Benjamin Franklin Quotes About Ignorance
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A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.
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By the word simplicity, is not always meant folly or ignorance; but often, pure and upright Nature, free from artifice, craft or deceitful ornament.
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To get the bad customs of a country changed and new ones, though better, introduced, it is necessary first to remove the prejudices of the people, enlighten their ignorance, and convince them that their interests will be promoted by the proposed changes; and this is not the work of a day.
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To inquisitive minds like yours and mine the reflection that the quantity of human knowledge bears no proportion to the quantity of human ignorance must be in one view rather pleasing, viz., that though we are to live forever we may be continually amused and delighted with learning something new.
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The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.
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The only thing that is more expensive than education is ignorance.
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It is the religion of ignorance that tyranny begins.
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A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the region of ignorance that tyranny begins.” Benjamin Franklin
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He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.
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Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.
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We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
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Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
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Benjamin Franklin
- Born: January 17, 1706
- Died: April 17, 1790
- Occupation: Founding Father of the United States