Ignorance Quotes
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I believe that ignorance is the root of all evil. And that no one knows the truth.
Molly Ivins
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If you think education is expensive, you should try ignorance
Brian Tracy
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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.
Tariq Ramadan
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Be ignorance thy choice, where knowledge leads to woe.
James Beattie
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Ignorance: the root of all evil.
Plato
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The bad one is that way because of the ignorance, therefore he can be healed with wisdom.
Socrates
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Organisation of social insurance should be treated as one part only of a comprehensive policy of social progress. Social insurance fully developed may provide income security; it is an attack upon Want. But Want is one only of five giants on the road of reconstruction and in some ways the easiest to attack. The others are Disease, Ignorance, Squalor and Idleness.
William Beveridge
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The principles of justice are chosen behind a veil of ignorance.
John Rawls
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Ignorance of the law is not a valid excuse for accused criminals, and it cannot be an excuse for members of Congress.
Paul Broun
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Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.
Francis of Assisi
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True science teaches us to doubt and to abstain from ignorance.
Claude Bernard
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I believe every change any word has undergone probably originated in ignorance.
Rita Mae Brown
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The problem with people who live in a world of speeches and books and theories is they don't know how to fix things in the real world when they go wrong. They feign ignorance, blame others, and make another eloquent speech.
Kathleen Troia McFarland
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Ignorance is the mother of all evils.
Francois Rabelais
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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.
Felice Picano
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Through ignorance, through faith, through intelligence, through trickery and cunning, through illumination, the reader rewrites the text with the same words of the original but under another heading, re-creating it, as it were, in the very act of bringing it into being.
Alberto Manguel
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Is it ignorance or apathy? Hey, I don't know and I don't care.
Jimmy Buffett
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It was easy to present figures demonstrating the contrast between lead work in the United States under conditions of neglect and ignorance, and comparable work in England and Germany, under intelligent control.
Alice Hamilton
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I remember, I remember The fir-trees dark and high; I used to think their slender tops Were close against the sky; It was a childish ignorance, But now 't is little joy To know I'm farther off from heaven Than when I was a boy.
Thomas Hood
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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
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The level of ignorance is declining, and the ability to accumulate data and manipulate it for various ends is increasing.
Bruce Sterling
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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.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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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
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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.
James Forman, Jr.