Ignorance Quotes
-
I fear my ignorance.
Isaac Asimov -
Only thanks to blissful ignorance, and the inspiration of my grandparents' story, did I actually believe tackling a novel would be an easy task. I've since learned otherwise.
Kristina McMorris
-
Want is one only of five giants on the road of reconstruction; the others are Disease, Ignorance, Squalor, and Idleness.
William Beveridge -
I was a bad practicing physician because I was never sure of the diagnosis or of the treatment.
Joshua Lederberg -
Ignorance has always been the weapon of tyrants; enlightenment the salvation of the free.
Bill Richardson -
The only news most people ever hear about the inner city comes from grim headlines; the only residents they can name are characters on 'The Wire.' Of course, ignorance of a community doesn't stop outsiders from having opinions about it or passing laws that govern it.
James Forman, Jr. -
Our single greatest defense against scientific ignorance is education, and early in the life of every scientist, the child's first interest was sparked by a teacher.
Peter Agre -
Never let your persistence and passion turn into stubbornness and ignorance.
Anthony J. D'Angelo
-
Ignorance can be improved; willful ignorance and inaction is inexcusable.
David Brock -
The only enemy is ignorance. Peace, people. Let's get rid of all this nuclear testing.
Jon Bon Jovi -
The major threats to our survival no longer stem from nature without but from our own human nature within. It is our carelessness, our hostilities, our selfishness and pride and willful ignorance that endanger the world.
M. Scott Peck -
The problem with people who live in a world of speeches and books and theories is they don't know how to fix things in the real world when they go wrong. They feign ignorance, blame others, and make another eloquent speech.
Kathleen Troia McFarland -
You can rule ignorance; you can manipulate the illiterate; you can do whatever you want when a people are uneducated, so that goes in line with corrupt business and corrupt politics.
will.i.am -
Education today does not impart to the students the capacity or grit to face the challenges of daily life. The educational field has become the playing ground of ignorance.
Sai Baba
-
To avoid ignorance and bullying, I've had to hide the fact that I'm a troll. You have no idea how much time and money I've spent on electrolysis and hair dye and reconstructive surgery so I can look like this.
Jon Cryer -
Bits of ignorance are like viruses that are copied and spread by interaction.
Seth Lloyd -
When ignorant folks want to advertise their ignorance, you don't really have to do anything, you just let them talk.
Barack Obama -
I think it is important to speak your mind. Tolerance of the ignorance sends the wrong message to kids.
Marley Dias -
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 -
I am used to being places where I don't speak the language. What I am not used to is being in a part of a country where few people speak my language. Call it ignorance, arrogance, or what have you, but most places I have visited, I was lucky enough to be able to get by with English.
Lauren Gibbs
-
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 -
'God's plan' is often a front for men's plans and a cover for inadequacy, ignorance, and evil.
Mary Daly -
Fear and ignorance fuel so much homophobia.
David Furnish -
A play is made by sensing how the forces in life simulate ignorance - you set free the concealed irony, the deadly joke.
Arthur Miller