Quotes about ignorance
ignorance hypocrisy together
With a shiver of foreboding he saw his marriage becoming what most of the other marriages about him were: a dull association of material and social interests held together by ignorance on the one side and hypocrisy on the other. Edith Wharton
ignorance practice psychology
In practice, socialism didnt work. But socialism could never have worked because it is based on false premises about human psychology and society, and gross ignorance of human economy. David Horowitz
ignorance ants extensions
It's appropriate that the word 'ignorance' is an extension of the word 'ignore.' We ignore so much and so we become ignore-ant. David Icke
ignorance ignorant frightened
Zionism is a subject that all but a few are either too ignorant or too frightened to tackle and expose, but it must be made public and the web dismantled if global tyranny is to be avoided in the very near future.
ignorance men self
Racism is the ultimate ignorance in that it relates 'self' to the body instead of the Consciousness - Awareness - animating and experiencing through the body. It is like judging a man by his spacesuit instead of the person inside it.
ignorance pride together
Weakness, fear, melancholy, together with ignorance, are the true sources of superstition. Hope, pride, presumption, a warm indignation, together with ignorance, are the true sources of enthusiasm. David Hume
ignorance understanding obscurity
All that belongs to human understanding, in this deep ignorance and obscurity, is to be sceptical, or at least cautious, and not to admit of any hypothesis whatever, much less of any which is supported by no appearance of probability.
ignorance mean greatness
An ignorance of means may minister to greatness, but an ignorance of aims make it impossible to be great at all. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
ignorance fate soul
Three were the fates. Poverty that chains; gray drudgery that grinds the hope away, and gaping ignorance that starves the soul. Edwin Markham
ignorance tyranny-founding-fathers tyranny
It is the religion of ignorance that tyranny begins. Benjamin Franklin
ignorance expensive
The only thing that is more expensive than education is ignorance.
ignorance simplicity crafts
By the word simplicity, is not always meant folly or ignorance; but often, pure and upright Nature, free from artifice, craft or deceitful ornament.
ignorance knowledge reflection
To inquisitive minds like yours and mine the reflection that the quantity of human knowledge bears no proportion to the quantity of human ignorance must be in one view rather pleasing, viz., that though we are to live forever we may be continually amused and delighted with learning something new.
ignorance literature study
His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge. Arthur Conan Doyle
ignorance matter stranger
I am now and have always been a stranger to the realm of practical matters. Anton Chekhov
ignorance admiration bases
Admiration is the basis of ignorance. Baltasar Gracian
ignorance would-be difficult
It would be difficult to dispel ignorance unless there is freedom to pursue the truth unfettered by fear. Aung San Suu Kyi
ignorance hiding peter
I'll show you how," Peter said. "Stop hiding behind your ignorance. Diana Wynne Jones
ignorance orthodoxy heresy
By identifying the new learning with heresy, you make orthodoxy synonymous with ignorance. Desiderius Erasmus
ignorance sleep night
Ignorance isn't bliss, but sometimes ignorance makes it possible for us to sleep at night. Dean Koontz
ignorance self law
Ignorance of the law of irreducibility was no excuse. I could no longer excuse myself with the claim that I didn't know the law -- for knowledge of self and of the world is the law that, even though unattainable, cannot be broken, and no one can excuse himself by saying that he doesn't know it. . . . The renewed originality of the sin is this: I have to carry out my unknowing, I shall be sinning originally against life. Clarice Lispector
ignorance people dying
It is bad enough that people are dying of AIDS, but no one should die of ignorance. Elizabeth Taylor
ignorance simple names
Simple ignorance has in its time been complimented by the names of most of the vices, and of all the virtues. Arthur Helps
ignorance foolishness
The apparent foolishness of others is but too frequently our own ignorance.
ignorance responsibility views
Everyone has a responsibility to not only tolerate another person's point of view, but also to accept it eagerly as a challenge to your own understanding. And express those challenges in terms of serving other people. Arlo Guthrie
ignorance learning fire
Learn to live, and live to learn, Ignorance like a fire doth burn, Little tasks make large return. Bayard Taylor
ignorance years ideas
The only truly new ideas [the right] has come up with in the last twenty years are (1) supply side economics, which is a way of redistributing the wealth upward toward those who already have more than they know what to do with, and (2) creationism, which is a parallel idea for redistributing ignorance out from its fundamentalist strongholds to those who know more than they need to. Barbara Ehrenreich
ignorance worry half
Worry is half impatience and half ignorance.
ignorance exhibits
To admit ignorance is to exhibit wisdom. Ashley Montagu
ignorance ignorant-masses numbers
Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything. Sydney Smith
ignorance loss roaring
Speculators often prosper through ignorance; it is a cliché that in a roaring bull market knowledge is superfluous and experience is a handicap. But the typical experience of the speculator is one of temporary profit and ultimate loss Benjamin Graham
ignorance home privacy
Privacy under what circumstance? Privacy at home under what circumstances? You have more privacy if everyone's illiterate, but you wouldn't really call that privacy. That's ignorance. Bruce Sterling
ignorance data levels
The level of ignorance is declining, and the ability to accumulate data and manipulate it for various ends is increasing.