Quotes about ignorance
ignorance thinking songwriting
I don't think you can ever regain your ignorance. Carla Bley
ignorance media television
These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television, but more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance. Alain Badiou
ignorance dark knowing
Curiosity takes ignorance seriously - and is confident enough to admit when it's in the dark. It is aware of not knowing. And then it sets out to do something about it. Alain de Botton
ignorance knowledge strive touches
One should always strive for knowledge so that ignorance never touches him.
ignorance past house
How frail and ephemeral is the material substance of letters, which makes their very survival so hazardous. Print has a permanence of its own, though it may not be much worth preserving, but a letter! Conveyed by uncertain transportation, over which the sender has no control; committed to a single individual who may be careless or inappreciative; left to the mercy of future generations, of families maybe anxious to suppress the past, of the accidents of removals and house-cleanings, or of mere ignorance. How often it has been by the veriest chance that they have survived at all. Elizabeth Drew
ignorance justice religion
In her present ignorance, woman's religion, instead of making her noble and free, by the wrong application of great principles ofright and justice, has made her bondage but more certain and lasting, her degradation more hopeless and complete. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
ignorance doubt
Doubt is really a groping ignorance. Eliphas Levi
ignorance pride scotland
I perceive two things in Scotland of the most fearful omen: ignorance of theological truth, and a readiness to pride themselves in and boast of it. Edward Irving
ignorance stupidity unknowing
Unknowing ignorance is preferable to informed stupidity. Brandon Sanderson
ignorance effort missing
Ignorance is hardly unusual, Miss Davar. The longer I live, the more I come to realize that it is the natural state of the human mind. There are many who will strive to defend its sanctity and then expect you to be impressed with their efforts.
ignorance discovery world
What is wrong is not the great discoveries of science—information is always better than ignorance, no matter what information or what ignorance. What is wrong is the belief behind the information, the belief that information will change the world. It won’t. Archibald MacLeish
ignorance simple parent
We disliked the rigours of existence, the unfulfilled longings, the enshrined injustices of the world, the labyrinths of love, the ignorance of parents, the fact of dying, and the amazing indifference of the Living in the midst of the simple beauties of the universe. We feared the heartlessness of human beings, all of whom are born blind, few of whom ever learn to see. Ben Okri
ignorance air-balloons hot
When moral superiority combines with billowing ignorance, they fill up a hot-air balloon that's awfully hard not to poke. Barbara Kingsolver
ignorance men thinking
Men are mistaken in thinking themselves free; their opinion is made up of consciousness of their own actions, and ignorance of the causes by which they are determined. Baruch Spinoza
ignorance superstitions latter
I make this chief distinction between religion and superstition, that the latter is founded on ignorance, the former on knowledge.
ignorance pride self
The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
ignorance maturity profound
That's maturity-when you realize that you've finally arrived at a state of ignorance as profound as your parents. Barbara Mertz
ignorance play irony
A play is made by sensing how the forces in life simulate ignorance-you set free the concealed irony, the deadly joke. Arthur Miller
ignorance america film
Given the unprecedented ignorance of the Bible in contemporary America, it is likely that more young Americans will only know the Noah of 'Noah.' We can only hope that the film offers even a fraction of the wisdom of the original. Dennis Prager
ignorance people china
Even if they're functioning out of ignorance, they are still participating and must be suppressed. In China, even one million people can be considered a small sum. Deng Xiaoping
ignorance prejudice
Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice. Denis Diderot
ignorance government people
It seems to me that if one had kept silence up to now regarding religion, people would still be submerged in the most grotesque and dangerous superstition ... regarding government, we would still be groaning under the bonds of feudal government ... regarding morals, we would still be having to learn what is virtue and what is vice. To forbid all these discussions, the only ones worthy of occupying a good mind, is to perpetuate the reign of ignorance and barbarism.
ignorance technology simple
Space exploration must be undertaken not only out of simple human curiosity but also to further the survival of the species. The twentieth century has seen the unprecedented development and proliferation of magnificent technologies. Many of them, through design, ignorance, or misuse, are capable of destroying life as well as enhancing it. Space exploration alone holds the promise of eventual escape from a dying planet, provided we wisely manage our resources in the meantime and actually survive that long. Edgar Mitchell
ignorance ego
Our ignorance, and it is based on the egos we have. It is the unwillingness to go beyond ego.
ignorance gaps natural
There are no unnatural or supernatural phenomenon, only very large gaps in our knowledge of what is natural... we should strive to fill those gaps of ignorance.
ignorance dignity mask
Dignity is a mask we wear to hide our ignorance. Elbert Hubbard
ignorance home america
The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.
ignorance knowledge school
Schools teach ignorance. Eduardo Galeano
ignorance men firsts
The things best to know are first principles and causes, but these things are perhaps the most difficult for men to grasp, for they are farthest removed from the senses ... Aristotle
ignorance simple source
There is simple ignorance, which is the source of lighter offenses, and double ignorance, which is accompanied by a conceit of wisdom.
ignorance evil
There is only one good, that is knowledge; there is only one evil, that is ignorance.
ignorance men self
It belongs to small-mindedness to be unable to bear either honor or dishonor, either good fortune or bad, but to be filled with conceit when honored and puffed up by trifling good fortune, and to be unable to bear even the smallest dishonor and to deem any chance failure a great misfortune, and to be distressed and annonyed at everything. Moreover the small-minded man is the sort of person to call all slights an insult and dishonor, even those that are due to ignorance or forgetfulness. Small-mindedness is accompanied by pettiness, querulousness, pessimism and self-abasement.
ignorance men errors
Every wicked man is in ignorance as to what he ought to do, and from what to abstain, and it is because of error such as this that men become unjust and, in a word, wicked.