- Catholics
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ignorance Quotes
On what we don't know and why it matters.
One quote here makes an unexpected point about science, arguing that progress mostly deepens our awareness of just how much remains unknown rather than eliminating it. Another calls ignorance a person's greatest asset, a wry, almost self-deprecating twist on the word.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Growing Up
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the scattered settlements of this Diocese, schools and Churches are of necessity for many years few in number, and multitudes of both sexes are growing up in great ignorance.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do believe states' rights was a sound doctrine that got hijacked by some unsavory customers for a while - like, 150 years or so. I'm professionally obliged to believe that knowledge is better than ignorance, but some kinds of forgetting are OK with me.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The biggest road block to action on genocide and other human rights crimes is ignorance. Most people just don't know that such things are happening, and often, if they have a vague idea they are happening, there is a feeling that there is nothing that can be done to stop these crimes.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are few earthly things more beautiful than a university a place where those who hate ignorance may strive to know, where those who perceive truth may strive to make others see.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future.
- Devil
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- Nov 07, 2020
A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance; but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
My stories are about humanity, about the challenges of surviving and the constant fight against ignorance, inhumanity and complacency.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.
- Honor
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- Nov 07, 2020