Ignorance Quotes
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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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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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From the Zen view all beings are in the grip of the three poisons, greed, anger and delusion ignorance.
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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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A play is made by sensing how the forces in life simulate ignorance - you set free the concealed irony, the deadly joke.
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Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens.
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I was a bad practicing physician because I was never sure of the diagnosis or of the treatment.
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The Age of Information, Has turned out to be the Age of Ignorance.
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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.
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Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.
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Never let your persistence and passion turn into stubbornness and ignorance.
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The great majority of Americans do not know much about Islam but nonetheless fear it as violent, expansionist and alien to their society. The problem to overcome is not hatred, but ignorance.
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I don't even know where to start in terms of people having such an issue about color, especially being dark. I just think on different levels it's ignorance; it's no belief, no confidence, it's insecurity, so you want to inflict it on somebody else.
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To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise: for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For anything that men can tell, death may be the greatest good that can happen to them: but they fear it as if they knew quite well that it was the greatest of evils. And what is this but that shameful ignorance of thinking that we know what we do not know?
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Art hath an enemy call'd ignorance.
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Doubt is the middle position between knowledge and ignorance. It encompasses cynicism but also genuine questioning.
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I always wrote with some kind of angle of ignorance. I didn't know what was right or wrong.
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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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The prime goal of censorship is to promote ignorance, whether it is done via lying and bowdlerized school texts or by attacking individual books.
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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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The principles of justice are chosen behind a veil of ignorance.
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Creating a poem is a continual process of re-creating your ignorance, in the sense of not knowing what's coming next.
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Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.
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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.
