Ignorance Quotes
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Learn to differentiate between ignorance and stupidity.
Oscar Wilde -
Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges.
Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
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As I have said before, the ever more sophisticated weapons piling up in the arsenals of the wealthiest and the mightiest can kill the illiterate, the ill, the poor and the hungry but they cannot kill ignorance, illnesses, poverty or hunger.
Fidel Castro -
Simple ignorance has in its time been complimented by the names of most of the vices, and of all the virtues.
Philip James Bailey -
Ignorance is bliss. I wish I still had some.
Adam Pascal -
With Donald Trump as the presumptive presidential nominee, we are witnessing a populist hijacking of one of the United States' great political parties... Rooted in ignorance, prejudice, fear and isolationism... This troubles me deeply as a Republican, but it troubles me even more as an American.
Henry Paulson -
Religious moderation is the product of secular knowledge and scriptural ignorance.
Sam Harris -
There is but one evil, ignorance.
Socrates
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I've wanted to be a writer since I was a boy, though it seemed an unlikely outcome since I showed no real talent. But I persevered and eventually found my own row to hoe. Ignorance of other writers' work keeps me from discouragement and I am less well-read than the average bus driver.
Garrison Keillor -
The knowledge from an enlightened person breaks on the hard rocks of ignorance.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi -
The true Wisdom is in recognizing our own ignorance.
Socrates -
We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
Warren Weaver -
Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.
Margaret Atwood -
Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
William Shakespeare
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Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
Confucius -
His ignorance is encyclopedic.
Abba Eban -
The little I know I owe to my ignorance.
Sacha Guitry -
When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results.
Warren Buffett -
The Islamic tradition does show some areas of apparent incompatibility with the goals of women in the West, and Muslims have a long way to go in their attitudes towards women. But blaming the religion is again to express an ignorance both of the religion and of the historical struggle for equality of women in Muslim societies.
Hamza Yusuf -
Ignorance and prejudice make for bad advisers.
Samantha Power
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Republicans today have given the country conservatism in the spirit of Sarah Palin, whose ignorance about the world, contempt for expertise, and raw appeals to white identity politics presaged Trump's incendiary campaign.
George Packer -
God's truth is helped by no man's ignorance.
Sabine Baring-Gould -
A happy people I call them still, whose peace and genuine morals have not been contaminated with European vices; and whose errorsare only the errors of ignorance, and not the rooted depravity of a pretended civilization, and a spurious and mock Christianity.
J. G. Stedman -
[For American consumer society], the country's reserves of ignorance constitute a natural resource as precious as the Mississippi River or the long-lost herds of buffalo.
Lewis H. Lapham