Ignorance Quotes
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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
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If they exert it not for good, they will for evil; if they advance not knowledge, they will perpetuate ignorance.
Frances Wright -
The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.
Samuel Butler -
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 -
If a democratic society displays less brilliance than an aristocracy, there will also be less wretchedness; pleasures will be less outrageous and wellbeing will be shared by all; the sciences will be on a smaller scale but ignorance will be less common; opinions will be less vigorous and habits gentler; you will notice more vices and fewer crimes.
Alexis de Tocqueville -
I don't think you can ever regain your ignorance.
Carla Bley
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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. -
Ignorance is the primary source of all misery and vice.
Victor Cousin -
During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What have been its fruits? More or less in all places, pride and indolence in the Clergy, ignorance and servility in the laity, in both, superstition, bigotry and persecution.
James Madison -
I will not expose the ignorance of the faculty.
Nancy Cartwright -
Republicans today have given the country conservatism in the spirit of Sarah Palin, whose ignorance about the world, contempt for expertise, and raw appeals to white identity politics presaged Trump's incendiary campaign.
George Packer -
But what sin is to the moralist and crime to the jurist so to the scientific man is ignorance.
Frederick Soddy
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Ignorance is a poison and knowledge will nourish.
Lawrence "Kris" Parker Boogie Down Productions -
Think what evil creeps liberals would be if their plans to enfeeble the individual, exhaust the economy, impede the rule of law, and cripple national defense were guided by a coherent ideology instead of smug ignorance.
P. J. O'Rourke -
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 -
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 -
Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.
Karl Popper -
I have to plead basic ignorance of most new jazz artists here.
Gary Lucas
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Ignorance and bloodlust have a long tradition in the United States, especially in the red states.
Jane Smiley -
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 -
God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray.
John Calvin -
You know when you're young, you have this unbelievable stupidity and arrogance and ignorance all mixed in?
Christopher Guest