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Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.


Carl Sagan

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WILLIAM GADDIS Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance
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SYDNEY J. HARRIS Ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as well be. And I do not like feeling stupid.
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GAMALIEL BRADFORD Ignorance is the primary source of all misery and vice.
VICTOR COUSIN Ignorance is not bliss -- ignorance is ignorance.
SOURCE UNKNOWN Innocence is the beginning of ignorance. Experience is the end of stupidity.
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DALAI LAMA How many consuming fires can there be in the words: freedom, peace and democracy and how easy they c...
SORIN CERIN Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug, but when it prescribes pills it may happen to do more harm
GEORGE ELIOT By ignorance we mistake, and by mistakes we learn
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CARL SAGAN One glance at (a book) and you hear the voice of another person - perhaps someone dead for thousands...
CARL SAGAN Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
CARL SAGAN The size and age of the Cosmos are beyond ordinary human understanding. Lost somewhere between immen...
CARL SAGAN If I finish a book a week, I will read only a few thousand books in my lifetime, about a tenth of a ...
CARL SAGAN Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered lo...
CARL SAGAN The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence.
CARL SAGAN we make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers
CARL SAGAN We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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