Ignorance Quotes
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Consciousness of myself, combined with complete ignorance of everything that does not fall within my sphere of thinking, is the most telling proof of my substantiality outside God, of my original existence
Moses Mendelssohn
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It's not a good thing to live with hatred, especially when it is born of ignorance.
Gaynor Arnold
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The moral views now associated in the secularist mind with superstition and ignorance in fact follow inexorably from a consistent application of the metaphysical ideas we’ve traced back through Aquinas and the other Scholastic thinkers to Plato and Aristotle, the very greatest of the Greek founders of the Western intellectual tradition.
Edward Feser
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Ignorance is the evil - knowledge will be the remedy. Knowledge not of what sort of beings we shall be hereafter, or what is beyond the skies, but a knowledge pertaining to terra firma, and we may have all the power, goodness and love that we have been taught belongs to God himself.
Ernestine Rose
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Education, introspection, self-love and excellence are the only ways to overcome the wrath of ignorance
Romany Malco
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Ignorance is pitiful! If you are ignorant and stupid, you are sick - white, black, green, I don't care.
Willie Wells
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Ignorance breeds fear.
Mike Wilson
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The question is asked in ignorance, by one who does not even know what can have led him to ask it.
Soren Kierkegaard
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If I prove extravagant, I shall be more so from ignorance than willfulness. I am not wholly insensible to the pleasures of the world, therefore shall not be governed entirely by necessity; but I flatter myself, at least, in being able to restrain their gratification within due bonds.
Washington Allston
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It is the opposite of ignorance—it is intellectual honesty: to be willing to accept reality and to call things what they are even when it is hard.
Todd Burpo
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The evil that is in the world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding.
Albert Camus
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Ignorance is better than knowledge misapplied.
Norm MacDonald
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Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.
Richard Feynman
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Where LGBT and mental health issues collide is over stigma. And stigma is society's problem not the problem of the LGBT or mental health community. What we have to deal with is the ignorance, fear and prejudice that blight the lives of those who have nothing wrong with them in any moral or transgressive sense. It is society that is ill.
Stephen Fry
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Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.
Stephen Covey
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All ignorance is the lack of love.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Over-diversification is a hedge for ignorance.
William J. O'Neil
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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
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The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.
Gerard De Nerval
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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
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Error is worse than ignorance.
Philip James Bailey
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All the borders in the world are man-made There are no borders, we are all hooked together. Everything is connected. There is no line of demarcation. We are hooked together like the colors of a rainbow, our problem is ignorance, we don't understand that.
Bob Proctor
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Stupid is a condition. Ignorance is a choice.
Wiley Miller
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Death falls heavily on that man who, known too well to others, dies in ignorance of himself.
Seneca the Younger