"Confidence is ignorance. If you're feeling cocky, it's because there's something you don't know."
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Ignorance Quotes
"Living is Easy with Eyes Closed."
"We are generally treated based on how much or little we have, earn, or know—or seem to have, earn, or know."
"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science."
"originality and a feeling of one's own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle."
"The huge problem in our society is the enormous ignorance of the ideas that underlie modern art."
"She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance - a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To come with a well−informed mind is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others, which a sensible person would always wish to avoid. A woman especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can."
"Only ignorance excuses stupidity"
"Always hear others out and remain open-minded; the day you think you know everything is the day you have the most yet to learn."
"There are people who are generic. They make generic responses and they expect generic answers. They live inside a box and they think people who don't fit into their box are weird. But I'll tell you what, generic people are the weird people. They are like genetically-manipulated plants growing inside a laboratory, like indistinguishable faces, like droids. Like ignorance."
"There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action."
"[...] where ignorance is bliss,'Tis folly to be wise."
"Until ignorance, of one’s own Self (the Soul), is removed, illusory attachment (moha) will not go away."
"It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge."
"Just above our terror, the stars painted this storyin perfect silver calligraphy. And our souls, too oftenabused by ignorance, covered our eyes with mercy."
"...Writings can be stolen, or changed, or used for evil purposes. But isn't the risk worth taking? The more people who share knowledge, the greater safeguard for it. Isn't there more danger in ignorance than knowledge?"
"Occasionally he stumbled over the truth, but hastily picked himself up and hurried on as if nothing had happened."
"Education is the light in the darkness of ignorance."
"There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing."
"If the ignorance of nature gave birth to such a variety of gods, the knowledge of this nature is calculated to destroy them."