- 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
- Horizon
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- Nov 07, 2020
In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.
- Facts
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
- Healthy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Curiosity killed the cat, but where human beings are concerned, the only thing a healthy curiosity can kill is ignorance.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
- Far
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- Nov 07, 2020
We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
Here is true immorality: ignorance and stupidity; the devil is nothing but this. His name is Legion.
- Rope
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- Nov 07, 2020
Owing to ignorance of the rope the rope appears to be a snake; owing to ignorance of the Self the transient state arises of the individualized, limited, phenomenal aspect of the Self.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
After Chuck Berry died, it seemed web sites popped up like mushrooms to show where he'd taken the guitar introduction to 'Johnny B. Goode' from to prove that his music was nothing new, that it was only ignorance, or vanity, that led his listeners to think that not only was the music different - they might be, too.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
Reared in rural southern Alabama, we enjoyed an idyllic Huck Finn boyhood. But education there was casual at best. Our mother and father were high school teachers and challenged the pervasive easy-going ignorance.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020