Ignorance Quotes
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It was easy to cover up ignorance by the mystical word 'intuition.'
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Prejudice is a product of ignorance that hides behind barriers of tradition.
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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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I always wrote with some kind of angle of ignorance. I didn't know what was right or wrong.
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I think that a good person can sometimes do wrong out of ignorance or weakness or wrong thinking, but when hard times come, the goodness wins out after all. And a bad person can often seem good and trustworthy for a long time, but when hard times come, the evil in him gets revealed.
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There are some of us who in after years say to Fate, 'Now deal us your hardest blow, give us what you will; but let us never again suffer as we suffered when we were children.' The barb in the arrow of childhood's suffering is this: its intense loneliness, its intense ignorance.
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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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Once a man criticized my desire for knowledge by saying that it was not fitting for a woman to possess learning because there was so little of it. I replied that it was even less fitting for a man to possess ignorance because there was so much of it.
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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.
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Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.
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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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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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It is among uneducated women that we may look for the most confirmed gossips. Goethe tells us there is nothing more frightful than bustling ignorance.
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The reason there's so much ignorance is that those who have it are so eager to share it.
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As far as ignorance is concerned, not just Buddhism, every religion recognizes it as the source of suffering.
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The humblest person in this world is the astrophysicist. Because we are face to face with our ignorance every single day.
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Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.
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The bad one is that way because of the ignorance, therefore he can be healed with wisdom.
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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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It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine.
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On our plane knowledge and ignorance are the immemorial adversaries.
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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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The level of ignorance is declining, and the ability to accumulate data and manipulate it for various ends is increasing.
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The bondage we are born into is the bondage we cannot see. Verily, freedom is little more than the ignorance of tyranny. Live long enough, and you will see: Men resent not the whip so much as the hand that wields it.
