Dean Frazer Quotes
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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.
Isaac Asimov -
Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
H. L. Mencken -
The knowledge from an enlightened person breaks on the hard rocks of ignorance.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi -
In my family, there was no celebration of ignorance. They'd come and see Chekhov or Shakespeare. I've got a sister who got a first in her degree. We don't sit around watching TV all the time.
Eddie Marsan -
His ignorance is encyclopedic.
Abba Eban -
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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There Poetry shall tune her sacred voice,And wake from ignorance the Western World.
Samuel Johnson -
Reading is the way out of ignorance, and the road to achievement.
Ben Carson -
Knowledge is not happiness, and science But an exchange of ignorance for that Which is another kind of ignorance.
Lord Byron -
If any man can convince me and bring home to me that I do not think or act aright, gladly will I change; for I search after truth, by which man never yet was harmed. But he is harmed who abideth on still in his deception and ignorance.
Marcus Aurelius -
Mystery is delightful, but unscientific, since it depends upon ignorance.
Bertrand Russell -
Ignorance never settles a question.
Benjamin Disraeli
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'I insist that my positive knowledge, however small, is not to be set aside for the gentleman's ignorance, however great.'
Leonard Bacon -
Ignorance and bloodlust have a long tradition in the United States, especially in the red states.
Jane Smiley -
Much of the impotence of American churches is tied to a profound ignorance and apathy about justification. Our people live in a fog of guilt. Or just as bad, they think being a better person is all God requires.
Kevin DeYoung -
Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.
Mary Astell -
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.
Daniel J. Boorstin -
The realization of ignorance is the first act of knowing.
Jean Toomer
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The corollary of constant change is ignorance. This is not often talked about: we computer experts barely know what we're doing. We're good at fussing and figuring out. We function well in a sea of unknowns. Our experience has only prepared us to deal with confusion. A programmer who denies this is probably lying, or else is densely unaware of himself.
Ellen Ullman -
Armies are dependent on youthful male ignorance.
Rita Mae Brown -
Freedom for me is the sacred right to think ... education is the fundamental part for social happiness: it is the principle on which liberty rests, and the growth of all towns.
Benito Juarez -
Ignorance is jealousy's twin sister.
Dean Frazer