Quotes about ignorance
ignorance animal reptiles
The lower animals are our brethren. I include among them the lion and the tiger. We do not know how to live with these carnivorous beasts and poisonous reptiles because of our ignorance. Mahatma Gandhi
ignorance space stupidity
There is no limit to stupidity. - Space itself is said to be bounded by its own curvature, but stupidity continues beyond infinity. Gene Wolfe
ignorance people coward
Passionate people invariably deny their anger, and cowards often boast their ignorance of fear. Napoleon Bonaparte
ignorance equal careful
Ignorance sheer ignorance. There is no confidence to equal it. It's only when you know something about a profession that you are timid or careful. Orson Welles
ignorance science topography
Science is the topography of ignorance. Oliver Wendell Holmes
ignorance knowledge mean
Science ... in other words, knowledge-is not the enemy of religion; for, if so, then religion would mean ignorance. But it is often the antagonist of school-divinity. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
ignorance science space
Science is the topography of ignorance. From a few elevated points we triangulate vast spaces, inclosing infinite unknown details. We cast the lead, and draw up a little sand from abysses we may never reach with our dredges.
ignorance quails protect
Ignorance Protects itself, And protected, Ignorance grows. Octavia Butler
ignorance blind quails
Beware: Ignorance Protects itself. Ignorance Promotes suspicion. Suspicion Engenders fear. Fear quails, Irrational and blind, Or fear looms, Defiant and closed. Blind, closed, Suspicious, afraid, Ignorance Protects itself, And protected, Ignorance grows.
ignorance like-you far-away
Is everyone who lives in Ignorance like you?" asked Milo. "Much worse," he said longingly. "But I don't live here. I'm from a place very far away called Context. Norton Juster
ignorance knowledge swimming
You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and not get wet.
ignorance opportunity progress
There is so much more information about the scientific world than there was a generation ago that we have all increased our opportunities for ignorance. There are more things not to know. ... The machinery that we deal with is so much more complex that it is possible to become dysfunctional at a much higher level of performance. Ellen Goodman
ignorance doctors broken
The majority of the diseases which the human family have been and still are suffering under, they have created by ignorance of their own organic health, and work perseveringly to tear themselves to pieces, and when broken down and debilitated in body and mind, send for the doctor and drug themselves to death. Ellen G. White
ignorance character perfection
A life in Christ is a life of restfulness. There may be no ecstasy of feeling, but there should be an abiding peaceful trust. Your hope is not in yourself; it is in Christ. Your weakness is united to His strength, your ignorance to His wisdom, your frailty to His enduring might....Let the mind dwell upon His love, upon the beauty, the perfection of His character..
ignorance years survival
What we eat has changed more in the last 40 years than in the previous 40,000. The survival of the current food system depends upon widespread ignorance of how it really operates. Eric Schlosser
ignorance names giving
Chance ... must be something more than the name we give to our ignorance. Henri Poincare
ignorance men ignorant
And some men are as ignorant of what they do when awake as they are forgetful of what they do when asleep. Heraclitus
ignorance
It is better to conceal ignorance than to expose it.
ignorance monsters womb
Ignorance is the womb of monsters. Henry Ward Beecher
ignorance men class
There are three classes of men; the retrograde, the stationary and the progressive. Johann Kaspar Lavater
ignorance heart desire
In happy ignorance, I sighed for a world I did not know, where I hoped to find every pleasure and enjoyment which my heart could desire; and now, on my return from that wide world... how many disappointed hopes and unsuccessful plans have I brought back! Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
ignorance als active
There is nothing more frightful than an active ignorance. [Ger., Es ist nichts schrecklicher als eine thatige Unwissenheit.]
ignorance ideas found
When an idea is wanting, a word can always be found to take its place.
ignorance fool poor
And here, poor fool, with all my lore I stand no wiser than before.
ignorance errors faults
We rather confess our moral errors, faults, and crimes than our ignorance.
ignorance ignorant statistics
Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.
ignorance justice social-justice
Nothing is worse than active ignorance.
ignorance mean earth
There are, however, some potentates I would kill by any and all means at my disposal. They are Ignorance, Superstition, and Bigotry — the most sinister and tyrannical rulers on earth. Emma Goldman
ignorance men primitive-man
The conception of gods originated in fear and curiosity. Primitive man, unable to understand the phenomena of nature, and harassed by them, saw in every terrifying manifestation some sinister force expressly directed against him; and as ignorance and fear are the parents of all superstition, the troubled fancy of primitive man wove the God idea.
ignorance humanity atheism
The worker who knows the cause of his misery, who understands the make-up of our iniquitous social and industrial system can do more for himself and his kind than Christ and the followers of Christ have ever done for humanity; certainly more than meek patience, ignorance, and submission have done.
ignorance mean men
No revolution can ever succeed as a factor of liberation unless the MEANS used to further it be identical in spirit and tendency with the PURPOSES to be achieved. Revolution is the negation of the existing, a violent protest against man's inhumanity to man with all the thousand and one slaveries it involves. It is the destroyer of dominant values upon which a complex system of injustice, oppression, and wrong has been built up by ignorance and brutality. It is the herald of NEW VALUES, ushering in a transformation of the basic relations of man to man, and of man to society.
ignorance reality men
The State has no more existence than gods and devils have. They are equally the reflex and creation of man, for man, the individual, is the only reality. The State is but the shadow of man, the shadow of his opaqueness, of his ignorance and fear.
ignorance writing long
There's a lot of ignorance about how long it takes to write a novel. There's a lot of ignorance about how long a novel is in your head before you start to write it. John Irving