Ignorance Quotes
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Her least favorite thing: VOLUNTARY IGNORANCE
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In the soil of ignorance, fear can easily be sown.
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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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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.
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Prejudice is ignorance.
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Besides, love flourishes best in ignorance…or in absence.
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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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The truth is that our race survived ignorance; it is our scientific genius that will do us in.
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Development is only necessary to rectify the ignorance of designers
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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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The valuable attributes of research men are conscious ignorance and active curiosity.
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Faith is a term that makes ignorance sound like a virtue.
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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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A man is arrogant in proportion to his ignorance. Man's natural tendency is to egotism. Man, in his infancy of knowledge, thinks that all creation was formed for him.
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We took the traditional lands and smashed the traditional way of life. We brought the diseases and the alcohol. We committed the murders. We took the children from their mothers. We practised discrimination and exclusion. It was our ignorance and our prejudice. And our failure to imagine that these things could be done to us.
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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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The way in which we manage the business of getting and spending is closely tied to our personal philosophy of living. We begin to develop this philosophy long before we have our first dollar to spend; and unless we are thinking people, our attitude toward money management may continue through the years to be tinged with the ignorance and innocence of childhood.
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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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To conceal ignorance is to increase it. An honest confession of it, however, gives ground for the hope that it will diminish some day or the other.
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The disclosure of a new fact, the leap forward, the conquest over yesterday's ignorance, is an act not of reason but of imagination, of intuition.
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The innocence which is simply ignorance is not virtue.
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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.
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Each juggler should be trained in the ignorance of the laws of physics.
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The general impression is that fifteen year-old Dolly remains morbidly uninterested in sexual matters, or to be exact, represses her curiosity in order to save her ignorance and self-dignity.
