Ignorance Quotes
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What good are laws that cannot be read or understood, or a tongue that spews only hatred or ignorance? What good is the written word to an illiterate man?
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...not everyone is willing to defend a position of 'not knowing.' There is no virtue in ignorance for its own sake.
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Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug, but when it prescribes pills it may happen to do more harm.
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You grow up and recognise that in an educated, secular society, there's no excuse for ignorance. You have to recognise in yourself, and challenge yourself, that if you see racism or homophobia or misogyny in a secular society, as a member of that society, you should challenge it. You owe it to the betterment of society.
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The most violent element in society is ignorance.
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Literature creates a fraternity within human diversity and eclipses the frontiers erected among men and women by ignorance, ideologies, religions, languages, and stupidity.
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Depraved conscience turns out to be as different from genuine ignorance as it is from honest recognition.
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Well, now is the time to peel back the foreskin of misconception and apply the wire brush of enlightenment to this mass of sticky half-truths and lies. The truth hurts, but not as much as the consequences of willful ignorance.
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Ignorance, if recognized, is often more fruitful than the appearance of knowledge.
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Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery
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Study and research into truth often only serves to make us see by experience our natural ignorance.
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My boyhood life in New York City has impressed me with the popular ignorance and also with the great need of something better than local lore and weather proverbs.
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O Jesus, if I but considered attentively your immense solicitude for me, how greatly should I not excel in every virtue? Pardon me, O Jesus, so much carelessness, pardon such great ignorance. My God, Jesus my Love, Increated Goodness, what would have become of me if you had not drawn me to yourself? Open your heart to me, open to me your sacramental breast; I open mine to you.
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Ignorance is the root cause of all difficulties.
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Of all the frictional resistances, the one that most retards human movement is ignorance.
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Most Americans are close to total ignorance about the world. They are ignorant. That is an unhealthy condition in a country in which foreign policy has to be endorsed by the people if it is to be pursued. And it makes it much more difficult for any president to pursue an intelligent policy that does justice to the complexity of the world.
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If you have attained something, this is the surest proof that you have gone astray. Therefore, not to have is to have, silence is thunder, ignorance is enlightenment.
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Is it ignorance or apathy? Hey, I don't know and I don't care.
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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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All this misjudgment that we have of each other is based on ignorance. The second you get to travel, you see that human beings, no matter where they come from, they are the same.
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I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.
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I despise people who revel in the ignorance of not being able to play their instrument.
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How the city attracts all types and how the unwary must suffer from ignorance of its ways.
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We are ignorant of what it is we do not know even though we know more than we can ever say
