Raoul Peck Quotes
I felt that the world, and in particular this country, were going in circles. What had happened 40 or 50 years ago was happening again, but even in a worse form - that we were sinking into a lot of ignorance and a lot of superficial change.

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Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.
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The little I know I owe to my ignorance.
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Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
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The knowledge from an enlightened person breaks on the hard rocks of ignorance.
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God's truth is helped by no man's ignorance.
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His ignorance is encyclopedic.
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The gifts given to us by God must not be relinquished to those who speak ill of them and who are moved by envy or ignorance.
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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.
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When an unbaked pot is broken, the potter can use the mud to make a new one; but when a baked one is broken, he cannot do the same any longer. So when a person dies in a state of ignorance, he is born again; but when he becomes well baked in the fire of true knowledge and dies a perfect man, he is not born again.
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If ignorance is bliss, then knock the smile off my face.
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Unreason is now ascendant in the United States-in our schools, in our courts, and in each branch of the federal government. Only 28 percent of Americans believe in evolution; 68 percent believe in Satan. Ignorance in this degree, concentrated in both the head and belly of a lumbering superpower, is now a problem for the entire world.
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A fire, a fire is burning! I hear the boot of Lucifer, I see his filthy face! And it is my face, and yours, Danforth! For them that quail to bring men out of ignorance, as I have quailed, and as you quail now when you know in all your black hearts that this be fraud - God damns our kind especially, and we will burn, we will burn together!
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Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.
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There is no case where ignorance should be preferred to knowledge - especially if the knowledge is terrible.
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Ignorance and bloodlust have a long tradition in the United States, especially in the red states.
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We receive the truths of science by compulsion. Nothing but ignorance is able to resist them.
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The humblest person in this world is the astrophysicist. Because we are face to face with our ignorance every single day.
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The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.
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The union of nature and soul removes the veil of ignorance that covers our intelligence.
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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.
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Where there is no knowledge ignorance calls itself science.
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Out of all the R&B artists that have come out, I think my name has been used most in hip-hop songs.
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For Tim Burton's birthday I gave him a rainbow beetle. He loved it!
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I felt that the world, and in particular this country, were going in circles. What had happened 40 or 50 years ago was happening again, but even in a worse form - that we were sinking into a lot of ignorance and a lot of superficial change.