Ignorance Quotes
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Ignorance breeds fear.
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Does religious conviction provide a powerful reason for killing? Undeniably it often does. It also often provides the sole compelling reason for refusing to kill, or for being merciful, or for seeking peace; only the profoundest ignorance of history could prevent one from recognizing this. For the truth is that religion and irreligion are cultural variables, but killing is a human constant.
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Development is only necessary to rectify the ignorance of designers
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Education, introspection, self-love and excellence are the only ways to overcome the wrath of ignorance
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Simblefield, whose ability to camouflage his ignorance was held in well-justified contempt by the rest of the form.
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Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.
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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.
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Your first book is kind of a labor of ignorance. You don't realize the difficulty of it. Your second book is sort of a labor of fear. Then you sort of either hit a stride, or you don't.
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Teachers must be celebrated for moving civilization from ignorance to enlightenment, from apathy to responsibility.
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Ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as well be. And I do not like feeling stupid.
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Stupid is a condition. Ignorance is a choice.
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Boredom comes simply from ignorance and lack of imagination.
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Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.
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A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance; but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books.
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There's nothing as safe as ignorance or as dangerous.
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One influential philosophical position about the use of probability in science holds that probabilities are objective only if they are based on micro-physics; all other probabilities should be interpreted subjectively, as merely revealing our ignorance about physical details. I have argued against this position, contending that the objectivity of micro-physical probabilities entails the objectivity of macro-probabilities.
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It's not a good thing to live with hatred, especially when it is born of ignorance.
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The charm of Ronald Reagan is not just that he kept telling us screwy things, it was that he believed them all. No wonder we trusted him, he never lied to us. ... His stubbornness, even defiance, in the face of facts ('stupid things,' he once called them in a memorable slip) was nothing short of splendid. ... This is the man who proved that ignorance is no handicap to the presidency.
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If you are kept in ignorance of the true way and permit yourself to rely upon and be guided by the opinion of imperfect man, you can never gain the riches that will bring you peace and lasting happiness.
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Prejudice is ignorance.
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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.
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Help and you will abolish apathy-the void that is so quickly filled by ignorance and evil.
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That the fundamental aspects of heredity should have turned out to be so extraordinarily simple supports us in the hope that nature may, after all, be entirely approachable. Her much-advertised inscrutability has once more been found to be an illusion due to our ignorance. This is encouraging, for, if the world in which we live were as complicated as some of our friends would have us believe we might well despair that biology could ever become an exact science.
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There is natural ignorance and there is artificial ignorance. I should say at the present moment the artificial ignorance is about eighty-five per cent.
