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Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.

—Samuel Johnson

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The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

—Winston Churchill

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In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance.

—Theodore Dreiser

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Ignoring things didn’t make them go away. It only made it harder to face them when they finally came around.

—A. Meredith Walters in Light in the Shadows

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The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.

—Benjamin Disraeli

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You know everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

—Will Rogers

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I liked things better when I didn't understand them.

—Bill Watterson

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A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

—Benjamin Franklin

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Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.

—Robert J. Sawyer in Calculating God

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Trying to forget really doesn’t work. In fact, it’s pretty much the same as remembering. But I tried to forget anyway, and to ignore the fact that I was remembering you all the time.

—Rebecca Stead in When You Reach Me

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Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.

—Ogden Nash

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Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before... He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.

—Kurt Vonnegut

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The lower animals are our brethren. I include among them the lion and the tiger. We do not know how to live with these carnivorous beasts and poisonous reptiles because of our ignorance. When man learns better, he will learn to befriend even these. Today he does not even know how to befriend a man of a different religion or from a different country.

—Mahatma Gandhi

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The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

—Voltaire

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Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important. Just lie down.

—Natalie Goldberg

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