Dean Frazer Quotes

Ignorance is jealousy's twin sister.

Dean Frazer

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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
  • Knowledge
  • Control
  • Learning

• Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Wisdom
  • Democracy
  • Ignorance

• The knowledge from an enlightened person breaks on the hard rocks of ignorance.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Knowledge
  • Ignorance
  • Rocks

• 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
  • Time
  • Family
  • Sister

• His ignorance is encyclopedic.

  

  Abba Eban
  • Ignorance
  • His

• 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
  • God
  • Long
  • True

• There Poetry shall tune her sacred voice,And wake from ignorance the Western World.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • World
  • Poetry
  • Ignorance

• Selective ignorance, a cornerstone of child rearing. You don't put kids under surveillance: it might frighten you. Parents should sit tall in the saddle and look upon their troops with a noble and benevolent and extremely nearsighted gaze.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Kids
  • Parents
  • Ignorance

• Reading is the way out of ignorance, and the road to achievement.

  

  Ben Carson
  • Reading
  • Road
  • Ignorance

• Knowledge is not happiness, and science But an exchange of ignorance for that Which is another kind of ignorance.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Science
  • Knowledge
  • Ignorance

• 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
  • Home
  • Truth
  • Ignorance

• Mystery is delightful, but unscientific, since it depends upon ignorance.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Ignorance

• I am utterly convinced that Science and Peace will triumph over Ignorance and War, that nations will eventually unite not to destroy but to edify, and that the future will belong to those who have done the most for the sake of suffering humanity.

  

  Louis Pasteur
  • Done
  • War
  • Future

• 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!

  

  Arthur Miller
  • God
  • Men
  • Together

• Ignorance never settles a question.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli
  • Question
  • Ignorance

• 'I insist that my positive knowledge, however small, is not to be set aside for the gentleman's ignorance, however great.'

  

  Leonard Bacon
  • Great
  • Small
  • Knowledge

• Ignorance and bloodlust have a long tradition in the United States, especially in the red states.

  

  Jane Smiley
  • Long
  • Red
  • Ignorance

• 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
  • People
  • God
  • Live

• The humblest person in this world is the astrophysicist. Because we are face to face with our ignorance every single day.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • World
  • Single
  • Ignorance

• Maybe we try too hard to be remembered, waking to the glowing yellow disc in ignorance, swearing that today will be the day, today we will make something of our lives. what if we are so busy searching for worth that we miss the sapphire sky and cackling blackbird. what else is missing? maybe our steps are too straight and our paths too narrow and not overlapping. maybe when they overlap someone in another country lights a candle, a couple resolves their argument, a young man puts down his silver gun and walks away.

  

  Naomi Shihab Nye
  • Ignorance
  • Yellow
  • Disc

• When I came into politics I always thought there was a possibility I would be killed.

  

  Imran Khan
  • Always
  • Thought
  • Politics

• What is equality of rights between a giant and a dwarf?

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Equality
  • Giant
  • Dwarf

• There is more food in the world than we could possibly use. There's a huge surplus of food per capita, but it's locked away and rotting in the storehouses of the Western world, whereas in the East, in many parts of Africa, India and South America, people are starving to death. Millions of people are dying of starvation in a time in which there is a huge surplus of food.

  

  Benjamin Creme
  • Death
  • Food
  • Starvation

• Ignorance is jealousy's twin sister.

  

  Dean Frazer
  • Ignorance