- Prejudice
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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.
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- 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