Quotes about ignorance
ignorance england providence
Oh, the ignorance of us upon whom Providence did not sufficiently smile to permit us to be born in New England. Horace Porter
ignorance eye two
Two large prominent eyes that rolled about to no purpose (for he was utterly short-sighted) a wide mouth, thick lips and inflated visage, gave him the air of a blind trumpeter. A deep untuneable voice which, instead of modulating, he enforced with unnecsessary pomp, a total neglect of his person, and ignorance of every civil attention, disgusted all who judge by appearance. Horace Walpole
ignorance discovery ideas
Nothing has shown more fully the prodigious ignorance of human ideas and their littleness, than the discovery of [Sir William] Herschell, that what used to be called the Milky Way is a portion of perhaps an infinite multitude of worlds!
ignorance littles
Hidden knowledge differs little from ignorance. Horace
ignorance soul ignorant
Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge. Horace Mann
ignorance men ignorant
But let a man know that there are things to be known, of which he is ignorant, and it is so much carved out of his domain of universal knowledge.
ignorance
There is nothing so costly as ignorance.
ignorance entering world
On entering this world our starting-point is ignorance. None, however, but idiots remain there.
ignorance broken silence
Ignorance has been well represented under the similitude of a dungeon, where, though it is full of life, yet darkness and silence reign. But in society the bars and locks have been broken; the dungeon itself is demolished; the prisoners are out; they are in the midst of us. We have no security but to teach and renovate them.
ignorance salt heard
Who ne'er knew salt, or heard the billows roar. Homer
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.
ignorance fighting justice
When you're fighting for social justice, one of my biggest pet peeves is speaking out of ignorance. Eva Longoria
ignorance doctors giving
What clinical lectures I will give in heaven, demonstrating the ignorance of doctors! Israel Zangwill
ignorance joy sorrow
And this is the way a novel gets written, in ignorance, fear, sorrow, madness, and a kind of psychotic happiness as an incubator for the wonders being born. Jack Kerouac
ignorance names principles
Comedy itself is based upon very old principles of which I can readily name seven. They are, in short: the joke, exaggeration, ridicule, ignorance, surprise, the pun, and finally, the comic situation. Jack Benny
ignorance pride knowing
Pride comes from not knowing yourself and the world. The older you grow, and the more you see, the less reason you will find for being proud. Ignorance and inexperience are the pedestal of pride; once the pedestal is removed - pride will soon come down. J. C. Ryle
ignorance stupidity acquaintance
Acquaint yourself with your own ignorance. Isaac Watts
ignorance voice white
Women of color have no call to trust white women until white women take a gander at the world around them, investigate, learn and annihilate ignorance founded in being white in a society where the perspective and voice presented to the general public is white. Inga Muscio
ignorance dynamics violence
Without honoring Whores, we cannot truly understand and transcend the dynamics of violence, destruction and ignorance fostered in our cuntfearing society.
ignorance ignorant sometimes
Sometimes presenting the most ignorant point of view can be the best way to satirize the issue and highlight that ignorance. Glenn Howerton
ignorance long criticism
After long experience of politics, I have never found that there is any inhibition caused by ignorance as regards criticism. Harold MacMillan
ignorance criticism found
I have never found criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
ignorance church empires
Today, on our own turf, we face pagan ignorance about God every bit as deep as that which the early church faced in the Roman Empire. J. I. Packer
ignorance use shows
What the use of having ignorance if you can't show it? Lou Costello
ignorance virtue eternity
Shall ignorance of good and ill Dare to direct the eternal will? Seek virtue, and of that possest, To Providence resign the rest. John Gay
ignorance writing reality
The absurdly neurotic role you and the rest of your kind have always attributed to me Erato, the Goddess Muse of Erotic Poetry bears no relation at all to reality. As a matter of fact, I was trained as a clinical psychologist. Who simply happens to have specialized in the mental illness that you, in your ignorance, call literature. John Fowles
ignorance privilege cost
The privileges of knowledge have to be bought at the cost of the consolations of ignorance.
ignorance survival-skills skills
Elective ignorance was a great survival skill, perhaps the greatest. Jonathan Franzen