"Ignorance is the mother of presumption" — Marie de Gournay

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• To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. — Isaac Asimov
• If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them. — Isaac Asimov
• When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that… — Isaac Asimov
• Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of… — Isaac Asimov
• Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning… — Isaac Asimov
• Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. — Francis of Assisi
• Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up. — Mary Astell
• India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never… — Sri Aurobindo
• Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which… — Teresa of Avila
• If I should say anything that is not in conformity with what is held by the Holy Roman Catholic Church,… — Teresa of Avila
• The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the… — Richard Bach
• There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the… — Lord Acton

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