Ignorance Quotes
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Selective ignorance, a cornerstone of child rearing. You don't put kids under surveillance: it might frighten you. Parents should sit tall in the saddle and look upon their troops with a noble and benevolent and extremely nearsighted gaze.
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The gentlemen who wrote the Constitution were as suspicious of efficient government as they were wary of democracy, a 'turbulence and a folly' that was associated with the unruly ignorance of an urban mob.
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'Don’t lose your temper,' said Ruell evenly. 'It’s your worst fault, except for ignorance.'
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I am not a great theologian. I know there is a theological concept called invincible ignorance in which a strong enough faith binds you to any facts to the contrary.
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Photography can light-up darkness and expose ignorance.
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The only enemy is ignorance. Peace, people. Let's get rid of all this nuclear testing.
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I will not expose the ignorance of the faculty.
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Theology is now little more than a branch of human ignorance. Indeed, it is ignorance with wings.
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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.
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Ignorance is the primary source of all misery and vice.
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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.
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The virtues chose Modesty to be their queen.'I did not know that I was a virtue,' she said. 'Why did you not choose Innocence?''Because of her ignorance,' they replied. 'She knows nothing but that she is a virtue.'
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Ignorance can be improved; willful ignorance and inaction is inexcusable.
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If the ignorance of nature gave birth to such a variety of gods, the knowledge of this nature is calculated to destroy them.
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Shallowness and ignorance have been our lot in the mass consumer societies we inhabit, where we were too distracted to act politically, apart from periodically deputing political elites to take life-and-death decisions on our behalf.
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Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.
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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.
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In my family, there was no celebration of ignorance. They'd come and see Chekhov or Shakespeare. I've got a sister who got a first in her degree. We don't sit around watching TV all the time.
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Truth is harder to bear than ignorance, and so ignorance is valued more- also because the status quo depends on it; but love depends on self-knowledge and self-knowledge depends on being able to bear the truth.
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Knowledge leads to unity, and Ignorance to diversity.
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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.
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Shackle your mind when you bend on the cross,When ignorance reigns life is lost.
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Ignorance is a poison and knowledge will nourish.
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Ah! destructive Ignorance, what shall be done to chase thee out of the World!
