Ignorance Quotes
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Now if you will stop here and ask yourself why you are not as pious as the primitive Christians were, your own heart will tell you that it is neither through ignorance nor inability, but purely because you never thoroughly intended it.
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The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.
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My songs is hard stuff which politicians don't want on them radio station because they still want people to live in ignorancy.
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Our ignorance is not so vast as our failure to use what we know.
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Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.
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We thought the Internet would enlighten everyone, but it's given everyone access to more ignorance, and given ignorant people an opportunity to organize themselves and congregate.
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An ignorance of Marx is as frequent among Marxists as an ignorance of Christ is among Catholics.
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(...) who is he that is not 'he' because of an idiot's ignorance?
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All I really know is the extent of my own ignorance.
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If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy people in the world?
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Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.
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William Henry Flower the Anglican too praised evolution as a cleansing solvent, dissolving the dross which had 'encrusted' Christianity 'in the days of ignorance and superstition'.
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Only ignorance! only ignorance! how can you talk about only ignorance? Don't you know that it is the worst thing in the world, next to wickedness? -- and which does the most mischief heaven only knows. If people can say, `Oh! I did not know, I did not mean any harm,' they think it is all right.
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A quality education grants us the ability to fight the war on ignorance and poverty.
Charles B. Rangel
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From you, my dear Erasmus, let me obtain this request, that just as I bear with your ignorance in these matters, so you in turn will bear with my lack of eloquence.
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We have faith that future generations will know that here, in the middle of the twentieth century, there came a time when men of good will found a way to unite, and produce, and fight to destroy the forces of ignorance, and intolerance, and slavery, and war.
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If in the darkness of ignorance, you don’t recognize a person’s true nature, look to see whom he has chosen for his leader.
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From ignorance our comfort flows.The only wretched are the wise.
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This way of thinking allowed one to deploy the vocabularies of sixties radicalism—ecological awareness, anticorporate agitation, etc.—in order to justify the reproduction of social inequality. It allowed you to redescribe caring for your own genetic material—feeding Lucas the latest in coagulated soy juice—as altruism: it’s not just good for Lucas, it’s good for the planet. But from those who out of ignorance or desperation have allowed their children’s digestive tracts to know deep-fried, mechanically processed chicken, those who happen to be, in Brooklyn, disproportionately black and Latino, Lucas must be protected at whatever cost.
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After you've seen behind the facade of a stage set you can't take the play seriously any more. In other words, you can't go backwards and regain your ignorance, you have to move forward.
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I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.
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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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The only victories which leave no regret are those which are gained over ignorance.
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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
