Quotes about ignorance
ignorance army males
Armies are dependent on youthful male ignorance. Rita Mae Brown
ignorance thinking process
I really think that living is the process of going from complete certainty to complete ignorance. Richard Dreyfuss
ignorance discovery errors
For I found myself embarrassed with so many doubts and errors that it seemed to me that the effort to instruct myself had no effect other than th eincreasing discovery of my own ignorance Rene Descartes
ignorance religion atheism
Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved. Thucydides
ignorance light history
How strangely is antiquity treated! To answer some purposes it is spoken of as the times of darkness and ignorance, and to answer others, it is put for the light of the world. Thomas Paine
ignorance men ignorant
Ignorance is of a peculiar nature; once dispelled, it is impossible to reestablish it. It is not originally a thing of itself, but is only the absence of knowledge; and though man may be kept ignorant, he cannot be made ignorant.
ignorance crime duty
Where knowledge is a duty, ignorance is a crime.
ignorance dark boys
I remember, I remember The fir-trees dark and high; I used to think their slender tops Were close against the sky; It was a childish ignorance, But now 't is little joy To know I'm farther off from heaven Than when I was a boy. Thomas Hood
ignorance boys joy
It was a childish ignorance, But now 'tis little joy To know I'm further off from heaven Than when I was a boy.
ignorance twenties finals
Each such answer to the great question, invariably asserted by the followers of its propounder, if not by himself, to be complete and final, remains in high authority and esteem, it may be for one century, or it may be for twenty: but, as invariably, Time proves each reply to have been a mere approximation to the truth tolerable chiefly on account of the ignorance of those by whom it was accepted, and wholly intolerable when tested by the larger knowledge of their successors. Thomas Huxley
ignorance clouds shining
The spirit is smothered, as it were, by ignorance, but so soon as ignorance is destroyed, spirit shine forth, like the sun when released from clouds. Thomas Sankara
ignorance people enemy
The enemies of a people are those who keep them in ignorance.
ignorance talking people
Of all ignorance, the ignorance of the educated is the most dangerous. Not only are educated people likely to have more influence, they are the last people to suspect that they don't know what they are talking about when they go outside their narrow fields. Thomas Sowell
ignorance stills
Credentialed ignorance is still ignorance.
ignorance government law
People who know nothing about advertising, nothing about pharmaceuticals, and nothing about economics have been loudly proclaiming that the drug companies spend too much on advertising - and demanding that the government pass laws based on their ignorance.
ignorance college worry
In a democracy, we have always had to worry about the ignorance of the uneducated. Today we have to worry about the ignorance of people with college degrees.
ignorance average people
People who are very aware that they have more knowledge than the average person are often very unaware that they do not have one-tenth of the knowledge of all of the average persons put together. In this situation, for the intelligentsia to impose their notions on ordinary people is essentially to impose ignorance on knowledge.
ignorance complexity seems
All that makes earlier times seem simpler is our ignorance of their complexities.
ignorance government people
One of the reasons for conspiracy theories is an assumption that people in high places always know what they are doing. When they do something that makes no sense, devious reasons are imagined by conspiracy theorists, when in fact it may be due to plain old ignorance and incompetence.
ignorance democracy rulership
The purpose of democracy - supplanting old belief in the necessary absoluteness of establish'd dynastic rulership, temporal, ecclesiastical, and scholastic, as furnishing the only security against chaos, crime, and ignorance - is, through many transmigrations, and amid endless ridicules, arguments, and ostensible failures Walt Whitman
ignorance opinion bernard-shaw
Concerning no subject would [George Bernard] Shaw be deterred by the minor accident of total ignorance from penning a definitive opinion. Roger Scruton
ignorance moral splendid
...human beings are a species splendid in their array of moral equipment, tragic in their propensity to misuse it, and pathetic in their ignorance of the misuse. Robert Wright
ignorance
Ignorance can't be pardoned. Only cured. Robert Silverberg
ignorance tragedy complacency
The tragedy of ignorance is its complacency. Robert Quillen
ignorance defense suitable
Ignorance is not a suitable defense Roger Goodell
ignorance vaults
Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge... Samuel Taylor Coleridge
ignorance thinking circles
Whosoever shall look heedfully upon those who are eminent for their riches will not think their condition such as that he should hazard his quiet, and much less his virtue, to obtain it, for all that great wealth generally gives above a moderate fortune is more room for the freaks of caprice, and more privilege for ignorance and vice, a quicker succession of flatteries, and a larger circle of voluptuousness. Samuel Johnson
ignorance
Ignorance cannot always be inferred from inaccuracy; knowledge is not always present.
ignorance guilty crime
He that voluntarily continues in ignorance, is guilty of all the crimes which ignorance produces.
ignorance grieving knowing
Ignorance is mere privation by which nothing can be produced: it is a vacuity in which the soul sits motionless and torpid for want of attraction: and, without knowing why, we always rejoice when we learn, and grieve when we forget.
ignorance men race
There is a certain race of men that either imagine it their duty, or make it their amusement, to hinder the reception of every work of learning or genius, who stand as sentinels in the avenues of fame, and value themselves upon giving Ignorance and Envy the first notice of a prey.
ignorance knowledge quality
Persius has justly observed, that knowledge is nothing to him who is not known by others to possess it: to the scholar himself it is nothing with respect either to honour or advantage, for the world cannot reward those qualities which are concealed from it; with respect to others it is nothing, because it affords no help to ignorance or errour.
ignorance age scarcity
We live in an age of artificial scarcity, maintained by ignorance and fear. Robert Anton Wilson