Quotes about ignorance
ignorance crime duty
Where knowledge is a duty, ignorance is a crime. Thomas Paine
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 leader darkness
If in the darkness of ignorance, you don’t recognize a person’s true nature, look to see whom he has chosen for his leader. Rumi
ignorance have-faith definitions
God is by definition the holder of all possible knowledge, it would be impossible for him to have faith in anything. Faith, then, is built upon ignorance and hope. Steve Allen
ignorance firsts steps
Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education. Stephen Covey
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
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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 army years
Hostile armies may face each other for years, striving for the victory which is decided in a single day. This being so, to remain in ignorance of the enemy's condition simply because one grudges the outlay of a hundred ounces of silver in honors and emoluments, is the height of inhumanity. Sun Tzu
ignorance knowledge men
Of power does Man possess no particle: Of knowledge-just so much as show that still It ends in ignorance on every side... Robert Browning
ignorance laughing special
Educationists are entertaining. We can always find a good laugh in their prose, with its special, ludicrous combination of ignorance and pretentiousness. Richard Mitchell
ignorance ideas silence
The endless cycle of idea and action, / Endless invention, endless experiment, / Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness; / Knowledge of speech, but not of silence; / Knowledge of words, and ignorance of The Word. T. S. Eliot
ignorance order way
To arrive where you are, to get from where you are not, You must go by a way wherein there is no ecstasy. In order to arrive at what you do not know You must go by a way which is the way of ignorance. In order to possess what you do not possess You must go by the way of dispossession. In order to arrive at what you are not You must go through the way in which you are not. And what you do not know is the only thing you know And what you own is what you do not own And where you are is where you are not.
ignorance dust ideas
The endless cycle of idea and action, Endless invention, endless experiment, Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness; Knowledge of speech, but not of silence; Knowledge of words, and ignorance of the Word. All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance, All our ignorance brings us nearer to death, But nearness to death no nearer to God. Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? The cycles of Heaven in twenty centuries Bring us farther from God and nearer to the Dust.
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All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance.
ignorance dangerous
Ignorance per se is not nearly as dangerous as ignorance of ignorance. Sydney J. Harris
ignorance charming
My ignorance is not charming. Susan Sontag
ignorance disease theory
Theories that diseases are caused by mental states and can be cured by will power, are always an index of how much is not understood about the physical terrain of a disease.
ignorance greek might
Unbelief, in distinction from disbelief, is a confession of ignorance where honest inquiry might easily find the truth. - "Agnostic" is but the Greek for "ignoramus." Tryon Edwards
ignorance names would-be
Mystery is but another name for ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain!
ignorance safe dangerous
There's nothing as safe as ignorance or as dangerous. Rex Stout
ignorance religion atheism
Ignorance worships mystery; reason explains it; the one grovels, the other soars. Robert Green Ingersoll
ignorance eden giving
Give me the storm and tempest of thought and action, rather than the dead calm of ignorance and faith! Banish me from Eden when you will; but first let me eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge!
ignorance slavery
There is no slavery but ignorance.
ignorance mean men
Crimes were committed to punish crimes, and crimes were committed to prevent crimes. The world has been filled with prisons and dungeons, with chains and whips, with crosses and gibbets, with thumbscrews and racks, with hangmen and heads-men — and yet these frightful means and instrumentalities have committed far more crimes than they have prevented.... Ignorance, filth, and poverty are the missionaries of crime. As long as dishonorable success outranks honest effort — as long as society bows and cringes before the great thieves, there will be little ones enough to fill the jails.
ignorance religion atheism
Fear paints pictures of ghosts and hangs them in the gallery of ignorance.
ignorance men law
All laws for the purpose of making man worship God, are born of the same spirit that kindled the fires of the auto da fe, and lovingly built the dungeons of the Inquisition. All laws defining and punishing blasphemy - making it a crime to give your honest ideas about the Bible, or to laugh at the ignorance of the ancient Jews, or to enjoy yourself on the Sabbath, or to give your opinion of Jehovah, were passed by impudent bigots, and should be at once repealed by honest men. An infinite God ought to be able to protect himself, without going in partnership with State Legislatures.