Quotes about ignorance
ignorance slavery form
Ignorance is the worst form of slavery. (Paraphrased) Robert Green Ingersoll
ignorance men moral
A man is not moral because he is obedient through fear or ignorance. Morality lives in the realm of perceived obligation...
ignorance simple understood
No one infers a god from the simple, from the known, from what is understood, but from the complex, from the unknown, and incomprehensible. Our ignorance is God; what we know is science.
ignorance men atheism
But honest men do not pretend to know; they are candid and sincere; they love the truth; they admit their ignorance, and they say, We do not know.
ignorance miracle religion
Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows.
ignorance sin greater
There is no sin greater than ignorance. Rudyard Kipling
ignorance issues community
Where LGBT and mental health issues collide is over stigma. And stigma is society's problem not the problem of the LGBT or mental health community. What we have to deal with is the ignorance, fear and prejudice that blight the lives of those who have nothing wrong with them in any moral or transgressive sense. It is society that is ill. Stephen Fry
ignorance people world
If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy people in the world?
ignorance light sri-lanka
India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight, that life cannot be rightly seen in the sole light, cannot be perfectly lived in the sole power of its externalities. Sri Aurobindo
ignorance ignorant stills
It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance. St. Jerome
ignorance self play
Each human being can at once be a fighter and forgiver. When self-doubt tortures him, he most play the role of a fighter. And when his own ignorance humiliates him, he must play the role of a forgiver. Sri Chinmoy
ignorance knowledge trying
Do not try to entrap others with your haughty knowledge. To your wide surprise, they will entrap you with their lengthy ignorance.
ignorance littles virtue
Ignorance has its virtues; without it there'd be mighty little conversation. Sophia Loren
ignorance responsibility opportunity
Crimes increase as education, opportunity, and property decrease. Whatever spreads ignorance, poverty and, discontent causes crime.... Criminals have their own responsibility, their own share of guilt, but they are merely the hand.... Whoever interferes with equal rights and equal opportunities is in somereal degree, responsible for the crimes committed in the community. Rutherford B. Hayes
ignorance littles dangerous
A little learning is a dangerous thing but none at all is fatal. Roger Bacon
ignorance learning science
Neglect of mathematics work injury to all knowledge, since he who is ignorant of it cannot know the other sciences or things of this world. And what is worst, those who are thus ignorant are unable to perceive their own ignorance, and so do not seek a remedy.
ignorance prejudice four
There are four chief obstacles in grasping truth ... namely, submission to faulty and unworthy authority, influence of custom, popular prejudice, and the concealment of our own ignorance accompanied by an ostentatious display of our knowledge.
ignorance science intelligent
In no other field of scientific endeavor do otherwise intelligent people feel free to make public claims based on prejudice and ignorance. Yet in relation to psychic phenomena, committed materialists feel free to disregard the evidence and behave irrationally and unscientifically, while claiming to speak in the name of science and reason. They abuse the authority of science and bring rationalism into disrepute. Rupert Sheldrake
ignorance talking champion
Liberals sit from this lofty perch of pomposity, but they are the champions of ignorance. They don't know what they're talking about. Rush Limbaugh
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 order years
The general impression is that fifteen year-old Dolly remains morbidly uninterested in sexual matters, or to be exact, represses her curiosity in order to save her ignorance and self-dignity. Vladimir Nabokov
ignorance greatness jazz
Jazz music celebrates life! Human life; the range of it, the absurdity of it, the ignorance of it, the greatness of it, the intelligence of it, the sexuality of it, the profundity of it. And it deals with it. In all of its... It deals with it! Wynton Marsalis
ignorance diagnosis beats
To confess ignorance is often wiser than to beat about the bush with a hypothetical diagnosis. William Osler
ignorance humility pride
Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire. William Penn