Quotes about ignorance
ignorance challenges essentials
It is an essential part of the scientific enterprise to admit ignorance, even to exult in ignorance as a challenge to future conquests. Richard Dawkins
ignorance intelligence misled
He who is not aware of his ignorance will be only misled by his knowledge. Richard Whately
ignorance evil genius
Because there is no greater evil than ignorance and the destruction of genius. Ignorance has been responsible for more death, more bigotry, and more sin than any other force. It is the destroyer of mankind. Richelle Mead
ignorance greek might
Unbelief, in distinction from disbelief, is a confession of ignorance where honest inquiry might easily find the truth. - "Agnostic" is but the Greek for "ignoramus." Tryon Edwards
ignorance names would-be
Mystery is but another name for ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain!
ignorance safe dangerous
There's nothing as safe as ignorance or as dangerous. Rex Stout
ignorance people skillful
People are so skillful in their ignorance! Paramahansa Yogananda
ignorance men long
Every man should study conciseness in speaking; it is a sign of ignorance not to know that long speeches, though they may please the speaker, are the torture of the hearer.
ignorance hatred
Ignorance breeds fear and hatred. P. C. Cast
ignorance isolation bigotry
Fear and Bigotry are bred fom isolation and ignorance. -Shekinah
ignorance logic infinite
God is represented as infinite, eternal, incomprehensible; he is contained under every predicate in non that the logic of ignorance could fabricate. Percy Bysshe Shelley
ignorance thinking feelings
What is life? Thoughts and feelings arise, with or without our will, and we employ words to express them. We are born, and our birth is unremembered and our infancy remembered but in fragments. We live on, and in living we lose the apprehension of life. How vain is it to think that words can penetrate the mystery of our being. Rightly used they may make evident our ignorance of ourselves, and this is much.
ignorance simple men
It is thus that the generality of mankind, whose lot is ignorance, attributes to the Divinity, not only the unusual effects which strike them, but moreover the most simple events, of which the causes are the most simple to understand by whomever is able to study them. In a word, man has always respected unknown causes, surprising effects that his ignorance kept him from unraveling. It was on this debris of nature that man raised the imaginary colossus of the Divinity.
ignorance judgement criticism
Contemporary criticism only represents the amount of ignorance genius has to contend with. . . . Time will reverse the judgement of the vulgar.
ignorance study funny-exam
The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.
ignorance men precious-gifts
Great things are accomplished by those who do not feel the impotence of man. This is a precious gift. Paul Valery
ignorance knowing transformed
[W]e must come into a transformed knowing, an unknowing which comes not from ignorance but from knowledge.
ignorance men evil
God's plan' is often a front for men's plans and a cover for inadequacy, ignorance, and evil. Mary Daly
ignorance three degrees
There are three degrees of comparison: stupido, stupidissimo, and tenore. Pietro Mascagni
ignorance thinking people
Mental illnesses are so frightening and there's so much ignorance about them that I think it comforts people to think, 'Oh, well, it happens to these people because they deserve it.'
ignorance alchemist world
I'm like everyone else—I see the world in terms of what I would like to see happen, not what actually does. Paulo Coelho
ignorance investing buying
The worst thing you can do is invest in companies you know nothing about. Unfortunately, buying stocks on ignorance is still a popular American pastime. Peter Lynch
ignorance mountain safe
Our ignorance allowed us to live, as you are in the mountains, and your rope is frayed and about to break, but you don't know it and feel safe. Primo Levi
ignorance wildlife world
Wildlife of the world is disappearing... simply because of a general and widespread ignorance and neglect Prince Philip
ignorance fate men
Humanity is our common lot. All men are made of the same clay. There is no difference, at least here on Earth, in the fate assigned to us. We come of the same void, inhabit the same flesh, are dissolved in the same ashes. But ignorance infecting the human substance turns it black, and that incurable blackness, gaining possession of the soul, becomes Evil. Victor Hugo
ignorance ends
Freedom begins where it ends ignorance.
ignorance passion evil
She loved with so much passion as she loved with ignorance. She did not know whether it were good or evil, beneficent or dangerous, necessary or accidental, eternal or transitory, permitted or prohibited: she loved.
ignorance duplicity selfishness
Those who blamed aggression formed Amity.’… ‘Those who blamed ignorance became the Erudite.’… ‘Those who blamed duplicity created Candor.’… ‘Those who blamed selfishness made Abnegation.’… ‘And those who blamed cowardice were the Dauntless. Veronica Roth
ignorance fishing skills
Instead of our drab slogging forth and back to the fishing boats, there's reason to live! We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill. We can learn to be free! we can learn to fly! Richard Bach
ignorance safety
To learn anything, you must put aside the safety of your ignorance.
ignorance skills flying
We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill.
ignorance pride mixtures
Ignorance and power and pride are a deadly mixture, you know. Robert Fulghum
ignorance decision made
All decisions are made on insufficient evidence. Rita Mae Brown