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Ignorant Quotes by Thomas Paine
- The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind.
- Government ought to be as much open to improvement as anything which appertains to man, instead of which it has been monopolized from age to…
- Men who look upon themselves born to reign, and others to obey, soon grow insolent; selected from the rest of mankind their minds are early…
- It can only be by blinding the understanding of man, and making him believe that government is some wonderful mysterious thing, that excessive revenues are…
- Ignorance is of a peculiar nature; once dispelled, it is impossible to reestablish it. It is not originally a thing of itself, but is only…
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- To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. — Isaac Asimov
- Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly… — Isaac Asimov
- If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already… — Saint Augustine
- Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers. — Marcus Aurelius
- If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus… — Abu Bakr
- Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts. — Henry Adams
- I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence,… — John Adams
- Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch the simple… — John Adams
- The most dangerous people are the ignorant. — Henry Ward Beecher
- The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes. — Henry Ward Beecher
- Quick condemnation of all that is not ours, of views with which we disagree, of ideas that do not attract us, is… — Annie Besant
- The younger Mary J. Blige, I would call her, she was very unaware, ignorant. — Mary J. Blige