Ignorance Quotes
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The happiness even of the naturalist depends in some measure upon his ignorance, which still leaves him new worlds of this kind to conquer. He may have reached the very Z of knowledge in the books, but he still feels half ignorant until he has confirmed each bright particular with his eyes.
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From ignorance our comfort flows.The only wretched are the wise.
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I do not believe 'Newsweek' is the only catcher in the rye between democracy and ignorance, but I think we're one of them, and I don't think there are that many on the edge of that cliff.
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There's a lot of ignorance about how long it takes to write a novel. There's a lot of ignorance about how long a novel is in your head before you start to write it.
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Eavesdropping's a sin, but ignorance is fatal. Take your pick.
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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 you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn.
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The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
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Evil is relatively rare. Ignorance is epidemic.
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The right to a quality education is, I believe, the perfect path to bridge the gap between different cultures and to reconcile various civilizations. Without such a right, the values of liberty, justice and equality will have no meaning. Ignorance is by far the biggest danger and threat to humankind.
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I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance.
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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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The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.
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Talk faith. The world is better off without, Your uttered ignorance and morbid doubt.
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He skates saucily over great tracts of confessed ignorance.
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There is no sin but ignorance.
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You can't mastermind everything. You'll go crazy. Just show up and play.
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One of the reasons for conspiracy theories is an assumption that people in high places always know what they are doing. When they do something that makes no sense, devious reasons are imagined by conspiracy theorists, when in fact it may be due to plain old ignorance and incompetence.
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The only victories which leave no regret are those which are gained over ignorance.
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To argue that the gaps in knowledge which confront the seeker must be filled, not by patient inquiry, but by intuition or revelation, is simply to give ignorance a gratuitous and preposterous dignity.
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If your little savage were left to himself and be allowed to retain all his ignorance, he would in time join the infant’s reasoning to the grown man’s passion, he would strangle his father and sleep with his mother.
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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.
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Much of our ignorance is of ourselves. Our eyes are full of dust. Prejudice blinds us.
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Unlike Agents Vann and Shane here, who are being wholly disingenuous, you might be speaking out of genuine ignorance and not just your usual levels of casual obstructionism.
