Quotes about ignorance
ignorance knowing justice
The realization of ignorance is the first act of knowing. Jean Toomer
ignorance envy gossip
Envy comes from people's ignorance of, or lack of belief in, their own gifts. Jean Vanier
ignorance values
Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value. Jean de La Fontaine
ignorance careers worry
My whole career can be summed up with 'Ignorance is bliss.' When you do not know better, you do not really worry about failing. Jeff Foxworthy
ignorance self enlightenment
There are about 15 million Muslims in the EU. They face ignorance, insult and even persecution. They cannot be wished away. To impose Enlightenment freedoms is self-defeating. Anyway, the Muslims have their own enlightenment. James Buchan
ignorance years battle
I admitted, that the world had existed millions of years. I am astonished at the ignorance of the masses on these subjects. Hugh Miller has it right when he says that 'the battle of evidences must now be fought on the field of the natural sciences.' James A. Garfield
ignorance dark disease-and-death
Statistics has been the handmaid of science, and has poured a flood of light upon the dark questions of famine and pestilence, ignorance and crime, disease and death.
ignorance character people
Now more than ever the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless, and corrupt, it is because the people tolerate ignorance, recklessness, and corruption.
ignorance fire imagination
No one knows very much about the life of another. This ignorance becomes vivid, if you love another. Love sets the imagination on fire, and, also, eventually, chars the imagination into a harder element: imagination cannot match love, cannot plunge so deep, or range so wide. James A. Baldwin
ignorance justice enemy
It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
ignorance bliss ignorance-is-bliss
Somebody else's ignorance is bliss. Jack Vance
ignorance mind trying
I try to hold both history and wilderness in mind, that my poems may the true measure of things and stand against the unbalance and ignorance of our times. Gary Snyder
ignorance animal solitude
As a poet I hold the most archaic values on earth . . . the fertility of the soil, the magic of animals, the power-vision in solitude, the terrifying initiation and rebirth, the love and ecstasy of the dance, the common work of the tribe. I try to hold both history and the wilderness in mind, that my poems may approach the true measure of things and stand against the unbalance and ignorance of our times.
ignorance men ignorant
We cannot but be astonished at the ease with which men resign themselves to ignorance about what is most important for them to know; and we may be certain that they are determined to remain invincibly ignorant if they once come to consider it as axiomatic that there are no absolute principles. Frederic Bastiat
ignorance healing stupidity
A cure by regression is homeopathic, like healing the damage done by ministers and ignorance with stupidity and Jesuits. Franz Grillparzer
ignorance appreciate fickle
It was clear to me that it wouldn't matter what I did - they would never truly appreciate me or learn what I had to offer. They were far beyond fickle - they were insensible, like kittens,predatory little things, distracted by the first bit of string or shiny bauble that rolled across the floor, and nothing I could ever say or do could possibly make any kind of dent in their willful ignorance. Jeff Lindsay
ignorance growing illusion
It is the illusion of knowledge, not ignorance, that keeps one from growing. Jerry Uelsmann
ignorance stupidity arguing
You can't argue with stupidity. Jermaine Jackson
ignorance humility people
It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it; and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it not. Jeremy Taylor
ignorance proud be-proud
To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.
ignorance bliss said
Whoever said ignorance was bliss was shortsighted. Jeaniene Frost
ignorance names warning
I thought you'd gotten over your whoring when you left him, Catherine, but it seems you only postponed it." Bones' face turned to stone, and he answered her even before I could snap out an indignant response. "Don't you ever speak to her that way again." There was pure warning in the whip of his words. "You can call me any name you like and more, but I will not stand by while you slander her out of your own ignorance.
ignorance reality errors
Be the best. No negativity. No weakness. No acquiescence to fear or disaster. No errors of ignorance. No evasion to reality Jeff Buckley
ignorance hands circles
Absurd, irreducible; nothing — not even a profound and secret delirium of nature — could explain it. Obviously I did not know everything, I had not seen the seeds sprout, or the tree grow. But faced with this great wrinkled paw, neither ignorance nor knowledge was important: the world of explanations and reasons is not the world of existence. A circle is not absurd, it is clearly explained by the rotation of a straight segment around one of its extremities. But neither does a circle exist. This root, on the other hand, existed in such a way that I could not explain it. Jean-Paul Sartre
ignorance tree lost
A tree which has lost its head will never recover it again, and will survive only as a monument of the ignorance and folly of its Tormentor. George William Curtis
ignorance november grounded
Until as recently as November of 1966, I had complete faith in the Warren Report. Of course, my faith in the Report was grounded in ignorance, since I had never read it. Jim Garrison
ignorance rights dollars
If ignorance goes to forty dollars a barrel, I want drilling rights to George Bush's head. Jim Hightower
ignorance sometimes bliss
Ignorance, as they say, is usually fatal, but sometimes it can be bliss. Eoin Colfer
ignorance afraid-of-change
Ignorance is always afraid of change. Jawaharlal Nehru
ignorance prejudice tradition
Prejudice is a product of ignorance that hides behind barriers of tradition. Jasper Fforde
ignorance science two
There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance. Hippocrates
ignorance reality names
In the form of the oeuvre, the actual circumstances are placed in another dimension where the given reality shows itself as that which it is. Thus it tells the truth about itself; its language ceases to be that of deception, ignorance, and submission. Fiction calls the facts by their name and their reign collapses; fiction subverts everyday experience and shows it to be mutilated and false. Herbert Marcuse
ignorance character men
Reason ... contradicts the established order of men and things on behalf of existing societal forces that reveal the irrational character of this order for "rational" is a mode of thought and action which is geared to reduce ignorance, destruction, brutality, and oppression.