Quotes about ignorance
ignorance thinking cost
If you think the cost of education is high, think about ignorance. Derek Bok
ignorance understanding spheres
As the sphere of understanding grows ever larger, necessarily the surface area of ignorance gets ever bigger Dennis McKenna
ignorance light darkness
I always thought my questions were wrong questions because no one else asked them. Maybe no one thought of them. Maybe darkness got there first. Maybe I am the first light touching a gulf of ignorance... Maybe my questions matter. Elizabeth Moon
ignorance dark simple
There is simple ignorance, not knowing, and willful ignorance that refuses to know, that covers the light of knowledge with the dark blanket of bias.
ignorance mean greatness
An ignorance of means may minister to greatness, but an ignorance of aims make it impossible to be great at all. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
ignorance fate soul
Three were the fates. Poverty that chains; gray drudgery that grinds the hope away, and gaping ignorance that starves the soul. Edwin Markham
ignorance knowledge right-conduct
Right conduct can never, except by some rare accident, be promoted by ignorance or hindered by knowledge. Bertrand Russell
ignorance sarcasm
His ignorance is encyclopedic. Abba Eban
ignorance progress too-much
Without knowledge there can be no sure progress. Vice and barbarism are the inseparable companions of ignorance. Nor is it too much to say that, except in rare instances, the highest virtue is attained only through intelligence. Charles Sumner
ignorance doe generations
It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous. Charles Dudley Warner
ignorance race people
The abuse dies in a day, but the denial slays the life of the people, and entombs the hope of the race. Charles Bradlaugh
ignorance poverty charity
Charity puts and end to poverty; righteous conduct to misery; discretion to ignorance; and scrutiny to fear. Chanakya
ignorance punishment dwelling
Whoever imposes severe punishment becomes repulsive to the people; while he who awards mild punishment becomes contemptible. But whoever imposes punishment as deserved becomes respectable. For punishment when awarded with due consideration, makes the people devoted to righteousness and to works productive of wealth and enjoyment; while punishment, when ill-awarded under the influence of greed and anger or owing to ignorance, excites fury even among hermits and ascetics dwelling in forests, not to speak of householders.
ignorance crowds madness
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds Charles Mackay
ignorance errors toil
Three causes especially have excited the discontent of mankind; and, by impelling us to seek remedies for the irremediable, have bewildered us in a maze of madness and error. These are death, toil, and the ignorance of the future..
ignorance thinking investing
As a result of overdiversification, their (active managers) returns get watered down. Diversification covers up ignorance. Active managers haven't done enough research into any of their companies. If managers have 200 positions, do you think they know what's going on at any one of those companies at this moment? Bill Ackman
ignorance people church
Politics and church are the same. They keep the people in ignorance. Bob Marley
ignorance learning waste
Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous? Bill Watterson
ignorance tyranny-founding-fathers tyranny
It is the religion of ignorance that tyranny begins. Benjamin Franklin
ignorance expensive
The only thing that is more expensive than education is ignorance.
ignorance simplicity crafts
By the word simplicity, is not always meant folly or ignorance; but often, pure and upright Nature, free from artifice, craft or deceitful ornament.
ignorance knowledge reflection
To inquisitive minds like yours and mine the reflection that the quantity of human knowledge bears no proportion to the quantity of human ignorance must be in one view rather pleasing, viz., that though we are to live forever we may be continually amused and delighted with learning something new.
ignorance literature study
His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge. Arthur Conan Doyle
ignorance matter stranger
I am now and have always been a stranger to the realm of practical matters. Anton Chekhov
ignorance admiration bases
Admiration is the basis of ignorance. Baltasar Gracian
ignorance would-be difficult
It would be difficult to dispel ignorance unless there is freedom to pursue the truth unfettered by fear. Aung San Suu Kyi
ignorance hiding peter
I'll show you how," Peter said. "Stop hiding behind your ignorance. Diana Wynne Jones
ignorance orthodoxy heresy
By identifying the new learning with heresy, you make orthodoxy synonymous with ignorance. Desiderius Erasmus
ignorance
In friendship, as in love, we are often happier through our ignorance than our knowledge. William Shakespeare
ignorance stupidity common
The common curse of mankind, folly and ignorance, be thine in great revenue!
ignorance army years
The most basic barrier was language itself, very few Americans in Iraq whether soldiers or diplomats or news paper reporters could speak more than a few words of Arabic. A remarkable number of them didn't even have translators. That meant for many Iraqis the typical 19 year old army corporal from South Dakota was not a youthful innocent carrying Americas good will, he was a terrifying combination of firepower and ignorance. Dexter Filkins
ignorance pride men
Slavery...dishonors labor. It introduces idleness into society, and with idleness, ignorance and pride, luxury and distress. It enervates the powers of the mind and benumbs the activity of man. Alexis de Tocqueville
ignorance aristocracy vices
If a [democratic] society displays less brilliance than an aristocracy, there will also be less wretchedness; pleasures will be less outrageous and wellbeing will be shared by all; the sciences will be on a smaller scale but ignorance will be less common; opinions will be less vigorous and habits gentler; you will notice more vices and fewer crimes.