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 -
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 -
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
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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 -
'I insist that my positive knowledge, however small, is not to be set aside for the gentleman's ignorance, however great.'
Leonard Bacon -
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
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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 -
Our great struggle in medicine these days is not just with ignorance and uncertainty. It's also with complexity: how much you have to make sure you have in your head and think about. There are a thousand ways things can go wrong.
Atul Gawande -
There is a profound hypocrisy - and deep historical ignorance - when Europeans complain about the problems posed by the ethnic and religious minorities in their midst, for that is exactly what European colonial rule meant for peoples around the world.
Martin Jacques -
So far as I know, there were no pains taken to preserve secrecy on this subject; that is, I saw no attempt made to keep any of the inmates of the Convent in ignorance of the murder of children.
Maria Monk
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Condemnation before investigation is the highest form of ignorance.
Albert Einstein -
Out of the guys, I'm closest to Matthew Perry. He's a great friend. He cracks me up[on the set].
Courteney Cox -
The funny thing about any cop uniform is that people will do what you say when you're wearing a cop uniform.
Jay Chandrasekhar -
Why would you watch an Oscar-nominated film unless you're mad enough to purposely experience feelings? Bleh. I'm not interested in catching those.
Katherine Ryan -
Ignorance is jealousy's twin sister.
Dean Frazer