Ignorance Quotes
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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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Someone once said that the most important knowledge is knowledge of our own ignorance. Our schools are depriving millions of students of that kind of knowledge by promoting "self-esteem" and encouraging them to have opinions on things of which they are grossly ignorant, if not misinformed.
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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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“human capacity for arrogance was only exceeded by its capacity for ignorance.”
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The one Reality takes manifold names and forms as a result of human ignorance.
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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.
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We're just very belligerent, and I'm not trying to put Americans down, by and large I think we're nice people, but we operate with the information we're given and we are limited by the ignorance that is kind of injected into the media and into the TV shows.
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To remove ignorance is an important branch of benevolence.
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Prejudice is ignorance.
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Every optimist moves along with progress and hastens it, while every pessimist would keep the worlds at a standstill. The consequence of pessimism in the life of a nation is the same as in the life of the individual. Pessimism kills the instinct that urges men to struggle against poverty, ignorance and crime, and dries up all the fountains of joy in the world.
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To act without clear understanding, to form habits without investigation, to follow a path all one's life without knowing where it really leads; such is the behavior of the multitude.
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Ignorance is pitiful! If you are ignorant and stupid, you are sick - white, black, green, I don't care.
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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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Men remain in ignorance as long as they hate, and they hate unjustly as long as they remain in 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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It is a mistake always to contemplate the good and ignore the evil, because by making people neglectful it lets in disaster. There is a dangerous optimism of ignorance and indifference.
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It is ignorance that causes most mistakes.
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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.
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Science is a contemplative possession of reality through exclusion of all illusion, error and ignorance.
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Ridiculous modes, invented by ignorance, and adopted by folly.
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Stupid is a condition. Ignorance is a choice.
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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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Development is only necessary to rectify the ignorance of designers
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Ignorance breeds fear. If you don't keep that fear in check, that fear will breed hatred. If you don't keep hatred in check it will breed destruction.
