Ignorance Quotes
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Backward is just not a natural direction for Americans to look - historical ignorance remains a national characteristic.
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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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You see many stars in the sky at night, but not when the sun rises. Can you therefore say that there are no stars in the heavens during the day? O man, because you cannot find God in the days of your ignorance, say not that there is no God.
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You can only maintain your interest if you're travelling more in ignorance than knowledge.
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The insolence of the vulgar is in proportion to their ignorance. They treat everything with contempt which they do not understand.
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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.'
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I think unless the people are given information about what is happening to them, they will die in ignorance. And i think that's the big sin. I mean if there is such a thing as a sin, that's it, to destroy people and not have them have a clue about how this is happening.
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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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Most of the damage we cause to the planet is the result of our own ignorance.
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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.
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There are always some areas world history does not reach, zones of silence and undisturbed ignorance.
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The knowledge and reason speak, ignorance and error shout.
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There is no case where ignorance should be preferred to knowledge - especially if the knowledge is terrible.
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The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.
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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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It's ignorance, and it's upsetting. Look at the young; they have no idea how great this country is because they never have been outside of it.
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I think it is important to speak your mind. Tolerance of the ignorance sends the wrong message to kids.
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Nothing is more securely lodged than the ignorance of the experts.
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Our senses through ignorance of Reality, falsely tell us that what appears to be, is. FEAR = False Evidence Appearing Real.
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Ignorance is a kind of insanity in the human animal. People who delight in torturing defenseless children or tiny creatures are in reality insane. The terrible thing is that people who are madmen in private may wear a totally bland and innocent expression in public.
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Ignorance is never better than knowledge.
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No king or minister could have instructed Newton to discover the law of gravity, for they did not know and could not know that there was such a law to discover. No Treasury official told Fleming to discover penicillin. Nor was Rutherford instructed to split the atom by a certain date.
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Without [hope and] confidence in a cause, there is no action. Ignorance may be enlightened, superstition wiped out; intolerance may become tolerant, and hate be changed into love; ideas may be quickened, intelligence widened, and men's hearts may be ennobled; but from pessimism which can see nothing but gloomy visions nothing is to be expected.
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Ignorance is bliss as a writer, I think.
