Ignorance Quotes
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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.
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Ignorance is always afraid of change.
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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
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My ignorance is widespread.
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I could never accept findings based almost exclusively on mathematics. It ain't ignorance that causes all the trouble in this world. It's the things people know that ain't so.
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Doubt is the middle position between knowledge and ignorance. It encompasses cynicism but also genuine questioning.
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In practice, socialism didn't work. But socialism could never have worked because it is based on false premises about human psychology and society, and gross ignorance of human economy.
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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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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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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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All you've got to do is own up to your ignorance honestly, and you'll find people who are eager to fill your head with information.
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Ignorance is never better than knowledge.
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Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.
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There are always some areas world history does not reach, zones of silence and undisturbed ignorance.
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Ignorance and confidence are constant companions.
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Would-be novelists need to bring equal parts arrogance and ignorance to the task before them. The arrogance is almost self-explanatory. Walk into any bookstore or library, calculate how many lifetimes the average person would need to read all the fiction contained therein. To think that one has anything to contribute, to any genre or tradition, takes genuine hubris.
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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 it is important to speak your mind. Tolerance of the ignorance sends the wrong message to kids.
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Religion and science have a common ancestor - ignorance.
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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.
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Indeed, the most important product of knowledge is ignorance.
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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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Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.
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Men who can both be right and sit tight are uncommon. I found it one of the hardest things to learn. But it is only after a stock operator has firmly grasped this that he can make big money. It is literally true that millions come easier to a trader after he knows how to trade than hundreds did in the days of his ignorance.
