Ignorance Quotes
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A political system seeking to function amongst ignorant, illiterate and barbaric people could have marvelous principles but could only succeed in being ignorant, illiterate and barbaric unless one addressed the people one by one and cured the ignorance, illiteracy and barbarism of each citizen.
L. Ron Hubbard
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Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.
Baltasar Gracian
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I write to please myself—of course, that is a given. But beyond this reach for pleasure, I know that I write for my countrymen, that they may be lifted from apathy and ignorance. I write because of a compulsion to make something out of the nothing that is my own life.
F. Sionil José
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Out of ignorance and fear comes judgment and division.
David Furnish
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Though we do not have many poets, we certainly have more than we deserve, for we deserve none at all. It is ourselves that we are hurting by our stupidity and ignorance of poetry.
Elizabeth Janeway
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There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this.
Rudyard Kipling
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Mister Speaker, I am not able to understand the mental organization of the man who can consider this bill, and the subject of which it treats, as free from very great difficulties. He must be a man of very moderate abilities, whose ignorance is bliss, or a man of transcendent genius, whom no difficulties can daunt and whose clear vision no cloud can obscure.
James A. Garfield
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Hold back your mind from pride, for pride comes only from ignorance. The man who does not know thinks that he is great, that he has done this or that great thing; the wise man knows that only God is great, that all good work is done by God alone.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Only one who has learned much can fully appreciate his ignorance. He knows well the limits of his knowledge and how much is waiting to be learned.
Louis L'Amour
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My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.
Maya Angelou
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Ignorance is my least favorite thing. I really think it's at the core of all our problems.
Naomi Judd
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Expression without culture is flat. Many artists come out of art school and start doing things that don't last. They are audacious because of ignorance. They are irresponsible.
Fernando Botero
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David Eddings: I'm afraid that ignorance, hate, racism, and violence will be exacerbated by silence. If speaking out is not an answer then what is?Markus Persson: Reading up on history, thinking for yourself, and not being an idiot.
Markus Persson
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So much had been surrendered! And to such little purpose! There had been mad wilful rejections, monstrous forms of self-torture and self-denial, whose origin was fear and whose result was a degradation infinitely more terrible than that fancied degradation from which, in their ignorance, they had sought to escape.
Oscar Wilde
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Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate,Roll darkling down the torrent of his fate?
Samuel Johnson
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Envy comes from people's ignorance of, or lack of belief in, their own gifts.
Jean Vanier
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Ignorance has no beginning, but it has an end. There is a beginning but no end to knowledge.
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
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But this is not to say that the society which inflicts capital punishment commits murder. Murder is an offensive act. The term cannot be applied legitimately to any defensive act. And capital punishment, however ineffective it may be and through whatever ignorance it may be resorted to, is a strictly defensive act,-at least in theory.
Benjamin Tucker
