Quotes about ignorance
ignorance historical looks
Backward is just not a natural direction for Americans to look - historical ignorance remains a national characteristic. Larry McMurtry
ignorance government gentleman
The gentlemen who wrote the Constitution were as suspicious of efficient government as they were wary of democracy, a "turbulence and a folly" that was associated with the unruly ignorance of an urban mob. Lewis H. Lapham
ignorance circles may
Who can tell whether the parallelogram, which in our ignorance we have defined and drawn, and the whole of whose properties we profess to know, may not be all the while panting for exterior angles, sympathetic with the interior, or sullenly repining at the fact that it cannot be inscribed in a circle? Lewis Carroll
ignorance mean law
The laws of nature are only as immutable as the minds which promote them. Ignorance of the law is 9/10ths of the law. Just because you aren't paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you. Joseph Heller
ignorance complacency doe
Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon, but to our ignorance and complacency coming to an end. Joseph Campbell
ignorance love-is heaven
The world, as we know it, is coming to an end. The world as the center of the universe, the world divided from the heavens, the world bound by horizons in which love is reserved for members of the in-group: that is the world that is passing away. Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon but to the fact that our ignorance and complacency are coming to an end.
ignorance knowledge learning
Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite. Karl Popper
ignorance insecure safe
We know a great deal, but our ignorance is sobering and boundless. With each step forward, with each problem which we solve, we not only discover new and unsolved problems, but we also discover that where we believed that we were standing on firm and safe ground, all things are, in truth, insecure and in a state of flux.
ignorance littles infinite
While differing widely in the various little bits we know, in our infinite ignorance we are all equal.
ignorance knowledge world
The more we learn about the world, and the deeper our learning, the more conscious, specific, and articulate will be our knowledge of what we do not know, our knowledge of our ignorance
ignorance knowledge fate
A knowledge of history as detailed as possible is essential if we are to comprehend the present and be prepared for the future. Fate...is not the blind superstition or helplessness that waits stupidly for what may happen. Fate is unalterable only in the sense that given a cause, a certain result must follow, but no cause is inevitable in itself, and man can shape his world if he does not resign himself to ignorance. Pearl S. Buck
ignorance roots causes
At the root of all the harm we cause is ignorance. Pema Chodron
ignorance thinking sight
I think it's perfectly possible to explain how the universe came about without bringing God into it, but I don't know everything, and there may well be a God somewhere, hiding away. Actually, if he is keeping out of sight, it's because he's ashamed of his followers and all the cruelty and ignorance they're responsible for promoting in his name. If I were him, I'd want nothing to do with them. Philip Pullman
ignorance causes apathy
When an individual fear or apathy would cause us to pass by the unfortunate, then life is of no account.
ignorance history literature
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. Gustave Flaubert
ignorance fighting enemy
To fight an enemy properly, you have to know what they are. Ignorance is defeat. Greg Bear
ignorance office personality
Arrogance, ignorance, and incompetence. Not a pretty cocktail of personality traits in the best of situations. No sirree. Not a pretty cocktail in an office-mate and not a pretty cocktail in a head of state. In fact, in a leader, it's a lethal cocktail. Graydon Carter
ignorance poetic dramatic
There is a certain poetic value, and that a genuine one, in this sense of having missed the full meaning of things. There is beauty, not only in wisdom, but in this dazed and dramatic ignorance. Gilbert K. Chesterton
ignorance i-hate-you boredom
There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
ignorance companion constant
Ignorance and confidence are constant companions John McAfee
ignorance dark skills
The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future. John Maynard Keynes
ignorance foxes blind
It is a blind goose that cometh to the fox's sermon. John Lyly
ignorance empty-vessels sound
The empty vessel giveth a greater sound than the full barrel.
ignorance veils rising
The veil is slowly rising, but as regards innumerable questions we must be content to remain in ignorance. John Lubbock
ignorance use wonder
Though the familiar use of things about us take off our wonder, yet it cures not our ignorance. John Locke
ignorance men knowing
A man may live long, and die at last in ignorance of many truths, which his mind was capable of knowing, and that with certainty.
ignorance knowledge long
Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied words with little or no meaning have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of speculation, that it will not be easy to persuade either those who speak or those who hear them, that they are but the covers of ignorance and hindrance of true knowledge.
ignorance innocence virtue
The innocence which is simply ignorance is not virtue. John Lancaster Spalding
ignorance experts world
When the world is destroyed, it will be destroyed not by its madmen but by the sanity of its experts and the superior ignorance of its bureaucrats. John le Carre
ignorance sacrifice compassion
To sacrifice the principles of manners, which require compassion and respect, and bat people over the head with their ignorance of etiquette rules they cannot be expected to know is both bad manners and poor etiquette. That social climbers and twits have misused etiquette throughout history should not be used as an argument for doing away with it. Judith Martin
ignorance skills ideas
Like language, a code of manners can be used with more or less skill, for laudable or for evil purposes, to express a great variety of ideas and emotions. In itself, it carries no moral value, but ignorance in use of this tool is not a sign of virtue.
ignorance dark zeppelins
I plead total ignorance to Led Zeppelin. I am totally in the dark about them. Karen O
ignorance made
She feared the unknown as we all do, and her ignorance made the unknown infinitely vast. Joseph Conrad