Ignorance Quotes
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Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.
William Ellery Channing -
Racism is a sign of ignorance, in my opinion. It's people who haven't been anywhere, haven't seen the world.
Tyson Fury
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On the country has gathered the idea of a natural way of life: of peace, innocence, and simple virtue. On the city has gathered the idea of an achieved centre of learning, communication, light. Powerful hostile associations have also developed: on the city as a place of noise, worldliness and ambition; on the country as a place of backwardness, ignorance, limitation. A contrast between country and city, as fundamental ways of life, reaches back into classical times.
Raymond Williams -
To let God make us, instead of painfully trying to make ourselves; to follow the path that his love shows us, instead of through conceit or cowardice or mockery choosing another; to trust Him for our strength and fitness as the flowers do, simply giving ourselves back to Him in grateful service,—this is to keep the laws that give us the freedom of the city in which there is no longer any night of bewilderment or ignorance or uncertainty.
Sarah Orne Jewett -
I think that of all the diseases in the world, the disease that all humankind suffers from, the disease that is most devastating to us is not AIDS, it's not gluttony, it's not cancer, it's not any of those things. It is the disease that comes about because we live in ignorance of the wealth of love that God has for us.
Rich Mullins -
Is it not ignorance that we share? A lie takes two. The truth we find alone.
Anthony Marais -
All our ignorance brings us closer to death.
George Eliot -
Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
George Eliot
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Meditation brings wisdom; lack of meditation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.
Gautama Buddha -
If in the darkness of ignorance, you don’t recognize a person’s true nature, look to see whom he has chosen for his leader.
Rumi -
Man often acquires just so much knowledge as to discover his ignorance, and attains so much experience as to regret his follies, and then dies.
William Benton Clulow -
The combination of fear and ignorance (two sides of the same coin) can be paralyzing.
Seth Godin -
The apparent foolishness of others is but too frequently our own ignorance.
Arthur Helps -
Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.
Heraclitus
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The notion that better engineering can solve all our problems is rooted in an ignorance of non-linear systems and selective/wishful thinking.
Charles Hugh Smith -
It's appropriate that the word 'ignorance' is an extension of the word 'ignore.' We ignore so much and so we become ignore-ant.
David Icke -
Education is a system of imposed ignorance.
Noam Chomsky -
“human capacity for arrogance was only exceeded by its capacity for ignorance.”
Ashok K. Banker -
The wise man will not pardon any crime that ought to be punished, but he will accomplish, in a nobler way, all that is sought in pardoning. He will spare some and watch over some, because of their youth, and others on account of their ignorance. His clemency will not fall short of justice, but will fulfill it perfectly.
Seneca the Younger -
When you're fighting for social justice, one of my biggest pet peeves is speaking out of ignorance.
Eva Longoria
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Insults sting but a little when they stem from a man's ignorance.
Susan Wiggs -
There is no sinfulness in the will and affections without some error in the understanding. All lusts which a natural man lives in, are lusts of ignorance.
George Gillespie -
Herein is the evil of ignorance, that he who is neither good nor wise is nevertheless satisfied with himself: he had no desire for that of which he feels no want.
Plato -
If ignorance were enough to make things not exist, the world would be more like a lot of people think it is. But it's not. And it's not.
William Gibson