Ignorance Quotes
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Most of the damage we cause to the planet is the result of our own ignorance.
Yvon Chouinard
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Want is one only of five giants on the road of reconstruction; the others are Disease, Ignorance, Squalor, and Idleness.
William Beveridge
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Ignorance and obscurantism have never produced anything other than flocks of slaves for tyranny.
Emiliano Zapata
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Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.
Saint Teresa of Avila
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Pride comes from not knowing yourself and the world. The older you grow, and the more you see, the less reason you will find for being proud. Ignorance and inexperience are the pedestal of pride; once the pedestal is removed - pride will soon come down.
J. C. Ryle
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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.
Louis L'Amour
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There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this.
Rudyard Kipling
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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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'I insist that my positive knowledge, however small, is not to be set aside for the gentleman's ignorance, however great.'
Leonard Bacon
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The darkest thing about Africa has always been our ignorance of it.
George C. Kimble
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Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.
Plato
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With attention deficit democracy, I am trying to wake up people to how the combination of mass ignorance, fear mongering by the government, and lying politicians is putting our entire system of government to a death spiral.
James Bovard
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'God's plan' is often a front for men's plans and a cover for inadequacy, ignorance, and evil.
Mary Daly
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Bits of ignorance are like viruses that are copied and spread by interaction.
Seth Lloyd
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The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Nothing is more securely lodged than the ignorance of the experts.
Friedrich August von Hayek
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In friendship, as in love, we are often happier through our ignorance than our knowledge.
William Shakespeare
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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
