Ignorance Quotes
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Ignorance has always been the weapon of tyrants; enlightenment the salvation of the free.
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Aristocracy's only an admission that certain traits which we call fine - courage and honor and beauty and all that sort of thing - can best be developed in a favorable environment, where you don't have the warpings of ignorance and necessity.
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Doubt is the middle position between knowledge and ignorance. It encompasses cynicism but also genuine questioning.
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You can only maintain your interest if you're travelling more in ignorance than knowledge.
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What kind of scholar was I? Or was I a scholar at all? My ignorance was enormous. Beside it my knowledge was nothing. My hunger for learning, not so much to improve my lot as to understand my world, had led me to study and to thought. Reading without thinking is as nothing, for a book is less important for what it says than for what it makes you think.
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In friendship, as in love, we are often happier through our ignorance than our knowledge.
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Ignorance and confidence are constant companions.
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Ignorance has no beginning, but it has an end. There is a beginning but no end to knowledge.
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It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.
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Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.
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I don't even know where to start in terms of people having such an issue about color, especially being dark. I just think on different levels it's ignorance; it's no belief, no confidence, it's insecurity, so you want to inflict it on somebody else.
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I probably complained more when I was younger. The movie industry can be frustrating but I think sometimes I could have been more helpful, approaching a film as a partnership rather than being critical of a director's ignorance. I wasn't sensitive to the fact that it's very hard to direct.
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If novels and stories are bulletins from the progressive states of ignorance a writer passes through over the years, observations and opinions about horses are all the more so, since horses are more mysterious than life and harder to understand.
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Ignorance breeds antipathy. Until I got to know how computers worked, I didn't want anything to do with them. I said, 'Well, why do I need them? I write letters.' Which I still do.
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I’m not going to censor myself to comfort your ignorance.
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Never let your persistence and passion turn into stubbornness and ignorance.
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The attitude of foreign to English musicians is unsympathetic, self-opinionated and pedantic. They believe that their tradition is the only one (this is specially true of the Viennese) and that anything that is not in accordance with that tradition is 'wrong' and arises from insular ignorance.
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Bits of ignorance are like viruses that are copied and spread by interaction.
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Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.
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It has often and confidently been asserted, that man's origin can never be known: but ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
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There are always some areas world history does not reach, zones of silence and undisturbed ignorance.
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Want is one only of five giants on the road of reconstruction; the others are Disease, Ignorance, Squalor, and Idleness.
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I was heavily involved on all fronts: with mountaineering outfitters, who oddly enough never fathomed the depths of my ignorance; possibly because they couldn’t conceive of anyone acquiring such a collection of equipment without knowing how to use it…
