Quotes about ignorance
ignorance perception age
Tis well for old age that it is always accompanied with want of perception, ignorance, and a facility of being deceived. For should we see how we are used and would not acquiesce, what would become of us? Michel de Montaigne
ignorance rivers sea
He that had never seen a river, imagined the first he met with to be the sea.
ignorance men sufficient
A learned man is not learned in all things; but a sufficient man is sufficient throughout, even to ignorance itself.
ignorance men quality
The plague of man is the opinion of knowledge. That is why ignorance is so recommended by our religion as a quality suitable to belief and obedience.
ignorance simplicity mind
Perhaps it is not without reason that we attribute facility in belief and conviction to simplicity and ignorance; for it seems to me I once learned that belief was sort of an impression made on our mind, and that the softer it is the less resistant t.
ignorance men pillow
Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
ignorance
Whoever will be cured of ignorance, let him confess it.
ignorance imagine judgment
Whoever will imagine a perpetual confession of ignorance, a judgment without leaning or inclination, on any occasion whatever, hasa conception of Pyrrhonism.
ignorance miracle agnostic
Miracles arise from our ignorance of nature, not from nature itself.
ignorance america patterns
We took advantage of [the Indians'] ignorance and inexperience to incline them the more easily toward treachery, lewdness, avarice, and every sort of inhumanity and cruelty, after the example and pattern of our ways.
ignorance long ignorant
What am I to choose? "Choose what you please, as long as you choose." There you have a foolish answer, which seems to be the outcome, however, of all Dogmatism, which will not allow us to be ignorant of that which we are ignorant.
ignorance agency criticism
Most criticism of advertising is written in ignorance of what actually happens inside these agencies. Michael Schudson
ignorance honor study
If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could to-day. Mark Twain
ignorance world bliss
If ignorance is bliss, why isn't the world happier?
ignorance race evil
It is in vain that we would circumscribe the power of one half of our race, and that half by far the most important and influential. If they exert it not for good, they will for evil; if they advance not knowledge, they will perpetuate ignorance. Let women stand where they may in the scale of improvement, their position decides that of the race. Frances Wright
ignorance blue giving
One of those flash epiphanies of travel, the realization that worlds you'd love vibrantly exist outside your ignorance of them. The vitality of many lives you know nothing about. The breeze lifting a blue curtain in a doorway billows just the same whether you are lucky enough to observe it or not. Travel gives such jolts. I could live in this town, so how is it that I've never been here before today? Frances Mayes
ignorance rights age
The foundation of our Empire was not laid in the gloomy age of Ignorance and Superstition, but at an Epoch when the rights of mankind were better understood and more clearly defined, than at any former period. George Washington
ignorance science facts
Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts. George Santayana
ignorance animal expression
The whole machinery of our intelligence, our general ideas and laws, fixed and external objects, principles, persons, and gods, are so many symbolic, algebraic expressions. They stand for experience; experience which we are incapable of retaining and surveying in its multitudinous immediacy. We should flounder hopelessly, like the animals, did we not keep ourselves afloat and direct our course by these intellectual devices. Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of fact.
ignorance two political
The two pillars of 'political correctness' are, a) willful ignorance, and b) a steadfast refusal to face the truth. George MacDonald Fraser
ignorance expression two
There are only two energies at the core of the human experience: love and fear. Love grants freedom, fear takes it away. Love invites full expression, fear punishes it. Love invites you, always, to break the bonds of ignorance. Neale Donald Walsch
ignorance slavery
Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery Miles Davis
ignorance men responsible
A man is responsible for his ignorance. Milan Kundera
ignorance law sophisticated
According to a charming law of nature which is evident even in the most sophisticated societies, we live in complete ignorance of whatever we love. Marcel Proust
ignorance self prejudice
Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of mankind. Joseph Addison
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.
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