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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Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.
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There are always some areas world history does not reach, zones of silence and undisturbed ignorance.
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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 insolence of the vulgar is in proportion to their ignorance. They treat everything with contempt which they do not understand.
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The darkest thing about Africa has always been our ignorance of it.
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The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.
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Ignorance breeds fear; the more you learn about your subject, the less fear it holds for you.
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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 think it is important to speak your mind. Tolerance of the ignorance sends the wrong message to kids.
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'God's plan' is often a front for men's plans and a cover for inadequacy, ignorance, and evil.
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Ignorance is never better than knowledge.
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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.
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There Poetry shall tune her sacred voice,And wake from ignorance the Western World.
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Ignorance is bliss as a writer, I think.
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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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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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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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The confidence of ignorance will always overcome the indecision of 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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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.
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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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I believe every change any word has undergone probably originated in ignorance.
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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.
