Jean Toomer Quotes
The realization of ignorance is the first act of knowing.
Jean Toomer
Quotes to Explore
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The little I know I owe to my ignorance.
Sacha Guitry
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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
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Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
H. L. Mencken
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We all wish to live. We all seek a world in which men are freed of the burdens of ignorance, poverty, hunger and disease. And we shall all be hard-pressed to escape the deadly rain of nuclear fall-out should catastrophe overtake us.
Haile Selassie
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Ignorance of the facts of life gave me my beloved son, Dickon, but at what cost to both him and me, I cannot hazard a guess.
Kate O'Mara
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Most Muslim women know it is fear and curiosity that cause people to stare. They know it is ignorance and stereotypes that cause people to suppose that a piece of material covering the hair strips a woman of the ability to speak English, pursue a career, work a remote control.
Randa Abdel-Fattah
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Knowledge leads to unity, but Ignorance to diversity. So long as God seems to be outside and far away, there is ignorance. But when God is realised within, that is true knowledge.
Ramakrishna
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Meditate upon the Knowledge and Bliss Eternal, and you will also have bliss. The Bliss indeed is eternal, only it is covered and obscured by ignorance. The less your attachment is towards the senses, the more will be your love towards God.
Ramakrishna
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Knowledge leads to unity, and Ignorance to diversity.
Ramakrishna
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There Poetry shall tune her sacred voice,And wake from ignorance the Western World.
Samuel Johnson
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Personal relations are the important thing for ever and ever and not this outer life of telegrams and anger.
E. M. Forster
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Vietnam is about halfway around the world from Washington. It's as large as the major European nations, with nearly 130,000 square miles... Its ancient recorded history goes back to 111 B.C... We entered (that country) with considerable ignorance.
Barry Goldwater
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History, the winnowing wind, never halts. We see the chaff rise, forget the waiting grain, seed of the future, fallen to the threshing floor. We never learn, but live on, slit-narrow, as if our living were a pencil line traced upon paper, behaving as trapped denizens of a flat world hemmed in by the bigoted horizon of our own making. Yet the meaning of living is a pushing back, a pulling down of the great walls and domes of fear and ignorance, is relinquishing the nest for the sky, ignorance for understanding. The look back is also a look forward.
Han Suyin
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It’s really sad the fact that I even have to answers these questions. The fact that I have to feel as if I have to prove myself because every single part of me is being questioned. Just because I feel there’s a lot of ignorance when it comes to Afro-Latinos.
Amara La Negra
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It is the dim haze of mystery that adds enchantment to pursuit.
Antoine Rivarol
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$100,000 donors buy access to Congress and the White House. We believe it's long past time to clean up Washington.
Bill Clinton
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The realization of ignorance is the first act of knowing.
Jean Toomer
