Quotes about ignorance
ignorance supposing-that people
Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it. Samuel Johnson
ignorance instruction delighted
We are more pained by ignorance than delighted by instruction.
ignorance men ignorant
The man who feels himself ignorant should, at least, be modest.
ignorance criminals
Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal.
ignorance evil may
Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal; and he may be properly charged with evil who refused to learn how he might prevent it.
ignorance men joy
One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge. Robert Staughton Lynd
ignorance doe economics
Why does a public discussion of economic policy so often show the abysmal ignorance of the participants? Robert Solow
ignorance practice missing
Current intelligence-testing practices require examinees to answer but not to pose questions. In requiring only the answering of questions, these tests are missing a vital half of intelligence- the asking of questions... Robert Sternberg
ignorance men hands
It is confidently expected that the period is at hand, when man, through ignorance, shall not much longer inflict unnecessary misery on man; because the mass of mankind will become enlightened, and will clearly discern that by so acting they will inevitably create misery to themselves. Robert Owen
ignorance class use
The working classes may be injuriously degraded and oppressed in three ways:1st - When they are neglected in infancy2nd - When they are overworked by their employer, and are thus rendered incompetent from ignorance to make a good use of high wages when they can procure them.3rd - When they are paid low wages for their labour
ignorance society may
Society may be formed so as to exist without crime, without poverty, with health greatly improved, with little, if any misery, and with intelligence and happiness increased a hundredfold; and no obstacle whatsoever intervenes at this moment except ignorance to prevent such a state of society from becoming universal.
ignorance men fire-burning
For life is a fire burning along a piece of string--or is it a fuse to a powder keg which we call God?--and the string is what we don't know, our Ignorance, and the trail of ash, which, if a gust of wind does not come, keeps the structure of the string, is History, man's Knowledge, but it is dead, and when the fire has burned up all the string, then man's Knowledge will be equal to God's Knowledge and there won't be any fire, which is Life. Or if the string leads to a powder keg, then there will be a terrific blast of fire, and even the trail of ash will be blown completely away. Robert Penn Warren
ignorance investing littles
Diversification is a protection against ignorance. It makes very little sense for those who know what they're doing. Warren Buffett
ignorance investing-money interesting
When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results.
ignorance cities names
Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance - nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city - as one loses oneself in a forest - that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest. Walter Benjamin
ignorance progress income
Organisation of social insurance should be treated as one part only of a comprehensive policy of social progress. Social insurance fully developed may provide income security; it is an attack upon Want. But Want is one only of five giants on the road of reconstruction and in some ways the easiest to attack. The others are Disease, Ignorance, Squalor and Idleness. William Beveridge
ignorance disease want
Want is one only of five giants on the road of reconstruction; the others are Disease, Ignorance, Squalor, and Idleness.
ignorance innocence
Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with ignorance... William Blake
ignorance appearance ifs
Ignorance, if recognized, is often more fruitful than the appearance of knowledge. Walker Percy
ignorance evil selfishness
The greatest slave is not he who is ruled by a despot, great though that evil be, but he who is in the thrall of his own moral ignorance, selfishness, and vice. Samuel Smiles
ignorance pride religion
Tis certain that Morality is an indispensable Requisite of true Religion, and there can be none without it. But it would become the Pride and Ignorance of Pagans only, to magnify it, as the Whole of what is necessary. Samuel Richardson
ignorance pretension preserves
One who preserves all the exterior decencies of ignorance. Samuel Foote
ignorance understanding ignorant
Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
ignorance rejection refuse
The ultimate ignorance is the rejection of something you know nothing about, yet refuse to investigate. Wayne Dyer
ignorance views essentials
We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance. Warren Weaver
ignorance world able
If I prove extravagant, I shall be more so from ignorance than willfulness. I am not wholly insensible to the pleasures of the world, therefore shall not be governed entirely by necessity; but I flatter myself, at least, in being able to restrain their gratification within due bonds. Washington Allston
ignorance sometimes perks-of-a-wallflower
It’s much easier not to know things sometimes. Stephen Chbosky
ignorance gun mind
Join me in standing up against any actual knowledge about guns. Let the CDC know they can take away our ignorance when the pry it from our cold dead minds. Stephen Colbert
ignorance writing thinking
Everybody gets told to write about what they know. The trouble with many of us is that at the earlier stages of life we think we know everything- or to put it more usefully, we are often unaware of the scope and structure of our ignorance. Thomas Pynchon
ignorance learning half
Half-knowledge is worse than ignorance. Thomas B. Macaulay
ignorance men law
Ignorance of the law is no good excuse, where every man is bound to take notice of the laws to which he is subject. Thomas Hobbes
ignorance men talking
Opinion of ghosts, ignorance of second causes, devotion to what men fear, and talking of things casual for prognostics, consisteth the natural seeds of religion
ignorance men two
When it happeneth that a man signifieth unto us two contradictory opinions whereof the one is clearly and directly signified, andthe other either drawn from that by consequence, or not known to be contradictory to it; then (when he is not present to explicate himself better) we are to take the former of his opinions; for that is clearly signified to be his, and directly, whereas the other might proceed from error in the deduction, or ignorance of the repugnancy.