Ignorance Quotes
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When a wise man does not understand, he says: 'I do not understand.' The fool and the uncultured are ashamed of their ignorance. They remain silent when a question could bring them wisdom.
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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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Nothing in medical literature today communicates the idea that women's bodies are well-designed for birth. Ignorance of the capacities of women's bodies can flourish and quickly spread into the popular culture when the medical profession is unable to distinguish between ancient wisdom and superstitious belief.
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The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian – ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.
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It was easy to cover up ignorance by the mystical word 'intuition.'
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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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True science teaches us to doubt and to abstain from 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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Prejudice is a product of ignorance that hides behind barriers of tradition.
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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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I think what a life in science really teaches you is the vastness of our ignorance.
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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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Ignorance, which is contented and clumsy, will produce what is imperfect, but not offensive. But ignorance discontented and dexterous, learning what it cannot understand, and imitating what it cannot enjoy, produces the most loathsome forms of manufacture that can disgrace or mislead humanity.
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The major threats to our survival no longer stem from nature without but from our own human nature within. It is our carelessness, our hostilities, our selfishness and pride and willful ignorance that endanger the world.
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Ignorance: the root of all evil.
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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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Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor 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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People are supposed to fear the unknown, but ignorance is bliss when the knowledge is so damn frightening.
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Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with ignorance.
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I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation.
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Be ignorance thy choice, where knowledge leads to woe.
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There are many causes why a people politically ignorant cannot be roused to action. Perfect political ignorance must be accompanied by indifference to the general interests of society, and thus one of the most powerful motives which can act on the human mind is totally destroyed.
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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.
