Quotes about ignorance
ignorance vices foundation
Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up. Mary Astell
ignorance drug television
Television, the drug of the nation, breeding ignorance and feeding radiation... Michael Franti
ignorance knowing understanding
To act without clear understanding, to form habits without investigation, to follow a path all one's life without knowing where it really leads; such is the behavior of the multitude. Mencius
ignorance bliss embarrassing
Ignorance is indeed bliss, but it is also dangerous and embarrassing. Ted Nugent
ignorance dark evil
What we call evil, it seems to me, is simply ignorance bumping its head in the dark. Henry Ford
ignorance men self
Ignorance of ignorance, then, is that self-satisfied state of unawareness in which man, knowing nothing outside the limited area of his physical senses, bumptiously declares there is nothing more to know! Manly Hall
ignorance priorities disease
My top most priority is to deal with India's massive social and economic problems, so that chronic poverty, ignorance and disease can be conquered in a reasonably short period of time. Manmohan Singh
ignorance simple hug
Much that we hug today as knowledge is ignorance pure and simple. It makes the mind wander and even reduces it to a vacuity. Mahatma Gandhi
ignorance law atoms
We are less than atoms, I say, because the atom obeys the law of its being, whereas we in the insolence of our ignorance deny the law of nature. But I have no argument to address to those who have no faith.
ignorance sky size
The length of sky is just about the size of my ignorance. Pure and wide. Louise Erdrich
ignorance religious-truth corruption
Ecclesiastical establishments tend to great ignorance and corruption James Madison
ignorance forever
Knowledge will forever govern ignorance.
ignorance mean earth
There are, however, some potentates I would kill by any and all means at my disposal. They are Ignorance, Superstition, and Bigotry — the most sinister and tyrannical rulers on earth. Emma Goldman
ignorance men primitive-man
The conception of gods originated in fear and curiosity. Primitive man, unable to understand the phenomena of nature, and harassed by them, saw in every terrifying manifestation some sinister force expressly directed against him; and as ignorance and fear are the parents of all superstition, the troubled fancy of primitive man wove the God idea.
ignorance humanity atheism
The worker who knows the cause of his misery, who understands the make-up of our iniquitous social and industrial system can do more for himself and his kind than Christ and the followers of Christ have ever done for humanity; certainly more than meek patience, ignorance, and submission have done.
ignorance mean men
No revolution can ever succeed as a factor of liberation unless the MEANS used to further it be identical in spirit and tendency with the PURPOSES to be achieved. Revolution is the negation of the existing, a violent protest against man's inhumanity to man with all the thousand and one slaveries it involves. It is the destroyer of dominant values upon which a complex system of injustice, oppression, and wrong has been built up by ignorance and brutality. It is the herald of NEW VALUES, ushering in a transformation of the basic relations of man to man, and of man to society.
ignorance reality men
The State has no more existence than gods and devils have. They are equally the reflex and creation of man, for man, the individual, is the only reality. The State is but the shadow of man, the shadow of his opaqueness, of his ignorance and fear.
ignorance writing long
There's a lot of ignorance about how long it takes to write a novel. There's a lot of ignorance about how long a novel is in your head before you start to write it. John Irving
ignorance soul way
Perhaps, thought Talon, there was a path in between. A way to shed their ignorance without losing their souls. Neal Shusterman
ignorance media share
The media no longer ask those who know something to share that knowledge with the public. Instead they ask those who know nothing to represent the ignorance of the public and, in so doing, to legitimate it. Serge Daney
ignorance people different
Debate doesn’t really change things. It gets you bogged in deeper. If you can address or reopen the subject with something new, something from a different angle, then there is some hope. ... People are suddenly gazing at something else and pausing for a moment. And for the duration of that gaze and pause, they are like reflectors of the totality of their own knowledge and/or ignorance. That’s something poetry can do for you, it can entrance you for a moment above the pool of your own consciousness and your own possibilities. Seamus Heaney
ignorance world eating
One of the most irresponsible things we can do is eat in ignorance, without any awareness of what our eating is doing to the world or to other species. Michael Pollan
ignorance ignorant way
Being # IGNORANT is not so much a SHAME, as being UNWILLING to LEARN to do things THE # RIGHT WAY. Shiv Khera
ignorance reality limits
Nothing limits intelligence more than ignorance; nothing fosters ignorance more than one's own opinions; nothing strengthens opinions more than refusing to look at reality. Sheri S. Tepper
ignorance knowledge envy
Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be sin to know, Can it be death? And do they only stand By ignorance? Is that their happy state, The proof of their obedience and their faith? O fair foundation laid whereon to build Their ruin! John Milton
ignorance sight light
Tis the most certain sign, the world's accurst That the best things corrupted, are the worst; 'Twas the corrupted Light of knowledge, hurl'd Sin, Death, and Ignorance o'er all the world; That Sun like this (from which our sight we have) Gaz'd on too long, resumes the light he gave. John Denham
ignorance divine-will divine
Faith consists, not in ignorance, but in knowledge, and that, not only of God, but also of the divine will. John Calvin
ignorance expression names
The idea of protoplasm, which was really a name for our ignorance, [is] only a little less misleading than the expression "Vital force". John B. S. Haldane
ignorance names ideas
It was a reaction from the old idea of "protoplasm", a name which was a mere repository of ignorance.
ignorance science hands
There's a great difference between knowing that a thing is so, and knowing how to use that knowledge for the good of mankind. Thetrouble with a scientist is we quickly tire of our discoveries. We hand them over to people who are not ready for them, while we go off again into the darkness of ignorance, searching for other discoveries, which will be mishandled in just the same way when the time comes. Jimmy Sangster
ignorance matter taste
Taste is a matter of ignorance. If you know what you are tasting, you don't have to taste. Frank Lloyd Wright
ignorance ignorant reason
The reason there's so much ignorance is that those who have it are so eager to share it. Frank A. Clark
ignorance use shows
What the use of having ignorance if you can't show it? Lou Costello