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> [Losing our ignorance can be dangerous because our ignorance is a shield.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-simmons/losing-our-ignorance-can-be-dangerous-because-our-ignorance-is-a/)

[Dan Simmons](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-simmons/)

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> [Ignorance is a dangerous and spiritual poison, which all men ought warily to shun.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pope-gregory-i/ignorance-is-a-dangerous-and-spiritual-poison-which-all-men-ought/)

[Pope Gregory I](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pope-gregory-i/)

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> [“Knowledge is a beautiful servant; ignorance is a dangerous master.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matshona-dhliwayo/knowledge-is-a-beautiful-servant-ignorance-is-a-dangerous-master/)

[Matshona Dhliwayo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matshona-dhliwayo/)

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> [Ignorance is not too dangerous. If you combine it with power, then this is a toxic mix.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yuval-noah-harari/ignorance-is-not-too-dangerous-if-you-combine-it-with-power-then-this/)

[Yuval Noah Harari](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yuval-noah-harari/)

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> [It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-russell-lowell/it-is-not-the-insurrections-of-ignorance-that-are-dangerous-but-the/)

[James Russell Lowell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-russell-lowell/)

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> [There's nothing as safe as ignorance or as dangerous.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rex-stout/there-s-nothing-as-safe-as-ignorance-or-as-dangerous/)

[Rex Stout](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rex-stout/)

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> [An ignorant person is, by the very fact of his or her ignorance, a very dangerous person.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hendrik-willem-van-loon/an-ignorant-person-is-by-the-very-fact-of-his-or-her-ignorance-a-very/)

[Hendrik Willem van Loon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hendrik-willem-van-loon/)

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> ['Push back' is the word; that's what we gotta do against ignorance. I see so much of it, and it's dangerous.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fantastic-negrito/push-back-is-the-word-that-s-what-we-gotta-do-against-ignorance-i-see/)

[Fantastic Negrito](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fantastic-negrito/)

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> [“Everybody gets mean stuff on the Internet, Mom. You shouldn’t take it so seriously. Just ignore them. They’ll go away.” That, I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rachel-caine/everybody-gets-mean-stuff-on-the-internet-mom-you-shouldn-t-take-it/)

[Rachel Caine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rachel-caine/)

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