Quotes about ignorance
ignorance disease want
Want is one only of five giants on the road of reconstruction; the others are Disease, Ignorance, Squalor, and Idleness. William Beveridge
ignorance innocence
Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with ignorance... William Blake
ignorance appearance ifs
Ignorance, if recognized, is often more fruitful than the appearance of knowledge. Walker Percy
ignorance evil selfishness
The greatest slave is not he who is ruled by a despot, great though that evil be, but he who is in the thrall of his own moral ignorance, selfishness, and vice. Samuel Smiles
ignorance pride religion
Tis certain that Morality is an indispensable Requisite of true Religion, and there can be none without it. But it would become the Pride and Ignorance of Pagans only, to magnify it, as the Whole of what is necessary. Samuel Richardson
ignorance pretension preserves
One who preserves all the exterior decencies of ignorance. Samuel Foote
ignorance understanding ignorant
Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
ignorance rejection refuse
The ultimate ignorance is the rejection of something you know nothing about, yet refuse to investigate. Wayne Dyer
ignorance views essentials
We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance. Warren Weaver
ignorance world able
If I prove extravagant, I shall be more so from ignorance than willfulness. I am not wholly insensible to the pleasures of the world, therefore shall not be governed entirely by necessity; but I flatter myself, at least, in being able to restrain their gratification within due bonds. Washington Allston
ignorance sometimes perks-of-a-wallflower
It’s much easier not to know things sometimes. Stephen Chbosky
ignorance gun mind
Join me in standing up against any actual knowledge about guns. Let the CDC know they can take away our ignorance when the pry it from our cold dead minds. Stephen Colbert
ignorance writing thinking
Everybody gets told to write about what they know. The trouble with many of us is that at the earlier stages of life we think we know everything- or to put it more usefully, we are often unaware of the scope and structure of our ignorance. Thomas Pynchon
ignorance learning half
Half-knowledge is worse than ignorance. Thomas B. Macaulay
ignorance men law
Ignorance of the law is no good excuse, where every man is bound to take notice of the laws to which he is subject. Thomas Hobbes
ignorance men talking
Opinion of ghosts, ignorance of second causes, devotion to what men fear, and talking of things casual for prognostics, consisteth the natural seeds of religion
ignorance men two
When it happeneth that a man signifieth unto us two contradictory opinions whereof the one is clearly and directly signified, andthe other either drawn from that by consequence, or not known to be contradictory to it; then (when he is not present to explicate himself better) we are to take the former of his opinions; for that is clearly signified to be his, and directly, whereas the other might proceed from error in the deduction, or ignorance of the repugnancy.
ignorance passion men
And in these four things, opinion of ghosts , ignorance of second causes, devotion towards what men fear , and taking of things casual for prognostics , consisteth the natural seed of religion ; which by reason of the different fancies, judgments and passions of several men, has grown up into ceremonies so different, that those which are used by one man, are for the most part ridiculous to another.
ignorance men law
But if one Subject giveth Counsell to another, to do anything contrary to the Lawes, whether that Counsell proceed from evil intention, or from ignorance onely, it is punishable by the Common-wealth; because igorance of the Law, is no good excuse, where every man is bound to take notice of the Lawes to which he is subject.
ignorance white-privilege america
Ignorance of how we are shaped racially is the first sign of privilege. In other words. It is a privilege to ignore the consequences of race in America. Tim Wise
ignorance disease bigotry
Bigotry is the disease of ignorance... Thomas Jefferson
ignorance nigeria-independence nations
No nation is permitted to live in ignorance with impunity
ignorance government self
Ignorance and bigotry, like other insanities, are incapable of self-government.
ignorance government people
To constrain the brute force of the people, the European governments deem it necessary to keep them down by hard labor, poverty and ignorance, and to take from them, as from bees, so much of their earnings, as that unremitting labor shall be necessary to obtain a sufficient surplus to sustain a scanty and miserable life.
ignorance light simplicity
The human mind feels restless and dissatisfied under the anxieties of ignorance. It longs for the repose of conviction; and to gain this repose it will often rather precipitate its conclusions than wait for the tardy lights of observation and experiment. There is such a thing, too, as the love of simplicity and system,--a prejudice of the understanding which disposes it to include all the phenomena of nature under a few sweeping generalities,--an indolence which loves to repose on the beauties of a theory rather than encounter the fatiguing detail of its evidences. Thomas Chalmers
ignorance men knowing
A man is never astonished that he doesn't know what another does, but he is surprised at the gross ignorance of the other in not knowing what he does. Thomas Chandler Haliburton
ignorance bliss cases
Ignorance is not bliss, but in my case, that was. Victoria Principal
ignorance writing needs
Ignorance breeds antipathy. Until I got to know how computers worked, I didn't want anything to do with them. I said, 'Well, why do I need them? I write letters.' Which I still do. Viggo Mortensen
ignorance arrogance combination
Ignorance and arrogance are a lethal combination. Nowhere do we see that more clearly among writers and performers who pontificate as historians when they know nothing about history. Victor Davis Hanson
ignorance mean intelligent
There is no supernatural, there is only nature. Nature alone exists and contains all. All is. There is the part of nature that we perceive, and the part of nature that we do not perceive. ... If you abandon these facts, beware; charlatans will light upon them, also the imbecile. There is no mean: science, or ignorance. If science does not want these facts, ignorance will take them up. You have refused to enlarge human intelligence, you augment human stupidity. When Laplace withdraws Cagliostro appears. Victor Hugo
ignorance conflict suspicion
Conflict grows out of ignorance and suspicion. Gordon B. Hinckley
ignorance evil tree
The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned. Gerard De Nerval
ignorance conditions
Ignorance is a voluntary condition. Herbert V. Prochnow