Ignorance Quotes
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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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Gross ignorance is 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance.
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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 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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All around me insisted that my doubts proved only my own ignorance and sinfulness; that they knew by experience they would soon give place to true knowledge, and an advance in religion; and I felt something like indecision.
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The intellectuals' chief cause of anguish are one another's works. Jacques Barzun, 1959 all ignorance toboggans into know and trudges up to ignorance again.
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Silence is the only answer you should give to the fools. Where ignorance speaks, intelligence should not give advices.
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It was easy to cover up ignorance by the mystical word 'intuition.'
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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.
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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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Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.
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Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with ignorance.
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Scientific men can hardly escape the charge of ignorance with regard to the precise effect of the impact of modern science upon the mode of living of the people and upon their civilisation.
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Fear tends to come from ignorance. Once I knew what the problem was, it was just a problem, nothing to fear.
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The level of ignorance is declining, and the ability to accumulate data and manipulate it for various ends is increasing.
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Part of our job, together, is to work to reject such extremism that infects too many of our young people. Part of that effort must be a continued rejection by Muslims of those who distort Islam to preach intolerance and promote violence, and it must also a rejection by non-Muslims of the ignorance that equates Islam with terror.
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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.
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I have been judged to be a pessimist but what abyss of ignorance and low egoism is not hidden in one who thinks that Man is the god of himself and that his future can only be triumphant?
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The nice thing about having a brain is that one can learn, that ignorance can be supplanted by knowledge, and that small bits of knowledge can gradually pile up into substantial heaps.
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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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For it was my master who taught me not only how very little I knew but also that any wisdom to which I might ever aspire could consist only in realizing more fully the infinity of my 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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I come armed with a really good ignorance. I don't strive toward ignorance. I come by it naturally.
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And I realized a wondrous truth: that knowledge could be our treasure, that there were things humankind knew that we did not, that our conquest need not comprise taking and killing, but could consist of our mutual conquest of ignorance and distrust.
