Ignorance Quotes
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Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
H. L. Mencken -
Awareness of ignorance is the beginning of wisdom.
Socrates
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Never underestimate your own ignorance.
Albert Einstein -
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
W. Clement Stone -
Fear is the only true enemy, born of ignorance and the parent of anger and hate.
Edward Albert -
If ignorance is bliss, then knock the smile off my face.
Zack de la Rocha Rage Against the Machine -
Ours may become the first civilization destroyed, not by the power of our enemies, but by the ignorance of our teachers and the dangerous nonsense they are teaching our children. In an age of artificial intelligence, they are creating artificial stupidity.
Thomas Sowell -
Wonder at the first sight of works of art may be the effect of ignorance and novelty; but real admiration and permanent delight in them are the growth of taste and knowledge.
William Hazlitt
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In the age of information, ignorance is a choice.
Donald Miller -
Condemnation before investigation is the highest form of ignorance.
Albert Einstein -
We receive the truths of science by compulsion. Nothing but ignorance is able to resist them.
Chauncey Wright -
Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.
Dalai Lama -
It is debatable which is causing us more harm - hot-headed ignorance or cold-hearted intellectualism.
Vance Havner -
I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.
Oscar Wilde
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Unfortunately there was one thing that the white South feared more than Negro dishonesty, ignorance, and incompetency, and that was Negro honesty, knowledge, and efficiency.
W. E. B. Du Bois -
Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.
George Eliot -
Admitting one's ignorance is the first step in acquiring knowledge.
Socrates -
We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.
Maya Angelou -
I am utterly convinced that Science and Peace will triumph over Ignorance and War, that nations will eventually unite not to destroy but to edify, and that the future will belong to those who have done the most for the sake of suffering humanity.
Louis Pasteur -
True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.
Karl Popper
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Yes I know my enemies. They're the teachers who taught me to fight me, compromise, conformity, assimilation, submission, ignorance, hypocrisy, brutality, the elite, all of which are American dreams.
Zack de la Rocha Rage Against the Machine -
He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge; and one only evil, namely, ignorance.
Socrates -
It is chiefly, I regret to say, through journalism that such people find expression. I regret it because there is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
Oscar Wilde -
Knowledge is not happiness, and science But an exchange of ignorance for that Which is another kind of ignorance.
Lord Byron