Quotes about ignorance
ignorance simplicity mind
Perhaps it is not without reason that we attribute facility in belief and conviction to simplicity and ignorance; for it seems to me I once learned that belief was sort of an impression made on our mind, and that the softer it is the less resistant t. Michel de Montaigne
ignorance men pillow
Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
ignorance
Whoever will be cured of ignorance, let him confess it.
ignorance imagine judgment
Whoever will imagine a perpetual confession of ignorance, a judgment without leaning or inclination, on any occasion whatever, hasa conception of Pyrrhonism.
ignorance miracle agnostic
Miracles arise from our ignorance of nature, not from nature itself.
ignorance america patterns
We took advantage of [the Indians'] ignorance and inexperience to incline them the more easily toward treachery, lewdness, avarice, and every sort of inhumanity and cruelty, after the example and pattern of our ways.
ignorance long ignorant
What am I to choose? "Choose what you please, as long as you choose." There you have a foolish answer, which seems to be the outcome, however, of all Dogmatism, which will not allow us to be ignorant of that which we are ignorant.
ignorance agency criticism
Most criticism of advertising is written in ignorance of what actually happens inside these agencies. Michael Schudson
ignorance honor study
If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could to-day. Mark Twain
ignorance world bliss
If ignorance is bliss, why isn't the world happier?
ignorance race evil
It is in vain that we would circumscribe the power of one half of our race, and that half by far the most important and influential. If they exert it not for good, they will for evil; if they advance not knowledge, they will perpetuate ignorance. Let women stand where they may in the scale of improvement, their position decides that of the race. Frances Wright
ignorance blue giving
One of those flash epiphanies of travel, the realization that worlds you'd love vibrantly exist outside your ignorance of them. The vitality of many lives you know nothing about. The breeze lifting a blue curtain in a doorway billows just the same whether you are lucky enough to observe it or not. Travel gives such jolts. I could live in this town, so how is it that I've never been here before today? Frances Mayes
ignorance rights age
The foundation of our Empire was not laid in the gloomy age of Ignorance and Superstition, but at an Epoch when the rights of mankind were better understood and more clearly defined, than at any former period. George Washington
ignorance science facts
Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts. George Santayana
ignorance animal expression
The whole machinery of our intelligence, our general ideas and laws, fixed and external objects, principles, persons, and gods, are so many symbolic, algebraic expressions. They stand for experience; experience which we are incapable of retaining and surveying in its multitudinous immediacy. We should flounder hopelessly, like the animals, did we not keep ourselves afloat and direct our course by these intellectual devices. Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of fact.
ignorance two political
The two pillars of 'political correctness' are, a) willful ignorance, and b) a steadfast refusal to face the truth. George MacDonald Fraser
ignorance humanity imperfect
Ignorance, which is contented and clumsy, will produce what is imperfect, but not offensive. But ignorance dis contented and dexterous, learning what it cannot understand, and imitating what it cannot enjoy, produces the most loathsome forms of manufacture that can disgrace or mislead humanity. John Ruskin
ignorance light want
Ignorance of God and of ourselves is the great principle and cause of all our disquietments; and, this ariseth mostly not from want of light and instruction, but for want of consideration and application. John Owen
ignorance
Ignorance is better than knowledge misapplied. Norm MacDonald
ignorance ignorant vulgar
Whoever is ignorant is vulgar. Miguel de Cervantes
ignorance writing history
In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better. Edward de Bono
ignorance two scripture
Unfortunately, 19th-century scientists were just as ready to jump to the conclusion that any guess about nature was an obvious fact, as were 17th-century sectarians to jump to the conclusion that any guess about Scripture was the obvious explanation . . . . and this clumsy collision of two very impatient forms of ignorance was known as the quarrel of Science and Religion. Gilbert K. Chesterton
ignorance survival-skills skills
Elective ignorance was a great survival skill, perhaps the greatest. Jonathan Franzen
ignorance home color
So many people shy away from using color in their homes for fear of getting it wrong...But ignorance and fear are no reason to live in a bland box. Jonathan Adler
ignorance creative way
In fact, the only way to remain creative over time--to not be undone by our expertise--is to experiment with ignorance, to stare at things we don't fully understand. Jonah Lehrer
ignorance comfort
Don't censor yourself to comfort their ignorance. Jon Stewart
ignorance comfort
I’m not going to censor myself to comfort your ignorance
ignorance epidemics evil
Evil is relatively rare. Ignorance is epidemic.
ignorance people political
A political system seeking to function amongst ignorant, illiterate and barbaric people could have marvelous principles but could only succeed in being ignorant, illiterate and barbaric unless one addressed the people one by one and cured the ignorance, illiteracy and barbarism of each citizen. L. Ron Hubbard
ignorance knowledge men
Wonder [admiratio astonishment, marvel] is a kind of desire for knowledge. The situation arises when one sees an effect and does not know its cause, or when the cause of the particular effect is one that exceeds his power of understanding. Hence, wonder is a cause of pleasure insofar as there is annexed the hope of attaining understanding of that which one wants to know. ... For desire is especially aroused by the awareness of ignorance, and consequently a man takes the greatest pleasure in those things which he discovers for himself or learns from the ground up. Thomas Aquinas
ignorance animal greatness
It is on account neither of God's weakness nor ignorance that evil comes into the world, but rather it is due to the order of his wisdom and the greatness of his goodness that diverse grades of goodness occur in things, many of which would be lacking if no evil were permitted. Indeed, the good of patience would not exist without the evil of persecution; nor the good of preservation of life in a lion if not for the evil of the destruction of the animals on which it lives.
ignorance progress disability
His progress through life was hampered by his tremendous sense of his own ignorance, a disability which affects all too few. Terry Pratchett
ignorance knowing perspective
Humans see what they want to see. Rick Riordan