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A man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.
Charles Kettering

I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. It is not skeptics or explorers but fanatics and ideologues who menace decency and progress
Daniel J. Boorstin

Nothing is as terrible to see as ignorance in action.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.
H. P. Lovecraft /The Call of Cthulhu/

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.
Terry Pratchett