Ignorance Quotes
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Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
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Awareness of ignorance is the beginning of wisdom.
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Ours may become the first civilization destroyed, not by the power of our enemies, but by the ignorance of our teachers and the dangerous nonsense they are teaching our children. In an age of artificial intelligence, they are creating artificial stupidity.
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Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
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Fear is the only true enemy, born of ignorance and the parent of anger and hate.
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Never underestimate your own ignorance.
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If ignorance is bliss, then knock the smile off my face.
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Wonder at the first sight of works of art may be the effect of ignorance and novelty; but real admiration and permanent delight in them are the growth of taste and knowledge.
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In the age of information, ignorance is a choice.
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Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.
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It is debatable which is causing us more harm - hot-headed ignorance or cold-hearted intellectualism.
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Condemnation before investigation is the highest form of ignorance.
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Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.
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Unfortunately there was one thing that the white South feared more than Negro dishonesty, ignorance, and incompetency, and that was Negro honesty, knowledge, and efficiency.
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Knowledge is not happiness, and science But an exchange of ignorance for that Which is another kind of ignorance.
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Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human.
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From the union of power and money, from the union of power and secrecy, from the union of government and science, from the union of government and art, from the union of science and money, from the union of ambition and ignorance, from the union of genius and war, from the union of outer space and inner vacuity, the Mad Farmer walks quietly away.
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I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.
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We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.
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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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We receive the truths of science by compulsion. Nothing but ignorance is able to resist them.
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Racism springs from ignorance.
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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.
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'Misunderstanding of the present is the inevitable consequence of ignorance of the past. But a man may wear himself out just as fruitlessly in seeking to understand the past, if he is totally ignorant of the present...This faculty of understanding the living is, in very truth, the master quality of the historian.'
