Ignorance Quotes
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Genius is knowing to stay silent as others demonstrate their ignorance.
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All suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their happiness or satisfaction.
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If you think education is expensive, you should try ignorance
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Of all the frictional resistances, the one that most retards human movement is ignorance.
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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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To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.
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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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From ignorance our comfort flows.The only wretched are the wise.
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I am convinced that it is impossible to expound the methods of induction in a sound manner, without resting them upon the theory of probability. Perfect knowledge alone can give certainty, and in nature perfect knowledge would be infinite knowledge, which is clearly beyond our capacities. We have, therefore, to content ourselves with partial knowledge - knowledge mingled with ignorance, producing doubt.
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I happen to have worked with male directors who don't understand women at all. Not at all. I'm flabbergasted by their ignorance.
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The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
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Post or pillar. Since their ignorance prevents them from recognizing the vicious nature of their condition, they cannot discern even the tracks of a path to deliverance. Most beings live immersed in the enjoyment of sensual pleasures. Others, driven by the need for power, status, and esteem, pass their lives in vain attempts to fill an unquenchable thirst. Many, fearful of annihilation at death, construct belief systems that ascribe to their individual selves, their souls, the prospect of eternal life. A few yearn for a path to liberation but do not know where to find one. It was precisely to offer such a path that the Buddha has appeared in our midst.
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There's a stupid trend in American politics right now with people who have no experience with politics and no grasp of public service as a profession just deciding that they're going to jump into it. The obvious figurehead of this whole "I am an idiot, therefore I can be a politician" is Donald Trump. People think that ignorance of a profession is somehow qualifying for that profession. It's utterly baffling.
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He skates saucily over great tracts of confessed ignorance.
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If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn.
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I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.
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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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I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance.
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My relationship with science is as someone who's curious and hungry to know, hungry to understand. So all I have to offer is my ignorance and my curiosity, which is a good combination, as long as they come together.
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France is no longer herself when she is folded in on herself, tormented by ignorance and intolerance. The country would plunge into decline if it refused to be itself, if it was afraid of the future, afraid of the world.
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But to live in ignorance on such a point was impossible.
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Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart.
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In a democracy, we have always had to worry about the ignorance of the uneducated. Today we have to worry about the ignorance of people with college degrees.
