Quotes about ignorance
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My mum taught me how to read before I went to kindergarden, I always thought that being able to read provided lightness, help to dispel darkness, ignorance and stupidity. Michael Moore
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Freemasonry teaches not merely temperance, fortitude, prudence, justice, brotherly love, relief, and truth, but liberty, equality, and fraternity, and it denounces ignorance, superstition, bigotry, lust tyranny and despotism. Theodore Roosevelt
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In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance. Theodore Dreiser
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Granny sighed. "You have learned something," she said, and thought it safe to insert a touch of sternness into her voice. "They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it is not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance. Terry Pratchett
ignorance bliss neighbor
Where ignorance is bliss it's foolish to borrow your neighbor's newspaper. Kin Hubbard
ignorance people stupidity
He was ignorant, but a lot of people mistook ignorance for stupidity, and knowingness for intelligence. Michael Lewis
ignorance america people
In North America, the greatest threat to the Jewish people is not the external force of antisemitism, but the internal forces of apathy, inertia and ignorance of our own heritage. Michael Steinhardt
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Anyone who claims that all religions are the same betrays not only an ignorance of all religions but also a caricatured view of even the best-known ones. Every religion at its core is exclusive. Ravi Zacharias
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All religions are not the same. All religions do not point to God. All religions do not say that all religions are the same. At the heart of every religion is an uncompromising commitment to a particular way of defining who God is or is not and accordingly, of defining life's purpose. Anyone who claims that all religions are the same betrays not only an ignorance of all religions but also a caricatured view of even the best-known ones. Every religion at its core is exclusive.
ignorance people world
But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't last. Ray Bradbury
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If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn.
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Most Muslim women know it is fear and curiosity that cause people to stare. They know it is ignorance and stereotypes that cause people to suppose that a piece of material covering the hair strips a woman of the ability to speak English, pursue a career, work a remote control. Randa Abdel-Fattah
ignorance vanity stupidity
Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity. Eric Hoffer
ignorance dominion absurdity
Ignorance is the dominion of absurdity. James Anthony Froude
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Weakness is what brings ignorance, cheapness, racism, homophobia, desperation, cruelty, brutality, all these things that will keep a society chained to the ground, one foot nailed to the floor. Henry Rollins
ignorance reflection men
Very often pessimistic people speak against their own desire. They want to undertake some work, and they say, 'I will do this, but I don't think I shall succeed in it.' Thus they hinder themselves in their path. Man does not know that every thought makes an impression on the consciousness and on the rhythm with which the consciousness is working. According to that rhythm that reflection will come true and happen; and a man proves to be his own enemy by his ignorance of these things. Hazrat Inayat Khan
ignorance lack-of-love
All ignorance is the lack of love.
ignorance science prejudice
A few drops of science will often disinfect an entire barrel full of ignorance and prejudice. Hendrik Willem Van Loon
ignorance ignorant facts
An ignorant person is, by the very fact of his or her ignorance, a very dangerous person.
ignorance thinking precious-possessions
Any formal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious possession - their ignorance.
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Ignorance may be bliss, but it does not lead to liberation. Henepola Gunaratana
ignorance growth remember
How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time? Henry David Thoreau
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Fifty per cent of the public doesn't know what 'fifty per cent' means. Patricia Hewitt
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Know not what you know, and see not what you see. [Lat., Etiam illud quod scies nesciveris; Ne videris quod videris.] Plautus
ignorance past men
We see many instances of cities going down like sinking ships to their destruction. There have been such wrecks in the past and there surely will be others in the future, caused by the wickedness of captains and crews alike. For these are guilty men, whose sin is supreme ignorance of what matters most. Plato
ignorance roots evil
Ignorance: the root of all evil.
ignorance curiosity ridiculous
To be curious about that which is not one's concern while still in ignorance of oneself is ridiculous.
ignorance skills judging
And the quality of good judgement is clearly a form of knowledge and skill, as it is because of knowledge and not because of ignorance that we judge well.
ignorance roots causes
Ignorance is the root cause of all difficulties.
ignorance my-own knows
All I really know is the extent of my own ignorance
ignorance soul sickness
Complacent ignorance is the most lethal sickness of the soul
ignorance determined kind
Ignorance is not bliss — it is oblivion. Determined ignorance is the hastiest kind of oblivion. Philip Wylie
ignorance oblivion bliss
Ignorance is not bliss - it is oblivion.