- Intelligence
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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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- 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
We are born knowing nothing and with much striving we learn but a little; yet all the while we are bound by laws that hearken to no plea of ignorance, and measure out their rewards and punishments with calm indifference.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
Is there anything science should not try to explain? Science is knowledge and knowledge is power - power to do good or evil. Sometimes ignorance is bliss.
- Congress
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ignorance of the law is not a valid excuse for accused criminals, and it cannot be an excuse for members of Congress.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
So when you spot violence, or bigotry, or intolerance or fear or just garden-variety misogyny, hatred or ignorance, just look it in the eye and think, 'The good outnumber you, and we always will.'
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dominant feeling every day is one of great ignorance.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think there is no reason for us to bring to Islamism or political Islam the fear and ignorance of Western commentators and their hysterical vocabulary.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
Shallowness and ignorance have been our lot in the mass consumer societies we inhabit, where we were too distracted to act politically, apart from periodically deputing political elites to take life-and-death decisions on our behalf.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a danger, increasingly, that we're in a post-fact society where it seems my ignorance is as good as your facts.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ignorance is my least favorite thing. I really think it's at the core of all our problems.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is fairly well-known what has been behind that climate change denial in America: vast sums pumped into an ignorance industry by the oil and gas lobbies.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are many reasons why vulnerable young people join militant groups, but among them are poverty and ignorance. Indeed Boko Haram - which translates in English, roughly, as 'Western Education Is Sinful' - preys on the perverted belief that the opportunities that education brings are sinful.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020