Quotes about ignorance
ignorance average people
People who are very aware that they have more knowledge than the average person are often very unaware that they do not have one-tenth of the knowledge of all of the average persons put together. In this situation, for the intelligentsia to impose their notions on ordinary people is essentially to impose ignorance on knowledge. Thomas Sowell
ignorance complexity seems
All that makes earlier times seem simpler is our ignorance of their complexities.
ignorance government people
One of the reasons for conspiracy theories is an assumption that people in high places always know what they are doing. When they do something that makes no sense, devious reasons are imagined by conspiracy theorists, when in fact it may be due to plain old ignorance and incompetence.
ignorance democracy rulership
The purpose of democracy - supplanting old belief in the necessary absoluteness of establish'd dynastic rulership, temporal, ecclesiastical, and scholastic, as furnishing the only security against chaos, crime, and ignorance - is, through many transmigrations, and amid endless ridicules, arguments, and ostensible failures Walt Whitman
ignorance opinion bernard-shaw
Concerning no subject would [George Bernard] Shaw be deterred by the minor accident of total ignorance from penning a definitive opinion. Roger Scruton
ignorance moral splendid
...human beings are a species splendid in their array of moral equipment, tragic in their propensity to misuse it, and pathetic in their ignorance of the misuse. Robert Wright
ignorance
Ignorance can't be pardoned. Only cured. Robert Silverberg
ignorance tragedy complacency
The tragedy of ignorance is its complacency. Robert Quillen
ignorance defense suitable
Ignorance is not a suitable defense Roger Goodell
ignorance vaults
Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge... Samuel Taylor Coleridge
ignorance thinking circles
Whosoever shall look heedfully upon those who are eminent for their riches will not think their condition such as that he should hazard his quiet, and much less his virtue, to obtain it, for all that great wealth generally gives above a moderate fortune is more room for the freaks of caprice, and more privilege for ignorance and vice, a quicker succession of flatteries, and a larger circle of voluptuousness. Samuel Johnson
ignorance
Ignorance cannot always be inferred from inaccuracy; knowledge is not always present.
ignorance guilty crime
He that voluntarily continues in ignorance, is guilty of all the crimes which ignorance produces.
ignorance grieving knowing
Ignorance is mere privation by which nothing can be produced: it is a vacuity in which the soul sits motionless and torpid for want of attraction: and, without knowing why, we always rejoice when we learn, and grieve when we forget.
ignorance men race
There is a certain race of men that either imagine it their duty, or make it their amusement, to hinder the reception of every work of learning or genius, who stand as sentinels in the avenues of fame, and value themselves upon giving Ignorance and Envy the first notice of a prey.
ignorance knowledge quality
Persius has justly observed, that knowledge is nothing to him who is not known by others to possess it: to the scholar himself it is nothing with respect either to honour or advantage, for the world cannot reward those qualities which are concealed from it; with respect to others it is nothing, because it affords no help to ignorance or errour.
ignorance age scarcity
We live in an age of artificial scarcity, maintained by ignorance and fear. Robert Anton Wilson
ignorance knowing people
People see what they want to see. Red Barber
ignorance vision authority
There's a lot of ignorance in our business... Everybody's an authority. To have your own vision is rewarding. Robert Duvall
ignorance hands safety
Slavery is but half abolished, emancipation is but half completed, while millions of freemen with votes in their hands are left without education. Justice to them, the welfare of the States in which they live, the safety of the whole Republic, the dignity of the elective franchise, - all alike demand that the still remaining bonds of ignorance shall be unloosed and broken, and the minds as well as the bodies of the emancipated go free. Robert Charles Winthrop
ignorance race vegetarianism
Vegetarianism is a link to perfection and peace. But it's a small link. There are lots of other issues: apartheid , vivisection, political prisoners, the arms race. There's so much going on in this world today, so much ignorance among people. That's not to say I'm not standing amongst everybody. But the point is, what can we do now? That's the thing about vegetarianism; it's an individual's decision and it's something you have control over. How many things do we really have control over? River Phoenix
ignorance atheism patterns
Denial of our pattern of failure seems to be a kind of practical atheism or chosen ignorance among many believers and clergy. Richard Rohr
ignorance dark light
In a spiral galaxy, the ratio of dark-to-light matter is about a factor of ten. That's probably a good number for the ratio of our ignorance-to-knowledge. We're out of kindergarten, but only in about third grade. Vera Rubin
ignorance doubt cynicism
Doubt is the middle position between knowledge and ignorance. It encompasses cynicism but also genuine questioning. Vera Farmiga
ignorance hot-headed cold-hearted
It is debatable which is causing us more harm - hot-headed ignorance or cold-hearted intellectualism. Vance Havner
ignorance people ignorant
I do sometimes accuse people of ignorance, but that is not intended to be an insult. I'm ignorant of lots of things. Ignorance is something that can be remedied by education. Richard Dawkins
ignorance simple religion
Evolution is a fact, as securely established as any in science, and he who denies it betrays woeful ignorance and lack of education, which likely extends to other fields as well. Evolution is not some recondite backwater of science, ignorance of which would be pardonable. It is the stunningly simple but elegant explanation of our very existence and the existence of every living creature on the planet.
ignorance knowledge science
It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.
ignorance might bliss
Ignorance might be bliss, but it's irresponsible and dangerous too. Robyn Carr
ignorance religion atheism
Ignorance worships mystery; reason explains it; the one grovels, the other soars. Robert Green Ingersoll
ignorance eden giving
Give me the storm and tempest of thought and action, rather than the dead calm of ignorance and faith! Banish me from Eden when you will; but first let me eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge!
ignorance slavery
There is no slavery but ignorance.
ignorance mean men
Crimes were committed to punish crimes, and crimes were committed to prevent crimes. The world has been filled with prisons and dungeons, with chains and whips, with crosses and gibbets, with thumbscrews and racks, with hangmen and heads-men — and yet these frightful means and instrumentalities have committed far more crimes than they have prevented.... Ignorance, filth, and poverty are the missionaries of crime. As long as dishonorable success outranks honest effort — as long as society bows and cringes before the great thieves, there will be little ones enough to fill the jails.