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In the clashes between ignorance and intelligence, ignorance is generally the aggressor. -- Paul Harris
It is proper that noble spirits, equipped with truth and enlightened with the Divine intelligence, should arm themselves against dense ignorance by climbing up to the high rock and tower of contemplation. -- Giordano Bruno
The voice of the intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is biased by hate and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance. -- Karl A. Menninger
You may assume infinite ignorance and unlimited intelligence. -- Leo Szilard
Intelligence rules the world, ignorance carries the burden... -- Marcus Garvey
A sign of intelligence is an awareness of one's own ignorance. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
Ignorance is not lack of intelligence, nor knowledge a proof of genius. -- Luc de Clapiers
There is no slavery but ignorance. Liberty is the child of intelligence. -- Robert G. Ingersoll
The union of nature and soul removes the veil of ignorance that covers our intelligence. -- B.K.S. Iyengar
He was ignorant, but a lot of people mistook ignorance for stupidity, and knowingness for intelligence. -- Michael Lewis
It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence. -- James Russell Lowell
Novelty does not require intelligence, but ignorance, which is why the young excel in this branch. -- Anthony Marais
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. -- Saul Bellow
The jury system puts a ban upon intelligence and honesty and a premium upon ignorance, stupidity and perjury. -- Mark Twain
We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill. -- Richard Bach
Silence is the only answer you should give to the fools. Where ignorance speaks, intelligence should not give advices. -- Benito Mussolini
The general plot of life is sometimes shaped by the different ways genuine intelligence combines with equally genuine ignorance. -- Lucy Grealy
Why is it that the choice among churches always seems to be the choice between intelligence on ice and ignorance on fire? -- Diana Butler Bass
Nothing limits intelligence more than ignorance; nothing fosters ignorance more than one's own opinions; nothing strengthens opinions more than refusing to look at reality. -- Sheri S. Tepper
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

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