Quotes about ignorance
ignorance stuff
Ignorance ain't not knowin' stuff; ignorance is knowin' stuff that AIN'T TRUE. Josh Billings
ignorance nurse prejudice
Ignorance is the wet-nurse of prejudice.
ignorance reflection arrogance
True wisdom is plenty of experience, observation, and reflection. False wisdom is plenty of ignorance, arrogance, and impudence.
ignorance depth illusion
An illusion of depth often occurs if a blockhead is a muddlehead at the same time Karl Kraus
ignorance years trying
We've tried ignorance for a thousand years. It's time we try education. Joycelyn Elders
ignorance world
The world never leaves one in ignorance or in peace. Ouida
ignorance upper-class gone
Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. Oscar Wilde
ignorance caring keys
Three key humanist virtues are courage, cognition, and caring - not dependence, ignorance, or insensitivity to the needs of others. Paul Kurtz
ignorance reality perception
Travelers perceptions do not always reflect the reality of a situation, and ignorance is costing the industry billions. Paul Dowling
ignorance knowledge-and-power evil
Is there anything science should not try to explain? Science is knowledge and knowledge is power - power to do good or evil. Sometimes ignorance is bliss. Paul Davies
ignorance causes apathy
When an individual fear or apathy would cause us to pass by the unfortunate, then life is of no account.
ignorance history literature
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. Gustave Flaubert
ignorance fighting enemy
To fight an enemy properly, you have to know what they are. Ignorance is defeat. Greg Bear
ignorance office personality
Arrogance, ignorance, and incompetence. Not a pretty cocktail of personality traits in the best of situations. No sirree. Not a pretty cocktail in an office-mate and not a pretty cocktail in a head of state. In fact, in a leader, it's a lethal cocktail. Graydon Carter
ignorance poetic dramatic
There is a certain poetic value, and that a genuine one, in this sense of having missed the full meaning of things. There is beauty, not only in wisdom, but in this dazed and dramatic ignorance. Gilbert K. Chesterton
ignorance i-hate-you boredom
There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
ignorance understanding weak
Nothing convinces persons of a weak understanding so effectually, as what they do not comprehend. Lord Chesterfield
ignorance simple two
There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion. Lord Acton
ignorance pride evil
The major threats to our survival no longer stem from nature without but from our own human nature within. It is our carelessness, our hostilities, our selfishness and pride and willful ignorance that endanger the world. M. Scott Peck
ignorance eye light
Science . . . has opened our eyes to the vastness of the universe and given us light, truth and freedom from fear where once was darkness, ignorance and superstition. There is no personal salvation, except through science. Luther Burbank
ignorance eye california
A lot of the public responses are based on the prejudices and ignorance, they've been inherited from previous generations. California has always been a multicultural state, but the thing is, you've got to open your eyes and people in general need to get over their own prejudices. Luis Valdez
ignorance people different
Uncertainty and fear and ignorance about immigrants, about people who are different, has a history as old as our Nation. Luis Gutierrez
ignorance two light
At my back I hear the word-"homosexual"-and it seems to split my world in two.... It is ignorance, our ignorance of one another, that creates this terrifying erotic chaos. Information, a crumb of information, seems to light the world. John Cheever
ignorance thinking people
It is only out of ignorance that people are cruel, because they really don't think it will come back. Maya Angelou
ignorance writing history
In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better. Edward de Bono
ignorance two scripture
Unfortunately, 19th-century scientists were just as ready to jump to the conclusion that any guess about nature was an obvious fact, as were 17th-century sectarians to jump to the conclusion that any guess about Scripture was the obvious explanation . . . . and this clumsy collision of two very impatient forms of ignorance was known as the quarrel of Science and Religion.
ignorance survival-skills skills
Elective ignorance was a great survival skill, perhaps the greatest. Jonathan Franzen
ignorance home color
So many people shy away from using color in their homes for fear of getting it wrong...But ignorance and fear are no reason to live in a bland box. Jonathan Adler
ignorance creative way
In fact, the only way to remain creative over time--to not be undone by our expertise--is to experiment with ignorance, to stare at things we don't fully understand. Jonah Lehrer
ignorance comfort
Don't censor yourself to comfort their ignorance. Jon Stewart
ignorance comfort
I’m not going to censor myself to comfort your ignorance
ignorance epidemics evil
Evil is relatively rare. Ignorance is epidemic.
ignorance scientist enough
I am one of those scientists who feels that it is no longer enough just to get on and do science. We have to devote a significant proportion of our time and resources to defending it from deliberate attack from organised ignorance. Richard Dawkins