Ignorance Quotes
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Idealism, alas, does not protect one from ignorance, dogmatism, and foolishness.
Sidney Hook -
When a scientist doesn't know the answer to a problem, he is ignorant. When he has a hunch as to what the result is, he is uncertain. And when he is pretty darn sure of what the result is going to be, he is still in some doubt. We have found it of paramount importance that in order to progress we must recognize our ignorance and leave room for doubt. Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty - some most unsure, some nearly sure, but none absolutely certain.
Richard Feynman
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Ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as well be. And I do not like feeling stupid.
Lois McMaster -
In the schoolroom her quick mind had taken readily that strong starch of unexplained rules and disconnected facts which saves ignorance from any painful sense of limpness.
George Eliot -
It is very unfair in any writer to employ ignorance and malice together, because it gives his answerer double work.
Jonathan Swift -
Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.
Stephen Covey -
For me, 9/11 was a game changer. It altered my perception of the security threat we faced. I took the position that Britain should be shoulder to shoulder with the U.S. It was a big decision; I didn't take it lightly, or in ignorance of its consequences. It's a big commitment for a country to give, but I believed it was the right thing to do.
Tony Blair -
There is a danger, increasingly, that we're in a post-fact society where it seems my ignorance is as good as your facts.
Nick Sagan
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Science is a contemplative possession of reality through exclusion of all illusion, error and ignorance.
Georges Canguilhem -
It is ignorance that causes most mistakes.
Harry S Truman -
You're afraid of making mistakes. Don't be. Mistakes can be profited by. Man, when I was young I shoved my ignorance in people's faces. They beat me with sticks. By the time I was forty my blunt instrument had been honed to a fine cutting point for me. If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn.
Ray Bradbury -
Ignorance is better than knowledge misapplied.
Norm MacDonald -
Ignorance ... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.
George Eliot -
Where there is no knowledge ignorance calls itself science.
George Bernard Shaw
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There's nothing as safe as ignorance or as dangerous.
Rex Stout -
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.
Paul Keating -
Another of the qualities of science is that it teaches the value of rational thought, as well as the importance of freedom of thought; the positive results that come from doubting that all the lessons are true... Learn from science that you must doubt the experts. As a matter of fact, I can also define science another way: Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.
Richard Feynman -
No teacher has ever failed from ignorance. That is empiric professional knowledge. Teachers fail because they cannot `handle the class.' Real education must ultimately be limited to men how INSIST on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
Ezra Pound -
History is a record of the incessant struggle of humanity against ignorance and oppression.
Helen Keller -
All ignorance is the lack of love.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
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When grown people speak of the innocence of children, they dont really know what they mean. Pressed, they will go a step further and say, Well, ignorance then. The child is neither. There is no crime which a boy of eleven had not envisaged long ago. His only innocence is, he may not be old enough to desire the fruits of it...his ignorance is, he does not know how to commit it...
William Faulkner -
The truth is that our race survived ignorance; it is our scientific genius that will do us in.
Stephen Vizinczey -
Is everyone who lives in Ignorance like you?" asked Milo. "Much worse," he said longingly. "But I don't live here. I'm from a place very far away called Context.
Norton Juster -
In an honest search for knowledge, you quite often have to abide by ignorance for an indefinite period.
Erwin Schrodinger