Quotes about ignorance
religious ignorance ignorant
Science intensifies religious truth by cleansing it of ignorance and superstition. Charles Lindbergh
ignorance tyrants enlightenment
Ignorance has always been the weapon of tyrants; enlightenment the salvation of the free. Bill Richardson
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In friendship, as in love, we are often happier through our ignorance than our knowledge. William Shakespeare
knowledge ignorance darkness
I say there is no darkness but ignorance.
ignorance stupidity common
The common curse of mankind, folly and ignorance, be thine in great revenue!
ignorance army years
The most basic barrier was language itself, very few Americans in Iraq whether soldiers or diplomats or news paper reporters could speak more than a few words of Arabic. A remarkable number of them didn't even have translators. That meant for many Iraqis the typical 19 year old army corporal from South Dakota was not a youthful innocent carrying Americas good will, he was a terrifying combination of firepower and ignorance. Dexter Filkins
ignorance extinction bliss
When it comes to impending, unavoidable extinction, ignorance is bliss. Darren Shan
ignorance want mist
I lament the want of a liberal education. I feel the mist of ignorance to surround me - Nathanael Greene David McCullough
believe ignorance opportunity
America faces an enemy who believes in enforced ignorance. And all that we stand for is the open mind, the generous spirit, the ideal of tolerance, freedom, education, opportunity.
powerful fear ignorance
... in a cycle as old as tribalism, ignorance of the Other engenders fear; fear engenders hatred; hatred engenders violence; violence engenders further violence until the only "rights", the only law, are whatever is willed by the most powerful. David Mitchell
ignorance greed
I don't like greed, I don't like ignorance. I really don't like anger. But I love love. David Crosby
school ignorance men
We constantly see surveys that reveal this ignorance, especially among our high school students,78 percent of whom, in a recent nationwide multiple-choice test, identified Abraham Lincoln as 'a kind of lobster.' That's right: more than three quarters of our nation's youth could not correctly identify the man who invented the telephone. Dave Barry
confidence ignorance overcoming
The confidence of ignorance will always overcome the indecision of knowledge David Storey
ignorance thinking ideas
If we humans are good at anything, it’s thinking we’ve got a terrific idea and going for it without acknowledging the potential consequences or our own ignorance. David Suzuki
distance mistake ignorance
Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective. Carl Sagan
country ignorance government
Nevertheless, (Jefferson) believed that the habit of skepticism is an essential prerequisite for responsible citizenship. He argued that the cost of education is trivial compared to the cost of ignorance, of leaving government to the wolves. He taught that the country is safe only when the people rule.
stupid ignorance science
Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.
ignorance people lust
History is full of people who out of fear, or ignorance, or lust for power has destroyed knowledge of immeasurable value which truly belongs to us all. We must not let it happen again.
motivational education ignorance
We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.
mistake ignorance errors
The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage. We are the custodians of life's meaning. We long for a Parent to care for us, to forgive us our errors, to save us from our childish mistakes. But knowledge is preferable to ignorance. Better by far to embrace the hard truth than a reassuring fable. If we crave some cosmic purpose, then let us find ourselves a worthy goal.
ignorance media pseudoscience
The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.
ignorance america decay
The dumbing down of America is evident in the slow decay of substantive content, a kind of celebration of ignorance.
ignorance racism brain
Racism does not diminish with brains, it's a disease, a sickness, it may incubate in ignorance but it doesn't necessarily disappear with the gaining of wisdom! Bryce Courtenay
children ignorance strange
Children know how to be cruel, and the cruelty of their elders is the surest residue of the malaise the young feel toward things strange, things other, things that reveal our own ignorance or insufficiency Carlos Fuentes
ignorance sarcasm
His ignorance is encyclopedic. Abba Eban
ignorance progress too-much
Without knowledge there can be no sure progress. Vice and barbarism are the inseparable companions of ignorance. Nor is it too much to say that, except in rare instances, the highest virtue is attained only through intelligence. Charles Sumner
ignorance doe generations
It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous. Charles Dudley Warner
ignorance pride whole-family
The whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other Charles Caleb Colton
faith ignorance sea
It is sufficiently humiliating to our nature to reflect that our knowledge is but as she rivulet, our ignorance as the sea. On points of the highest interest, the moment we quit the light of revelation we shall find that Platonism itself is intimately connected with Pyrrhonism, and the deepest inquiry with the darkest doubt.
ignorance errors steps
Error, when she retraces her steps, has farther to go before she can arrive at truth than ignorance.
ignorance pride thinking
It is with nations as with individuals, those who know the least of others think the highest of themselves; for the whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other.
lying ignorance space
Ignorance lies at the bottom of all human knowledge, and the deeper we penetrate the nearer we arrive unto it. For what do we truly know, or what can we clearly affirm, of any one of those important things upon which all our reasonings must of necessity be built--time and space, life and death, matter and mind?
taken ignorance men
It is a curious paradox that precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity, to those mysterious powers assumed by others; and in those regions of darkness and ignorance where man cannot effect even those things that are within the power of man, there we shall ever find that a blind belief in feats that are far beyond those powers has taken the deepest root in the minds of the deceived, and produced the richest harvest to the knavery of the deceiver.