Ignorance Quotes
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Attitudes toward gays have shifted much like they have for animals. People have a hard time relating to those who are different and often strike out against them in ignorance. But society is really starting to wise up at last as more enlightened generations emerge.
Dan Mathews
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Let's not be too rough on our own ignorance; it's what makes America great!
Frank Zappa
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The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.
Daniel J. Boorstin
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Evil is relatively rare. Ignorance is epidemic.
Jon Stewart
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It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
George Eliot
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There are petty-minded people who cannot endure to be reminded of their ignorance because, since they are usually quite blind to all things, quite foolish, and quite ignorant, they never question anything, and are persuaded that they see clearly what in fact they never see at all, save through the darkness of their own dispositions.
Madeleine de Souvre
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True deliverance of man is the deliverance from Avidya i.e. ignorance. It is not in destroying anything that is positive and real, for that cannot be possible, but that which is negative, which obstructs our vision of truth.
Rabindranath Tagore
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Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
Honore de Balzac
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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.
David Bosch
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Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.
Saadi
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How the city attracts all types and how the unwary must suffer from ignorance of its ways.
Cyprian Ekwensi
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It is ignorance that smothers, and it is carelessness that makes it invisible. The hunger of craving pollutes the world, and the pain of suffering causes the greatest fear.
Gautama Buddha
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The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
Bela Lugosi
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Blessed is the one who has arrived at infinite ignorance.
Evagrius Ponticus
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Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other.
James F. Cooper
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To say I'm ignorant only proves your ignorance.
Behdad Sami
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Ignorance, if recognized, is often more fruitful than the appearance of knowledge.
Walker Percy
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Racism is about education. Racism is ignorance.
Evonne Goolagong Cawley
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To be curious about that which is not one's concern while still in ignorance of oneself is ridiculous.
Plato
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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.
Raoul Peck
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In the scattered settlements of this Diocese, schools and Churches are of necessity for many years few in number, and multitudes of both sexes are growing up in great ignorance.
John Strachan
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People used to say, "Ignorance is no excuse." Today, ignorance is no problem. After all, you have "a right to your own opinion" - and self-esteem to boot.
Thomas Sowell
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It is better to confess ignorance than provide it.
Homer Hickam
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Ignorance is the root cause of all difficulties.
Plato