Ignorance Quotes
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Vietnam is about halfway around the world from Washington. It's as large as the major European nations, with nearly 130,000 square miles... Its ancient recorded history goes back to 111 B.C... We entered (that country) with considerable ignorance.
Barry Goldwater -
There are always some areas world history does not reach, zones of silence and undisturbed ignorance.
Fernand Braudel
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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.
Alek Wek -
Irrespective of doubts and convictions, and for the Infinite Love I bear for one and all, I continue to come as the Avatar, to be judged time and again by humanity in its ignorance, in order to help man distinguish the Real from the false.
Meher Baba -
Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.
Jeremy Bentham -
I don't think ignorance is a way that you gain distance on something.
Alice Sebold -
Our senses through ignorance of Reality, falsely tell us that what appears to be, is. FEAR = False Evidence Appearing Real.
Plutarch -
It is in his knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness, the high superiority which he holds over the other animals who inhabit the earth with him, and consequently no ignorance is probably without loss to him, no error without evil.
James Smithson
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People are supposed to fear the unknown, but ignorance is bliss when the knowledge is so damn frightening.
Laurell K. Hamilton -
All the Buddhas of all the ages have been telling you a very simple fact: Be - don't try to become. Within these two words - being and becoming, your whole life is contained. Being is enlightenment, becoming is ignorance.
Rajneesh -
Ignorance is never better than knowledge.
Enrico Fermi -
I always wrote with some kind of angle of ignorance. I didn't know what was right or wrong.
Tyler Joseph Twenty One Pilots -
Those feminists who say that masculinity is about men believing they can batter women display the deepest ignorance possible about men and masculinity.
Warren Farrell -
Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.
Francis of Assisi
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Ignorance, hatred and greed are killing nature.
Masanobu Fukuoka -
The film and media technology that's available today is going to be the most potent weapon in our arsenal in tackling ideological intolerance and ignorance, as well as the kind of fear and stereotyping that can dehumanize the others as the enemy, as being somehow less entitled to the privileges and the aspirations that we have.
Queen Noor of Jordan -
Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
Plato -
Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.
E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax -
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.
Val Kilmer -
It was easy to cover up ignorance by the mystical word 'intuition.'
Isaac Asimov
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The principles of justice are chosen behind a veil of ignorance.
John Rawls -
Thank you for your news, Princess. It is none of it happy, but only a fool desires cheerful ignorance and I try not to be a fool. That is my heaviest burden.
Tad Williams -
All comparisons between America's current place in the world and anything legitimately called an empire in the past reveal ignorance and confusion about any reasonable meaning of the concept empire, especially the comparison with the Roman Empire.
Donald Kagan -
Nyasaland was the perfect country for a volunteer. It was friendly and destitute; it was small and out-of-the-way. It had all of Africa's problems - poverty, ignorance, disease.
Paul Theroux