Quotes about ignorance
ignorance men said
I repent me of the ignorance wherein I ever said that God made man out of nothing: there is no nothing out of which to make anything; God is all in all, and he made us out of himself. George MacDonald
ignorance men long
Happy the man who lives long enough to acknowledge his ignorance Elizabeth Goudge
ignorance sacrifice compassion
To sacrifice the principles of manners, which require compassion and respect, and bat people over the head with their ignorance of etiquette rules they cannot be expected to know is both bad manners and poor etiquette. That social climbers and twits have misused etiquette throughout history should not be used as an argument for doing away with it. Judith Martin
ignorance skills ideas
Like language, a code of manners can be used with more or less skill, for laudable or for evil purposes, to express a great variety of ideas and emotions. In itself, it carries no moral value, but ignorance in use of this tool is not a sign of virtue.
ignorance dark zeppelins
I plead total ignorance to Led Zeppelin. I am totally in the dark about them. Karen O
ignorance made
She feared the unknown as we all do, and her ignorance made the unknown infinitely vast. Joseph Conrad
ignorance past destiny
One ship is very much like another and the sea is always the same. In the immutability of their surroundings the foreign shores, the foreign faces, the changing immensity of life, glide past, veiled not by a sense of mystery but by a slightly disdainful ignorance; for there is nothing mysterious to a seaman unless it be the sea itself, which is the mistress of his existence and as inscrutable as Destiny.
ignorance dawn awareness
It is forgivable to say nothing out of ignorance; it's inexcusable to remain silent once awareness dawns. Joshua Ferris
ignorance people bliss
People are supposed to fear the unknown, but ignorance is bliss when knowledge is so damn frightening. Laurell K. Hamilton
ignorance land class
Money is what fueled the industrial society. But in the informational society, the fuel, the power, is knowledge. One has now come to see a new class structure divided by those who have information and those who must function out of ignorance. This new class has its power not from money, not from land, but from knowledge. John Kenneth Galbraith
ignorance passion wish
Few economic problems, if any, are difficult of solution. The difficulty, all but invariably, is in confronting them. We know what needs to be done; for reasons of inertia, pecuniary interest, passion or ignorance, we do not wish to say so.
ignorance fifth
The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance. Lyndon B. Johnson
ignorance roots poverty
Poverty has many roots, but the tap root is ignorance.
ignorance argument behinds
Behind every argument is someone's ignorance. Louis D. Brandeis
ignorance purpose causes
Behind every argument is somebody's ignorance. Rediscover the foundation of truth and the purpose and causes of dispute immediately disappear.
ignorance knowledge kind
Knowledge is not happiness, and science But an exchange of ignorance for that Which is another kind of ignorance. Lord Byron
ignorance knowledge pride
Our conjectures pass upon us for truths; we will know what we do not know, and often, what we cannot know: so mortifying to our pride is the base suspicion of ignorance. Lord Chesterfield
ignorance knowledge people
A seeming ignorance is very often a most necessary part of worldly knowledge. It is, for instance, commonly advisable to seem ignorant of what people offer to tell you; and, when they say, Have you not heard of such a thing? to answer, No, and to let them go on, though you know it already.
ignorance government errors
Absolute power can only be supported by error, ignorance and prejudice.
ignorance ignorant
The most ignorant are the boldest conjecturers.
ignorance fighting weapons
Education is the best weapon through which we can fight poverty, ignorance and terrorism. Malala Yousafzai
ignorance people fool
Ignorance allowed politicians to fool people and bad administrators to be re-elected.
ignorance knowledge law
Knowledge has always been important, of course. The ancient Egyptians did not raise the stones for the pyramids relying on the incantations of their gods. The waters in the irrigation canals of the great Indus Civilisation did not flow according to the laws of ignorance. Knowledge has always been power and wealth. Mahathir Mohamad
ignorance rocks enlightened
The knowledge from an enlightened person breaks on the hard rocks of ignorance. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
ignorance order roots
All problems in life arise from some weakness of mind. All weakness of mind is due to the mind's ignorance of its own essential nature, which is universal and the source of infinite energy and intelligence. ... In order to root out any problem of life it is only necessary to be brought out of ignorance, to be brought to knowledge.
ignorance animal reptiles
The lower animals are our brethren. I include among them the lion and the tiger. We do not know how to live with these carnivorous beasts and poisonous reptiles because of our ignorance. Mahatma Gandhi
ignorance space stupidity
There is no limit to stupidity. - Space itself is said to be bounded by its own curvature, but stupidity continues beyond infinity. Gene Wolfe
ignorance gains degrees
Going to university is only one avenue to gain knowledge. There are others. A degree isn't insurance against ignorance. Julie Garwood
ignorance bliss ignorance-is-bliss
I'm a believer in 'Ignorance is bliss.' Julianna Margulies
ignorance ice fire
We are ignorant of the Beyond because this ignorance is the condition of our own life. Just as ice cannot know fire except by melting and vanishing. Jules Renard
ignorance diagnosis physicians
I was a bad practicing physician because I was never sure of the diagnosis or of the treatment. Joshua Lederberg
ignorance damage doe
It's not ignorance does so much damage; it's knowin' so derned much that ain't so. Josh Billings
ignorance stupidity unconscious
Stupidity,--unconscious ignorance.