Quotes about ignorance
ignorance two scripture
Unfortunately, 19th-century scientists were just as ready to jump to the conclusion that any guess about nature was an obvious fact, as were 17th-century sectarians to jump to the conclusion that any guess about Scripture was the obvious explanation . . . . and this clumsy collision of two very impatient forms of ignorance was known as the quarrel of Science and Religion. Gilbert K. Chesterton
ignorance years secret
A secret may be sometimes best kept by keeping the secret of its being a secret. It is not many years since a State secret of the greatest importance was printed without being divulged, merely by sending it to the press like any other matter, and trusting to the mechanical habits of the persons employed. They printed it piecemeal in ignorance of what it was about. Henry Taylor
ignorance good-man language
The English love for privacy is proverbial, and has not been exaggerated. A stranger who strikes up a conversation is looked upon with suspicion - unless he happens to be an American, when his ignorance of good manners is indulged. Henry Steele Commager
ignorance yield evil
Misery and ignorance are always the cause of great evils. Misery is easily excited to anger, and ignorance soon yields to perfidious counsels. Joseph Addison
ignorance men thinking
Ignorance is servitude, because as a man thinks, so he is; a man who does not think for himself and allows himself to be guided by the thought of another is like the beast led by a halter. Jose Rizal
ignorance innocence forgotten
Ignorance is learned; innocence is forgotten. Jose Bergamin
ignorance catholic christ
An ignorance of Marx is as frequent among Marxists as an ignorance of Christ is among Catholics.
ignorance space lines
His life, measured in space and time, will take up a mere few lines, which my ignorance will abbreviate further. Jorge Luis Borges
ignorance imagine not-sure
I am not sure of anything, I know nothing . . . can you imagine that I don't even know the date of my own death?
ignorance together panic
Can you define "plan" as "a loose sequence of manifestly inadequate observations and conjectures, held together by panic, indecision, and ignorance"? If so, it was a very good plan. Jonathan Stroud
ignorance giving together
It is very unfair in any writer to employ ignorance and malice together, because it gives his answerer double work. Jonathan Swift
ignorance gunpowder use
The greatest Inventions were produced in Times of Ignorance; as the Use of the Compass, Gunpowder, and Printing; and by the dullest Nation, as the Germans.
ignorance kids childhood
Kids who don't eavesdrop on adult conversations are doomed to a childhood of ignorance. Kelley Armstrong
ignorance annoyed arbitrary
He is annoyed with their lack of interest, their blithe ignorance of the arbitrary genetic lottery that has granted them their privileged lives. Khaled Hosseini
ignorance heart soul
At ebb tide I wrote a line upon the sand, and gave it all my heart and all my soul. At flood tide I returned to read what I had inscribed and found my ignorance upon the shore. Khalil Gibran
ignorance weary offspring
Let ignorance reproduce itself until it is weary of its own offspring.
ignorance animal opportunity
We can't plead ignorance, only indifference. Those alive today are the generations that came to know better. We have the burden and the opportunity of living in the moment when the critique of factory farming broke into the popular consciousness. We are the ones of whom it will be fairly asked, What did you do when you learned the truth about eating animals? Jonathan Safran Foer
ignorance oil america
It is fairly well-known what has been behind that climate change denial in America: vast sums pumped into an ignorance industry by the oil and gas lobbies. Naomi Wolf
ignorance stupidity obedience
Obedience to public authority ought not to be based either on ignorance or stupidity. Napoleon Bonaparte
ignorance fifth
The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance. Lyndon B. Johnson
ignorance roots poverty
Poverty has many roots, but the tap root is ignorance.
ignorance argument behinds
Behind every argument is someone's ignorance. Louis D. Brandeis
ignorance purpose causes
Behind every argument is somebody's ignorance. Rediscover the foundation of truth and the purpose and causes of dispute immediately disappear.
ignorance knowledge kind
Knowledge is not happiness, and science But an exchange of ignorance for that Which is another kind of ignorance. Lord Byron
ignorance knowledge pride
Our conjectures pass upon us for truths; we will know what we do not know, and often, what we cannot know: so mortifying to our pride is the base suspicion of ignorance. Lord Chesterfield
ignorance knowledge people
A seeming ignorance is very often a most necessary part of worldly knowledge. It is, for instance, commonly advisable to seem ignorant of what people offer to tell you; and, when they say, Have you not heard of such a thing? to answer, No, and to let them go on, though you know it already.
ignorance government errors
Absolute power can only be supported by error, ignorance and prejudice.
ignorance ignorant
The most ignorant are the boldest conjecturers.
ignorance fighting weapons
Education is the best weapon through which we can fight poverty, ignorance and terrorism. Malala Yousafzai
ignorance people fool
Ignorance allowed politicians to fool people and bad administrators to be re-elected.
ignorance knowledge law
Knowledge has always been important, of course. The ancient Egyptians did not raise the stones for the pyramids relying on the incantations of their gods. The waters in the irrigation canals of the great Indus Civilisation did not flow according to the laws of ignorance. Knowledge has always been power and wealth. Mahathir Mohamad
ignorance rocks enlightened
The knowledge from an enlightened person breaks on the hard rocks of ignorance. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
ignorance order roots
All problems in life arise from some weakness of mind. All weakness of mind is due to the mind's ignorance of its own essential nature, which is universal and the source of infinite energy and intelligence. ... In order to root out any problem of life it is only necessary to be brought out of ignorance, to be brought to knowledge.