All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.
Author: Mark Twain
Work: Letter to Mrs Foote, Dec. 2, 1887
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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
Author: Plato
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The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there it is.
Author: Winston Churchill
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Man...is a tame or civilized animal; never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized; but if he be insufficiently or ill- educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures.
Author: Plato
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Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
Author: Oscar Wilde
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The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.
Author: Plato
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Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.
Author: Plato
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Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.
Author: Laurence J. Peter
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The older we grow the greater becomes our wonder at how much ignorance one can contain without bursting one's clothes.
Author: Mark Twain
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Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.
Author: Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
Author: George Bernard Shaw
Work: Major Barbara (1907) act 3
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Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.
Author: Plato
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The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.
Author: John F. Kennedy
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I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Better be ignorant of a matter than half know it.
Author: Publilius Syrus
Work: Maxims
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
Author: Socrates
Work: from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
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Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
Author: George Bernard Shaw
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To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
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You know everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
Author: Will Rogers
Work: New York Times Aug. 31 1924
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It is rash to condemn where you are ignorant.
Author: Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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