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C. H. (Charles Haddon) Spurgeon

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and consciencious stupidity.

Charles J. C. Lyall

There are four things that hold back human progress. Ignorance, stupidity, committees and accountants.

Aldous Huxley

At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religous or political ideas.

Lytton Strachey

The history of the Victorian Age will never be written we know too much about it. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.

Sankara

The spirit is smothered, as it were, by ignorance, but so soon as ignorance is destroyed, spirit shine forth, like the sun when released from clouds.

Will Rogers

If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out

Unknown

Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity.

Edwin H. Land

Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.

Frank Leahy

Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.

Albert Einstein

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

Jean de la Bruyere

There are only two ways by which to rise in this world, either by one's own industry or by the stupidity of others.

Anon.

Hanlon's RazorNever attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.

Gustave Flaubert

Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.

Vladimir Nabokov

My loathings are simple stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.

Edward Abbey

One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.

Doris Fleeson

It is occasionally possible to charge hell with a bucket of water, but against stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.

Vartan Gregorian

Libraries keep the records on behalf of all humanity. ... the unique and the absurd, the wise and the fragments of stupidity.

Conan Doyle

When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.

Sacha Guitry

The little I know, I owe to my ignorance.

Albert Einstein

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.

Albert Einstein

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

Harry Homes

Ignorance is the mother of fear.

Will Durant

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

Johann von Goethe

Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in action.

Johann von Goethe

Nothing is as terrible to see as ignorance in action.

Louis D. Brandeis

Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.

Mignon McLaughlin

It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.

Jean de La Fontaine

Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.

Benjamin Disraeli

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Baron de la Brede et de Montesquieu

The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.

Sophy Burnham

To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.

Gustave Flaubert

Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.

Adlai E. Stevenson

For my part I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.

Irene Peter

Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing.

Laertius Diogenes

He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge and one only evil, namely, ignorance.

Thomas Carlyle

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

Mark Twain

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence then success is sure.

Confucius

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

Titus Livius

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Confucius

The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it not having it, to confess your ignorance.

Emma Goldman

The most violent element in society is ignorance.

Anthony D'Angelo

Never let your persistence and passion turn into stubbornness and ignorance.

Mark Twain

His ignorance covered the whole earth like a blanket, and there was hardly a hole in it anywhere.

Ambrose Bierce

Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

PRIOR: _To Hon. C. Montague._

From ignorance our comfort flows, The only wretched are the wise.

Baltasar Gracian

Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.

John Selden

Ignorance of the law excuses no man Not that all men know the law, but because 'tis an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to refute him.

Maya Angelou

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

William Safire

Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy I don't know and I don't care.

GRAY: _Ode on Eton College._

Where ignorance is bliss 'Tis folly to be wise.

Stupidity has a certain charm - ignorance does not.

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

Discourtesy does not spring merely from one bad quality, but from several--from foolish vanity, from ignorance of what is due to others, from indolence, from stupidity, from distraction of thought, from contempt of others, from jealousy.

"Blame not on stupidity what is best explained by ignorance." - Heinlein

There is no limit to stupidity. Space itself is said to be bounded by its own curvature, but stupidity continues beyond infinity.

At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity: idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religous or political ideas.

The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the hig

There is no sin except stupidity.

Too bad stupidity isn't painful.

There is no vaccine against stupidity.

Stupidity got us into this mess, why can't it get us out?

As if there were safety in stupidity alone.

Too bad that stupidity isn't painful...

In politics stupidity is not a handicap.

STUPIDITY is NOT a HANDICAP! Park elsewhere!

I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.

I am patient with stupidity, but not with those who are proud of it.

With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.

You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public.

With stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.

Man has made use of his intelligence, he invented stupidity.

Books are hindrances to persisting stupidity.

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.

'Stupidity if left untreated is self-correcting' RAH.

Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity.

General stupidity error reading drive C:

Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.

The two most abundant things in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.

The two most abundant things in the universe are Hydrogren and stupidity.

The two most common elements in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity.

Artificial Intelligence usually beats real stupidity.

Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

There is more stupidity then hydrogen in the universe and it has a longer shelf life.

Brilliance is typically the act of an individual, but incredible stupidity can usually be traced to an organization.

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.

Unlike human beings, computers possess the truly profound stupidity of the inanimate.

My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.

Against stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain. (Mit der Dummheit kaempfen Goetter selbst vergebens)

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.

Strange as it seems, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.

To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we

There is no sin greater than ignorance.

Ignorance = Fear

His ignorance is encyclopedic.

There is no slavery but ignorance.

Bliss *IS* ignorance