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Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Nothing

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.

Paul Gauguin

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Ignorance

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.

Until as recently as November of 1966, I had complete faith in the Warren Report. Of course, my faith in the Report was grounded in ignorance, since I had never read it.

Jim Garrison

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Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.

I am astonished each time I come to the U.S. by the ignorance of a high percentage of the population, which knows almost nothing about Latin America or about the world. It's quite blind and deaf to anything that may happen outside the frontiers of the U.S.

A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance; but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance.

William Gaddis

Ignorance