Quotes about ignorance
ignorance knowing transformed
[W]e must come into a transformed knowing, an unknowing which comes not from ignorance but from knowledge.
ignorance men evil
God's plan' is often a front for men's plans and a cover for inadequacy, ignorance, and evil. Mary Daly
ignorance three degrees
There are three degrees of comparison: stupido, stupidissimo, and tenore. Pietro Mascagni
ignorance thinking people
Mental illnesses are so frightening and there's so much ignorance about them that I think it comforts people to think, 'Oh, well, it happens to these people because they deserve it.'
ignorance alchemist world
I'm like everyone else—I see the world in terms of what I would like to see happen, not what actually does. Paulo Coelho
ignorance investing buying
The worst thing you can do is invest in companies you know nothing about. Unfortunately, buying stocks on ignorance is still a popular American pastime. Peter Lynch
ignorance mountain safe
Our ignorance allowed us to live, as you are in the mountains, and your rope is frayed and about to break, but you don't know it and feel safe. Primo Levi
ignorance wildlife world
Wildlife of the world is disappearing... simply because of a general and widespread ignorance and neglect Prince Philip
ignorance fate men
Humanity is our common lot. All men are made of the same clay. There is no difference, at least here on Earth, in the fate assigned to us. We come of the same void, inhabit the same flesh, are dissolved in the same ashes. But ignorance infecting the human substance turns it black, and that incurable blackness, gaining possession of the soul, becomes Evil. Victor Hugo
ignorance ends
Freedom begins where it ends ignorance.
ignorance passion evil
She loved with so much passion as she loved with ignorance. She did not know whether it were good or evil, beneficent or dangerous, necessary or accidental, eternal or transitory, permitted or prohibited: she loved.
ignorance duplicity selfishness
Those who blamed aggression formed Amity.’… ‘Those who blamed ignorance became the Erudite.’… ‘Those who blamed duplicity created Candor.’… ‘Those who blamed selfishness made Abnegation.’… ‘And those who blamed cowardice were the Dauntless. Veronica Roth
ignorance fishing skills
Instead of our drab slogging forth and back to the fishing boats, there's reason to live! We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill. We can learn to be free! we can learn to fly! Richard Bach
ignorance safety
To learn anything, you must put aside the safety of your ignorance.
ignorance skills flying
We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill.
ignorance pride mixtures
Ignorance and power and pride are a deadly mixture, you know. Robert Fulghum
ignorance decision made
All decisions are made on insufficient evidence. Rita Mae Brown
ignorance army males
Armies are dependent on youthful male ignorance.
ignorance thinking process
I really think that living is the process of going from complete certainty to complete ignorance. Richard Dreyfuss
ignorance discovery errors
For I found myself embarrassed with so many doubts and errors that it seemed to me that the effort to instruct myself had no effect other than th eincreasing discovery of my own ignorance Rene Descartes
ignorance religion atheism
Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved. Thucydides
ignorance light history
How strangely is antiquity treated! To answer some purposes it is spoken of as the times of darkness and ignorance, and to answer others, it is put for the light of the world. Thomas Paine
ignorance men ignorant
Ignorance is of a peculiar nature; once dispelled, it is impossible to reestablish it. It is not originally a thing of itself, but is only the absence of knowledge; and though man may be kept ignorant, he cannot be made ignorant.
ignorance crime duty
Where knowledge is a duty, ignorance is a crime.
ignorance dark boys
I remember, I remember The fir-trees dark and high; I used to think their slender tops Were close against the sky; It was a childish ignorance, But now 't is little joy To know I'm farther off from heaven Than when I was a boy. Thomas Hood
ignorance boys joy
It was a childish ignorance, But now 'tis little joy To know I'm further off from heaven Than when I was a boy.
ignorance twenties finals
Each such answer to the great question, invariably asserted by the followers of its propounder, if not by himself, to be complete and final, remains in high authority and esteem, it may be for one century, or it may be for twenty: but, as invariably, Time proves each reply to have been a mere approximation to the truth tolerable chiefly on account of the ignorance of those by whom it was accepted, and wholly intolerable when tested by the larger knowledge of their successors. Thomas Huxley
ignorance clouds shining
The spirit is smothered, as it were, by ignorance, but so soon as ignorance is destroyed, spirit shine forth, like the sun when released from clouds. Thomas Sankara
ignorance people enemy
The enemies of a people are those who keep them in ignorance.
ignorance talking people
Of all ignorance, the ignorance of the educated is the most dangerous. Not only are educated people likely to have more influence, they are the last people to suspect that they don't know what they are talking about when they go outside their narrow fields. Thomas Sowell
ignorance stills
Credentialed ignorance is still ignorance.
ignorance government law
People who know nothing about advertising, nothing about pharmaceuticals, and nothing about economics have been loudly proclaiming that the drug companies spend too much on advertising - and demanding that the government pass laws based on their ignorance.
ignorance college worry
In a democracy, we have always had to worry about the ignorance of the uneducated. Today we have to worry about the ignorance of people with college degrees.