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• If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Topics in Inspirational, Politics, Respect, Trust

  Tags in Government, Popularity, Ignorance, Lying

• The word “genius” isn’t applicable in football. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.

  NFL football quarterback and sports analyst

  Joe Theismann

  Topics in Funny, Genius

  Tags in Ignorance

• It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Topics in Education, Inspirational

  Tags in Integrity/Individuality, Solitude, Imitation, Opinion, Ignorance

• The level of ignorance is declining, and the ability to accumulate data and manipulate it for various ends is increasing.

  Bruce Sterling

  Topics in Ability

  Tags in Ignorance

• Ignorance is no excuse, it’s the real thing.

  Irene Peter

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Ignorance, Real

• Why should we, however, in economics, have to plead ignorance of the sort of facts on which, in the case of a physical theory, a scientist would certainly be expected to give precise information?

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Expected, Information, Ignorance

• But what sin is to the moralist and crime to the jurist so to the scientific man is ignorance.

  Frederick Soddy

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Ignorance, Scientific

• On our plane knowledge and ignorance are the immemorial adversaries.

  Frederick Soddy

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Ignorance, Plane

• Scientific men can hardly escape the charge of ignorance with regard to the precise effect of the impact of modern science upon the mode of living of the people and upon their civilisation.

  Frederick Soddy

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Ignorance, Modern

• Ignorance is not innocence but sin.

  Robert Browning

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Ignorance, Innocence, Sin
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  If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you, and you will never learn.

  Ray Bradbury

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Ignorance, Learn

• In the clashes between ignorance and intelligence, ignorance is generally the aggressor.

  Paul Harris

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Ignorance

• Ignorance has always been the weapon of tyrants; enlightenment the salvation of the free.

  Bill Richardson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Ignorance

• There is more stupidity around than hydrogen and it has longer shelf life.

  Frank Zappa

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Ignorance, Stupidity

• The reason there’s so much ignorance is that those who have it are so eager to share it.

  Frank Howard Clark

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Reason, Ignorance

• Ignorance is never out of style. It was in fashion yesterday, it is the rage today and it will set the pace tomorrow.

  Frank Dane

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Fashion, Ignorance

• Ignorance is the mother of all evils.

  Francois Rabelais

  Topics in Mother

  Tags in Ignorance

• Art hath an enemy called Ignorance.

  Ben Jonson

  Topics in Art

  Tags in Ignorance

• A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance.

  Gian Carlo Menotti

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Ignorance, Depth

• Ignorance per se is not nearly as dangerous as ignorance of ignorance.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Ignorance