of ignorance. -- Surya Das
Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves. -- Carl Sagan
one great irony about ignorance it that one may do wrong things greatly and great things wrongly; knowingly or unknowingly -- Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Actions have consequences. Ignorance about the nature of those actions does not free a person from responsibility for the consequences. (28) -- Stephen Dobyns
My ignorance of science is such that if anyone mentioned copper nitrate I should think he was talking about policemen's overtime. -- Donald Coggan
Being unable to cure death, wretchedness, and ignorance, men have decided, in order to be happy, not to think about such things. -- Blaise Pascal
I envy animals for two things - their ignorance of evil to come, and their ignorance of what is said about them. -- Voltaire
There is natural ignorance and there is artificial ignorance. I should say at the present moment the artificial ignorance is about eighty-five per cent. -- Ezra Pound
The worst thing you can do is invest in companies you know nothing about. Unfortunately, buying stocks on ignorance is still a popular American pastime. -- Peter Lynch
Is political discourse still just shouting opinions about subjective, hot-button issues based on poor understanding and outright ignorance about which agreements can never be reached? -- Jeffrey Rowland
My whole career can be summed up with 'Ignorance is bliss.' When you do not know better, you do not really worry about failing. -- Jeff Foxworthy
One way in which fools succeed where wise men fail is that through ignorance of the danger they sometimes go coolly about a hazardous business. -- Richard Whately
Ignorance sheer ignorance. There is no confidence to equal it. It's only when you know something about a profession that you are timid or careful. -- Orson Welles
I think there's something about being a neophyte that's refreshing and hard to duplicate; it brings about real innovation. Innovation usually comes about through blind ignorance. -- Sylvester Stallone
Remain alert about your blindness, about your fear, about your ignorance, and just your alertness will dispel the whole darkness of blindness, of fear, of ignorance. -- Rajneesh
The key point some Christians miss is that scientific ignorance about the beginning of life, or any of life's processes, is not evidence of a god. -- Guy P. Harrison
Today, on our own turf, we face pagan ignorance about God every bit as deep as that which the early church faced in the Roman Empire. -- J. I. Packer
We have a greater responsibility to act than those who live in ignorance. Once you become knowledgeable, you have an obligation to do something about it. -- Ron Paul
I attribute all my success to ignorance. If you don't ever think about not getting where you want to be, I think it helps you out. -- Billy Bob Thornton
When someone says something dunderheaded to me about the material, it's usually a big neon sign revealing their own damage or ignorance, so my compassion kicks in. -- Lidia Yuknavitch
[How to train your dragon] is beautiful to look at and, again, those values that it contains about relationships, friendships, and bonding in the face of ignorance. -- Gerard Butler
The ability for a person to operate satisfactorily in a thing is dependent on how much he knows about that thing. Ignorance is a major cause of inability. -- Yusuf A. Leinge
In a democracy, we have always had to worry about the ignorance of the uneducated. Today we have to worry about the ignorance of people with college degrees. -- Thomas Sowell
Most books are about aspects of human knowledge - Few people write books about human ignorance, despite the fact that there would be much more to write about -- Piero Scaruffi
Ignorance and arrogance are a lethal combination. Nowhere do we see that more clearly among writers and performers who pontificate as historians when they know nothing about history. -- Victor Davis Hanson
Our ignorance allowed us to live, as you are in the mountains, and your rope is frayed and about to break, but you don't know it and feel safe. -- Primo Levi
Bloom never pissed me off because there are critics out there, and he's one of them, who take their ignorance about popular culture as a badge of intellectual prowess. -- Stephen King
That's through intelligence, not through ignorance, believe me. Because some of the things that they're asking you to do [in the Army] and be politically correct about are ridiculous. -- Donald Trump
In practice, socialism didnt work. But socialism could never have worked because it is based on false premises about human psychology and society, and gross ignorance of human economy. -- David Horowitz

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