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Against stupidity; God Himself is helpless.
-Yiddish Proverb
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A man profits more by the sight of an idiot than by the orations of the learned.
-Arabic Proverb
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Hanlon's Razor:
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
-Anon.
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Ignorance doesn't kill you, but it makes you sweat a lot.
-Proverb
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Better to ask a question than to remain ignorant.
-Proverb
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What you don't know can't hurt you .
-Proverb
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You must not enthrone ignorance just because there is much of it.
-Proverb
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Stupidity is a force unto itself.
-Proverb
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There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.
-Lord (John Emerich Edward Dalberg) Acton
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In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that he did not also limit his stupidity.
-Konrad Adenauer
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To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
-Amos Bronson Alcott
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It is only out of ignorance that people are cruel, because they really don
-Maya Angelou
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I don't want anything I don't deserve, but if they offer me more money, I'm not stupid.
-Antonio Banderas
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Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat.
-Ernest Bevin
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The sage awakes to light in the night of all creatures. That which the world calls day is the night of ignorance to the wise.
-Bhagavad Gita
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Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How did it become so easy?
-Allan Bloom
The Closing of the American Mind, introduction, 1987
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If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
-Derek Bok
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It is against stupidity in every shape and form that we have to wage our eternal battle. But how can we wonder at the want of sense on the part of those who have had no advantages, when we see such plentiful absence of that commodity on the part of those who have had all the advantages?
-William Booth
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It costs to be stupid. The stupider you are, the more it costs.
-Sherrill Brown
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Ignorance is not innocence, but sin.
-Robert Browning
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The Cardinal is at his wit's end -- it is true that he had not far to go.
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
-Thomas Carlyle
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To be clever enough to get all the money, one must be stupid enough to want it.
-G. K. Chesterton
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Prudent dullness marked him for a mayor.
-Charles Churchill
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I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know.
-Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Books about Ignorance & Stupidity
