Ignorance Quotes
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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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...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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(...) who is he that is not 'he' because of an idiot's ignorance?
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Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.
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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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An ignorance of Marx is as frequent among Marxists as an ignorance of Christ is among Catholics.
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It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile.
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Attainment is a poor measure of capacity, and ignorance no proof of defect.
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I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.
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Evil is relatively rare. Ignorance is epidemic.
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Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all.
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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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The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are all blindly adopted, the second willfully preferred.
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Just try to be yourself and resist complacency and ignorance. All you can do is work, work; work and be disciplined.
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Let's not be too rough on our own ignorance; it's what makes America great!
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A quality education grants us the ability to fight the war on ignorance and poverty.
Charles B. Rangel -
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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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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Of all the wastes of human ignorance perhaps the most extravagant and costly to human growth has been the waste of the distinctive powers of womanhood after the child-bearing age.
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So when you spot violence, or bigotry, or intolerance or fear or just garden-variety misogyny, hatred or ignorance, just look it in the eye and think, 'The good outnumber you, and we always will.'
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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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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
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Of all the frictional resistances, the one that most retards human movement is ignorance, what Buddha called 'the greatest evil in the world.' The friction which results from ignorance ... can be reduced only by the spread of knowledge and the unification of the heterogeneous elements of humanity. No effort could be better spent.
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If the Church is 'in Christ,' she is involved in mission. Her whole existence then has a missionary character. Her conduct as well as her words will convince the unbelievers and put their ignorance and stupidity to silence.
