Ignorance Quotes
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It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge.
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To Believe without evidence and demonstration is an act of ignorance and folly.
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Attainment is a poor measure of capacity, and ignorance no proof of defect.
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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.
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The only true conquests-those that awaken no regrets- are those obtained over our ignorance.
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Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?
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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.
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To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.
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Americans like to get rich fast. That this means we go broke fast, too, is something that we have become very good at forgetting. Our ignorance of history is matched only by our unfailing optimism; it's actually part of our optimism.
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The greatest impurity is ignorance. Free yourself from it. Be pure.
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Ignorance is the root cause of all difficulties.
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Eavesdropping's a sin, but ignorance is fatal. Take your pick.
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William Henry Flower the Anglican too praised evolution as a cleansing solvent, dissolving the dross which had 'encrusted' Christianity 'in the days of ignorance and superstition'.
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The historian ought to be the humblest of men; he is faced a dozen times a day with the evidence of his own ignorance; he is perpetually confronted with his own humiliating inability to interpret his material correctly; he is, in a sense that no other writer is, in bondage to that material.
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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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I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance.
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When you're fighting for social justice, one of my biggest pet peeves is speaking out of ignorance.
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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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The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.
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Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.
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The very thought of this Alaska garden is a joyful exhilaration. … Out of all the cold darkness and glacial crushing and grinding comes this warm, abounding beauty and life to teach us that what we in our faithless ignorance and fear call destruction is creation finer and finer.
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What is a child? Ignorance. What is a child? Want of instruction.
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You're afraid of making mistakes. Don't be. Mistakes can be profited by. Man, when I was young I shoved my ignorance in people's faces. They beat me with sticks. By the time I was forty my blunt instrument had been honed to a fine cutting point for me. If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn.
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Two Chinamen visiting Europe went to the theatre for the first time. One of them occupied himself with trying to understand the theatrical machinery, which he succeeded in doing. The other, despite his ignorance of the language, sought to unravel the meaning of the play. The former is like the astronomer, the latter the philosopher.
