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- Nov 07, 2020
Ignorance Quotes
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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
We've not reached the promised land. We're still wandering around, bumping into each other in the wilderness of ignorance and hate. That is why the King holiday is so important.
- Failure
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- Nov 07, 2020
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
No one can deny that Russia fired some big rockets and placed satellites into orbit. But there's been a deluge of poppycock about 'miraculous' scientific advances that enabled them to do it. Much of this analysis reflects ignorance about rocketry.
- Nov 07, 2020
Ignorance is pitiful! If you are ignorant and stupid, you are sick - white, black, green, I don't care.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts; for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
The cause of violence is not ignorance. It is self-interest. Only reverance can restrain violence - reverance for human life and the environment.
- don't Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.
- Low
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- Nov 07, 2020
I consider nothing low but ignorance, vice, and meanness, characteristics generally found where the animal propensities predominate over the higher sentiments.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.
- Fruit
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- Nov 07, 2020
We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.
- Evil
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Nov 07, 2020
We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
- Chief
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- Nov 07, 2020
One's ignorance is one's chief asset.
- Truth
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- Nov 07, 2020
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
The ruling of men is the effort to direct the individual actions of many persons toward some end. This end theoretically should be the greatest good of all, but no human group has ever reached this ideal because of ignorance and selfishness.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a spiral galaxy, the ratio of dark-to-light matter is about a factor of ten. That's probably a good number for the ratio of our ignorance to knowledge. We're out of kindergarten, but only in about third grade.
- Perspective
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- Nov 07, 2020
Space is as infinite as we can imagine, and expanding this perspective is what adjusts humankind focus on conquering our true enemies, the formidable foes: ignorance and limitation.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's hard for me to stay silent when I keep hearing that peace is only attainable through war. There's nothing more scary than watching ignorance in action.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never thought black people would say I wasn't black enough. It didn't turn me into a bully - it just put me on the defensive. I had to watch my back. It made me stronger because I learned how to deal with ignorance.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I've created comedically owes a lot to my ignorance of comedy and love of making theatre stuff.
- Dangerous
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- Nov 07, 2020
They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.
- Greatest Threat
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- Nov 07, 2020
Far and away, the greatest threat to the ocean, and thus to ourselves, is ignorance. But we can do something about that.
- Crazy
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- Nov 07, 2020
When someone has that combination of arrogance and ignorance - that drives me crazy.
- Early Days
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- Nov 07, 2020
This paradox of vision - the genius of youthful ignorance - is nothing new. Had Bill Gates not been in diapers in the early days of computer software, he might have understood that there could never be a market for consumer software - but the 19-year-old Gates went ahead and cofounded Microsoft.
- Nov 07, 2020
The truth is that our race survived ignorance; it is our scientific genius that will do us in.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's inevitable that not everyone will like me, and that some will find me annoying. That's fine. All presenters deal with that. What's scary is the ignorance about what having a regional accent means, or indeed doesn't mean. It certainly doesn't equal ignorance.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
- Idealism
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- Nov 07, 2020
Idealism, alas, does not protect one from ignorance, dogmatism, and foolishness.
- Barbed
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poverty and ignorance, which beget terror, are not eradicated by firing artillery shells. Borders do not stop rockets, and barbed wire does not prevent terror.
- Nov 07, 2020
We have to stand together against terror and the reasons for terrorism, which are poverty and ignorance.
- Self
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Buddhist teaching, ignorance is considered the fundamental cause of violence - ignorance... about the separation of self and other... about the consequences of our actions.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of my friends are gay, and certainly I have no tolerance for anyone who has any sort of ignorance or restriction on people's lives or love lives.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a reader with next to no knowledge of classical mythology, I approached 'The Aeneid' just as I would a contemporary poem or novel - and, despite my ignorance, I was rewarded with a rich and affecting portrait of, among other things, the memorably doomed love affair between Aeneas and Dido.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
No one should ever say that it was my ignorance if I did or showed forth anything however small according to God's good pleasure; but let this be your conclusion and let it so be thought, that - as is the perfect truth - it was the gift of God.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I should say anything that is not in conformity with what is held by the Holy Roman Catholic Church, it will be through ignorance and not through malice. This may be taken as certain, and also that, through God's goodness, I am, and shall always be, as I always have been, subject to her.
- Little
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- Nov 07, 2020
The little I know I owe to my ignorance.
- Wisdom
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.
- Hatred
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- Nov 07, 2020
My family and I held no hatred for those people because we realized they were victims of their own ignorance.
- Daily
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- Nov 07, 2020
Firing insults anonymously behind the keys of a message board, slandering other people's beliefs or opinions, this happens on a daily basis in my comment section or on my feed. Cyber-bullying and, further, online social ignorance, is a very real problem, typically without any real consequence.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to fight poverty and ignorance and give opportunity to those people who are locked out.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
Aversion toward the blind exists for the same reason that most prejudices exist: lack of knowledge. Ignorance is a powerful generator of fear. And fear slides easily into aggression and contempt.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
We can choose between the future and the past, between reason and ignorance, between true compassion and mere ideology.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Now, ignorance is one thing, ignorance can be cured. But many of the Republican leaders opposing this research know better.
- Greatest Joys
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.
- Argument
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- Nov 07, 2020
Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only barrier to human development is ignorance, and this is not insurmountable.
- Gentleman
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- Nov 07, 2020
The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it.
- Miracles
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows.
- Humility
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fullness of knowledge always means some understanding of the depths of our ignorance; and that is always conducive to humility and reverence.
- Comedy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been cast in authority roles; I think because I have that presence... Comedically, I can play against that pretty well. I enjoy playing that arrogant ignorance. That's one of my favorite games to play in comedy.
- Process
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really think that living is the process of going from complete certainty to complete ignorance.
- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020
It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
The more Scott Walker campaigns, the more he proves he is not intellectually fit for the office he's seeking. He asserts innocent ignorance on matters he should by now know something about - a way of masking his apparent bigotry.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mental illnesses are so frightening and there's so much ignorance about them that I think it comforts people to think, 'Oh, well, it happens to these people because they deserve it.'
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020
The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.
- Intelligence
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the clashes between ignorance and intelligence, ignorance is generally the aggressor.
- Force
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- Nov 07, 2020
To attempt to superimpose its views through the exercise of force, is seldom the part of intelligence; it is frequently the part of ignorance.
- Despises
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- Nov 07, 2020
When an individual, a sect, a clique or a nation hates and despises another individual, sect, clique or nation, he or they simply do not know the objects of their hatred. Ignorance is at the bottom of it.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ignorance is a menace to peace.
- Eye
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.
- Calm
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- Nov 07, 2020