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

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It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.

Charles Darwin

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It is so easy to hide our ignorance under such expressions as the plan of creation or unity of design, etc., and to think that we give an explanation when we only restate a fact.

Charles Darwin

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The true conquests, the only ones that cause no regret, are those made over ignorance.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results.

Warren Buffett

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I want nothing to do with any religion concerned with keeping the masses satisfied to live in hunger, filth, and ignorance.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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