Ignorance Quotes
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Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges.
Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould -
Ignorance is bliss. I wish I still had some.
Adam Pascal
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The true Wisdom is in recognizing our own ignorance.
Socrates -
As I have said before, the ever more sophisticated weapons piling up in the arsenals of the wealthiest and the mightiest can kill the illiterate, the ill, the poor and the hungry but they cannot kill ignorance, illnesses, poverty or hunger.
Fidel Castro -
There is but one evil, ignorance.
Socrates -
Religious moderation is the product of secular knowledge and scriptural ignorance.
Sam Harris -
The knowledge from an enlightened person breaks on the hard rocks of ignorance.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi -
I've wanted to be a writer since I was a boy, though it seemed an unlikely outcome since I showed no real talent. But I persevered and eventually found my own row to hoe. Ignorance of other writers' work keeps me from discouragement and I am less well-read than the average bus driver.
Garrison Keillor
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Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
William Shakespeare -
Simple ignorance has in its time been complimented by the names of most of the vices, and of all the virtues.
Philip James Bailey -
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
Confucius -
We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
Warren Weaver -
His ignorance is encyclopedic.
Abba Eban -
A person must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.
Charles Kettering
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Next to the ministry I know of no more noble profession than the law. The object aimed at is justice, equal and exact, and if it does not reach that end at once it is because the stream is diverted by selfishness or checked by ignorance. Its principles ennoble and its practice elevates.
William Jennings Bryan -
When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results.
Warren Buffett -
We venture to make the assertion that there is but one sin: IGNORANCE, and but one salvation: APPLIED KNOWLEDGE.
Max Heindel -
[For American consumer society], the country's reserves of ignorance constitute a natural resource as precious as the Mississippi River or the long-lost herds of buffalo.
Lewis H. Lapham -
The Islamic tradition does show some areas of apparent incompatibility with the goals of women in the West, and Muslims have a long way to go in their attitudes towards women. But blaming the religion is again to express an ignorance both of the religion and of the historical struggle for equality of women in Muslim societies.
Hamza Yusuf -
We are so proud of our guarantees of freedom in thought and speech and worship, that, unconsciously, we are guilty of one of the greatest errors that ignorance can make - we assume our standard of values is shared by all other humans in the world.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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The basic idea of karma is not punishment. Karma presents the opportunity for development; to make use of opportunities that were not taken advantage of, to fill in gaps of ignorance, to enlarge understanding through experience, to do what should be done.
Jane Roberts -
Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human.
Desiderius Erasmus -
Ignorance and prejudice make for bad advisers.
Samantha Power -
God's truth is helped by no man's ignorance.
Sabine Baring-Gould