Quotes about ignorance
ignorance thinking people
To most people, nothing is more troublesome than the effort of thinking. James Bryce
ignorance kind bliss
Ignorance is kind of bliss. Jackie DeShannon
ignorance long ignorant
So long as thou are ignorant be not ashamed to learn. Ignorance is the greatest of all infirmities, and when justified, the chiefest of all follies. Izaak Walton
ignorance intuition cover-ups
It was easy to cover up ignorance by the mystical word "intuition. Isaac Asimov
ignorance cutting science
When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself. Isaac Asimov
ignorance mean democracies-have
The false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge. Isaac Asimov
ignorance may today
There are many aspects of the universe that still cannot be explained satisfactorily by science; but ignorance only implies ignorance that may someday be conquered. To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. Isaac Asimov
ignorance knowing deep-life
Uncertainty that comes from knowledge (knowing what you don't know) is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance. Isaac Asimov
ignorance knowledge science
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them. Isaac Asimov
ignorance mean democracies-have
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge. Isaac Asimov
ignorance voice white
Women of color have no call to trust white women until white women take a gander at the world around them, investigate, learn and annihilate ignorance founded in being white in a society where the perspective and voice presented to the general public is white. Inga Muscio
ignorance dynamics violence
Without honoring Whores, we cannot truly understand and transcend the dynamics of violence, destruction and ignorance fostered in our cuntfearing society. Inga Muscio
ignorance expression two
There are only two energies at the core of the human experience: love and fear. Love grants freedom, fear takes it away. Love invites full expression, fear punishes it. Love invites you, always, to break the bonds of ignorance. Neale Donald Walsch
ignorance slavery
Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery Miles Davis
ignorance men responsible
A man is responsible for his ignorance. Milan Kundera
ignorance law sophisticated
According to a charming law of nature which is evident even in the most sophisticated societies, we live in complete ignorance of whatever we love. Marcel Proust
ignorance self prejudice
Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of mankind. Joseph Addison
ignorance yield evil
Misery and ignorance are always the cause of great evils. Misery is easily excited to anger, and ignorance soon yields to perfidious counsels. Joseph Addison
ignorance men thinking
Ignorance is servitude, because as a man thinks, so he is; a man who does not think for himself and allows himself to be guided by the thought of another is like the beast led by a halter. Jose Rizal
ignorance innocence forgotten
Ignorance is learned; innocence is forgotten. Jose Bergamin
ignorance catholic christ
An ignorance of Marx is as frequent among Marxists as an ignorance of Christ is among Catholics. Jose Bergamin
ignorance space lines
His life, measured in space and time, will take up a mere few lines, which my ignorance will abbreviate further. Jorge Luis Borges
ignorance imagine not-sure
I am not sure of anything, I know nothing . . . can you imagine that I don't even know the date of my own death? Jorge Luis Borges
ignorance together panic
Can you define "plan" as "a loose sequence of manifestly inadequate observations and conjectures, held together by panic, indecision, and ignorance"? If so, it was a very good plan. Jonathan Stroud
ignorance giving together
It is very unfair in any writer to employ ignorance and malice together, because it gives his answerer double work. Jonathan Swift
ignorance gunpowder use
The greatest Inventions were produced in Times of Ignorance; as the Use of the Compass, Gunpowder, and Printing; and by the dullest Nation, as the Germans. Jonathan Swift
ignorance kids childhood
Kids who don't eavesdrop on adult conversations are doomed to a childhood of ignorance. Kelley Armstrong
ignorance errors faults
We rather confess our moral errors, faults, and crimes than our ignorance. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
ignorance ignorant statistics
Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
ignorance justice social-justice
Nothing is worse than active ignorance. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
ignorance giving honest
To conceal ignorance is to increase it. An honest confession of it, however, gives ground for the hope that it will diminish some day or the other. Mahatma Gandhi
ignorance like-you far-away
Is everyone who lives in Ignorance like you?" asked Milo. "Much worse," he said longingly. "But I don't live here. I'm from a place very far away called Context. Norton Juster
ignorance knowledge swimming
You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and not get wet. Norton Juster