Quotes about ignorance
ignorance subjects
Ignorance breeds fear; the more you learn about your subject, the less fear it holds for you. Brian Tracy
ignorance thinking trying
If you think education is expensive, you should try ignorance
ignorance circles drawing
So long as we continued to attach more importance to our own narrow group membership than to the 'global village' we would propagate prejudice and ignorance. There was absolutely no harm in being part of a small group - indeed, with our hunter-gatherer band mentality it gave comfort, provided us with an inner circle of friends who could be utterly trusted, who were absolutely reliable. It helped give us peace of mind. The danger came only from drawing that sharp line, digging that ditch, laying that minefield, between our own group and any other group that thought differently. Jane Goodall
ignorance government ignorant
If the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) raises the hackles of the conspiracy theorists, the Bilderberg meetings must induce apocalyptic visions of omnipotent international bankers plotting with unscrupulous government officials to impose cunning schemes on an ignorant and unsuspecting world. David Rockefeller
ignorance past roles
Populists and isolationists ignore the tangible benefits that have resulted from our active international role during the past half-century.
ignorance men numbers
Society is composed of men, and every man is a FREE agent. Since man is free, he can choose; since he can choose, he can err; since he can err, he can suffer. I go further: He must err and he must suffer; for his starting point is ignorance, and in his ignorance he sees before him an infinite number of unknown roads, all of which save one lead to error. Frederic Bastiat
ignorance thinking cost
If you think the cost of education is high, think about ignorance. Derek Bok
ignorance understanding spheres
As the sphere of understanding grows ever larger, necessarily the surface area of ignorance gets ever bigger Dennis McKenna
ignorance light darkness
I always thought my questions were wrong questions because no one else asked them. Maybe no one thought of them. Maybe darkness got there first. Maybe I am the first light touching a gulf of ignorance... Maybe my questions matter. Elizabeth Moon
ignorance dark simple
There is simple ignorance, not knowing, and willful ignorance that refuses to know, that covers the light of knowledge with the dark blanket of bias.
ignorance sarcasm
His ignorance is encyclopedic. Abba Eban
ignorance progress too-much
Without knowledge there can be no sure progress. Vice and barbarism are the inseparable companions of ignorance. Nor is it too much to say that, except in rare instances, the highest virtue is attained only through intelligence. Charles Sumner
ignorance doe generations
It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous. Charles Dudley Warner
ignorance pride whole-family
The whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other Charles Caleb Colton
ignorance errors steps
Error, when she retraces her steps, has farther to go before she can arrive at truth than ignorance.
ignorance pride thinking
It is with nations as with individuals, those who know the least of others think the highest of themselves; for the whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other.
ignorance vices principles
Women who are the least bashful are not unfrequently the most modest; and we are never more deceived than when we would infer any laxity of principle from that freedom of demeanor which often arises from a total ignorance of vice.
ignorance pedants disgusting
Folly disgusts us less by her ignorance than pedantry by her learning.
ignorance knowledge men
A man who knows the world will not only make the most of everything he does know, but of many things he does not know, and will gain more credit by his adroit mode of hiding his ignorance than the pedant by his awkward attempt to exhibit his erudition.
ignorance dwelling-place darkness
Darkness is the fit hour for beasts of prey, and ignorance the natural dwelling place of cruelty. Charles Spurgeon
ignorance sky knowing
The Tao belongs neither to knowing nor not knowing. Knowing is false understanding; not knowing is blind ignorance. If you really understand the Tao beyond doubt, it's like the empty sky. Why drag in right and wrong? Alan Watts
ignorance reality expectations
Regulators have not been able to achieve the level of future clarity required to act pre-emptively. The problem is not lack of regulation but unrealistic expectations. What we confront in reality is uncertainty, some of it frighteningly so ... Alan Greenspan
ignorance
Greenspan, who knew so much more than most, knew far less than most supposed ...
ignorance long curiosity
My relationship with science is as someone who's curious and hungry to know, hungry to understand. So all I have to offer is my ignorance and my curiosity, which is a good combination, as long as they come together. Alan Alda
ignorance long-ago giving
For myself, I long ago decided that I would rather know the truth than be happy in ignorance. If I can not have both truth and happiness, give me truth. We’ll have a long time to be happy in heaven. Aiden Wilson Tozer
ignorance army years
The most basic barrier was language itself, very few Americans in Iraq whether soldiers or diplomats or news paper reporters could speak more than a few words of Arabic. A remarkable number of them didn't even have translators. That meant for many Iraqis the typical 19 year old army corporal from South Dakota was not a youthful innocent carrying Americas good will, he was a terrifying combination of firepower and ignorance. Dexter Filkins
ignorance extinction bliss
When it comes to impending, unavoidable extinction, ignorance is bliss. Darren Shan
ignorance want mist
I lament the want of a liberal education. I feel the mist of ignorance to surround me - Nathanael Greene David McCullough
ignorance greed
I don't like greed, I don't like ignorance. I really don't like anger. But I love love. David Crosby
ignorance thinking ideas
If we humans are good at anything, it’s thinking we’ve got a terrific idea and going for it without acknowledging the potential consequences or our own ignorance. David Suzuki
ignorance people lust
History is full of people who out of fear, or ignorance, or lust for power has destroyed knowledge of immeasurable value which truly belongs to us all. We must not let it happen again. Carl Sagan
ignorance media pseudoscience
The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.
ignorance america decay
The dumbing down of America is evident in the slow decay of substantive content, a kind of celebration of ignorance.