Quotes about ignorance
ignorance boredom bored
Boredom comes simply from ignorance and lack of imagination. Susan Ertz
ignorance knowledge fate
A knowledge of history as detailed as possible is essential if we are to comprehend the present and be prepared for the future. Fate...is not the blind superstition or helplessness that waits stupidly for what may happen. Fate is unalterable only in the sense that given a cause, a certain result must follow, but no cause is inevitable in itself, and man can shape his world if he does not resign himself to ignorance. Pearl S. Buck
ignorance roots causes
At the root of all the harm we cause is ignorance. Pema Chodron
ignorance thinking sight
I think it's perfectly possible to explain how the universe came about without bringing God into it, but I don't know everything, and there may well be a God somewhere, hiding away. Actually, if he is keeping out of sight, it's because he's ashamed of his followers and all the cruelty and ignorance they're responsible for promoting in his name. If I were him, I'd want nothing to do with them. Philip Pullman
ignorance historical progress
What blinds us, or what makes historical progress very difficult, is our lack of awareness of our ignorance. Terence McKenna
ignorance knowledge men
It is a mischievous notion that we are come late into nature; that the world was finished a long time ago. As the world was plastic and fluid in the hands of God, so it is ever to so much of his attributes as we bring to it. To ignorance and sin, it is flint. They adapt to themselves to it as they may; but in proportion as a man has anything in him divine, the firmament flows before him and takes his signet and form. Ralph Waldo Emerson
ignorance home political
Most Americans have never seen the ignorance, degradation, hunger, sickness, and futility in which many other Americans live...They won't become involved in economic or political change until something brings the seriousness of the situation home to them. Shirley Chisholm
ignorance self boundaries
The self has no boundaries except those it accepts out of ignorance Seth
ignorance medicine doctors
The dilemma of modern medicine, and the underlying central flaw in medical education and, most of all, in the training of interns, is the irresistible drive to do something, anything. It is expected by patients and too often agreed to by their doctors, in the face of ignorance. Lewis Thomas
ignorance knowledge reality
It is not so bad being ignorant if you are totally ignorant; the hard thing is knowing in some detail the reality of ignorance...
ignorance science achievement
The greatest achievements in the science of this [twentieth] century are themselves the sources of more puzzlement than human beings have ever experienced. Indeed, it is likely that the twentieth century will be looked back at as the time when science provided the first close glimpse of the profundity of human ignorance. We have not reached solutions; we have only begun to discover how to ask questions.
ignorance discovery accomplishment
The greatest of all the accomplishments of 20th century science has been the discovery of human ignorance
ignorance science ignorant
The only solid piece of scientific truth about which I feel totally confident is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature... It is this sudden confrontation with the depth and scope of ignorance that represents the most significant contribution of twentieth-century science to the human intellect.
ignorance technology simple
But it is much later in the game now, and ignorance of the score is inexcusable. To be unaware that a technology comes equipped with a program for social change, to maintain that technology is neutral, to make the assumption that technology is always a friend to culture is, at this late hour, stupidity plain and simple. Neil Postman
ignorance space perspective
Space is as infinite as we can imagine, and expanding this perspective is what adjusts humankinds focus on conquering our true enemies, the formidable foes: ignorance and limitation. Vanna Bonta
ignorance enemy limitation
Our true enemies are: ignorance and limitation.
ignorance thinking facts
I probably complained more when I was younger. The movie industry can be frustrating but I think sometimes I could have been more helpful, approaching a film as a partnership rather than being critical of a director`s ignorance. I wasn`t sensitive to the fact that it`s very hard to direct. Val Kilmer
ignorance
His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read. V. S. Naipaul
ignorance limits path
My path to wisdom began when I stopped pretending to know things I didn't know. When I explicitly admitted to the limits of my knowledge, stopped building on ambiguity and ignorance, and instead realized that I knew nothing, not even the things I thought I knew. Tucker Max
ignorance men littles
Insults sting but a little when they stem from a man's ignorance. Susan Wiggs
ignorance people atheism
If any religion allows the persecution of the people of different faiths, if any religion keeps women in slavery, if any religion keeps people in ignorance, then I can't accept that religion. Taslima Nasrin
ignorance men evil
The curse of ignorance is that man without being good or evil is nevertheless satisfied with himself Sophocles
ignorance evil tough
Ignorance is a tough evil to conquer.
ignorance carpe-diem encyclopedia-britannica
Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica. Stephen Leacock
ignorance intellectual culture
Bloom never pissed me off because there are critics out there, and he's one of them, who take their ignorance about popular culture as a badge of intellectual prowess. Stephen King
ignorance college thinking
I'm an avid reader, and though it doesn't always work out in terms of relaxation, I've got to keep myself up to date with current affairs. I was a journalism student in college, and I don't feel like I can relax unless I feel informed. When people say they can't watch the news because it's too stressful, I just think, ignorance isn't bliss. It's just another way to procrastinate. Sophia Bush
ignorance self complacency
Self-complacency is the companion of ignorance. Solomon Schechter
ignorance ideas people
The whole idea of god is absurd. If anything, '2001' shows that what some people call 'god' is simply an acceptable term for their ignorance. What they don't understand, they call 'god' -Stanley Kubrick, interview, 1963 Stanley Kubrick
ignorance doe knows
The question is asked in ignorance, by one who does not even know what can have led him to ask it. Soren Kierkegaard
ignorance negativity individuality
Compared with the person who is conscious of his despair, the despairing individual who is ignorant of his despair is simply a negativity further away from the truth and deliverance. . . . Yet ignorance is so far from breaking the despair or changing despair to nondespairing that it can in fact be the most dangerous form of despair. . . . An individual is furthest from being conscious of himself as spirit when he is ignorant of being in despair. But precisely this-not to be conscious of oneself as spirit-is despair, which is spiritlessness. . . .
ignorance race genius
The truth is that our race survived ignorance; it is our scientific genius that will do us in. Stephen Vizinczey
ignorance world burden
Intelligence rules the world, ignorance carries the burden... Marcus Garvey
ignorance intelligent world
Never forget that intelligence rules the world and ignorance carries the burden. Therefore, remove yourself as far as possible from ignorance and seek as far as possible to be intelligent.