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If ignorant both of your enemy and yourself, you are certain to be in peril.
- Sun Tzu

Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!
- Leonardo da Vinci

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.
- Maya Angelou

Children’s talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.
- Maya Angelou

The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.
- Khalil Gibran

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
- Charles Darwin

To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.
- Mark Twain

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.
- Epictetus