Ignorance Quotes
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Theology is now little more than a branch of human ignorance. Indeed, it is ignorance with wings.
Sam Harris -
There is simple ignorance, not knowing, and willful ignorance that refuses to know, that covers the light of knowledge with the dark blanket of bias.
Elizabeth Moon
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Photography can light-up darkness and expose ignorance.
Lewis Hine -
There is no stopping the world's tendency to throw off imposed restraints, the religious authority that is based on the ignorance of the many, the political authority that is based on the knowledge of the few.
Van Wyck Brooks -
I bear my burden proudly for all to see, to conquer prejudice and ignorance and hate with knowledge and sincerity and love. Whenever you are threatened by a hostile presence, you emit a thick cloud of love like an octopus squirts out ink.
William S. Burroughs -
If any man can convince me and bring home to me that I do not think or act aright, gladly will I change; for I search after truth, by which man never yet was harmed. But he is harmed who abideth on still in his deception and ignorance.
Marcus Aurelius -
Ignorance is the primary source of all misery and vice.
Victor Cousin -
Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.
Karl Popper
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The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.
John F. Kennedy -
We have ignored cultural literacy in thinking about education We ignore the air we breathe until it is thin or foul. Cultural literacy is the oxygen of social intercourse.
E. D. Hirsch, Jr. -
I will not expose the ignorance of the faculty.
Nancy Cartwright -
Scientists habitually moan that the public doesn't understand them. But they complain too much: public ignorance isn't peculiar to science. It's sad if some citizens can't tell a proton from a protein. But it's equally sad if they're ignorant of their nation's history, can't speak a second language, or can't find Venezuela or Syria on a map.
Martin Rees -
Shackle your mind when you bend on the cross,When ignorance reigns life is lost.
Zack de la Rocha Rage Against the Machine -
Most people, including ourselves, live in a world of relative ignorance. We are even comfortable with that ignorance, because it is all we know. When we first start facing truth, the process may be frightening, and many people run back to their old lives. But if you continue to seek truth, you will eventually be able to handle it better. In fact, you want more! It's true that many people around you now may think you are weird or even a danger to society, but you don't care. Once you've tasted the truth, you won't ever want to go back to being ignorant.
Socrates
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The voice of the intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is biased by hate and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance.
Karl A. Menninger -
If they exert it not for good, they will for evil; if they advance not knowledge, they will perpetuate ignorance.
Frances Wright -
You know when you're young, you have this unbelievable stupidity and arrogance and ignorance all mixed in?
Christopher Guest -
I don't think you can ever regain your ignorance.
Carla Bley -
Knowledge leads to unity, and Ignorance to diversity.
Ramakrishna -
I have to plead basic ignorance of most new jazz artists here.
Gary Lucas
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Ignorance is a poison and knowledge will nourish.
Lawrence "Kris" Parker Boogie Down Productions -
What I love about the East End is that there's a great perseverance, determination and courage. What I dislike about it is that there is sometimes a celebration of ignorance.
Eddie Marsan -
There are no divisions as such, but there is an appearance of separateness because of ignorance. This means that everything is of ignorance and that every one is Ignorance personified.
Meher Baba -
Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.
Isaac Asimov