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IGNORANCE: There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German poet, dramatist, novelist, and philosopher, 1749-1832)
IGNORANCE: Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known. (Michel de Montaigne, French philosopher and essayist, 1533-1592)
IGNORANCE: Ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have. (James Baldwin, U.S. novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic, focused on racial, sexual, and class distinctions, 1924-1987)
IGNORANCE: I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. (Thomas Carlyle, Scottish philosopher, satirical essayist, historian, and mathematician, 1795-1881)
IGNORANCE: He that knows little, often repeats it. (Thomas Fuller, English churchman, historian, and prolific writer, 1608-1661)
IGNORANCE: The empty vessel giveth a greater sound than the full barrel. (John Lyly, English playwright, poet, dramatist, and courtier, 1554-1606)
IGNORANCE: There is nothing more frightening than ignorance in action. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German poet, dramatist, novelist, and philosopher, 1749-1832)
IGNORANCE: Aerodynamically, the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway. (Mary Kay Ash, U.S. businesswoman and founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics, 1918-2001)
IGNORANCE: The greatest wisdom often consists in ignorance. (Baltasar Gracian, Spanish Jesuit and baroque prose writer and philosopher, 1601-1658)
IGNORANCE: The trouble ain't that people are ignorant. It's that they know so much that ain't so. (Josh Billings, U.S. columnist and humorist, 1818-1885)
IGNORANCE: Every true genius is bound to be naive. (J.C.F. von Schiller, German poet, philosopher, physician, historian, and playwright, 1864-1937)
IGNORANCE: Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing. (Werner Von Braun, German- American aerospace engineer and space architect, 1912-1977)