- Foundation
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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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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
All around me insisted that my doubts proved only my own ignorance and sinfulness; that they knew by experience they would soon give place to true knowledge, and an advance in religion; and I felt something like indecision.
- Convent
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- Nov 07, 2020
So far as I know, there were no pains taken to preserve secrecy on this subject; that is, I saw no attempt made to keep any of the inmates of the Convent in ignorance of the murder of children.
- Fruit
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When motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning, not the result of ignorance or accident, its children will become the foundation of a new race.
- Disease
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- Nov 07, 2020
My top most priority is to deal with India's massive social and economic problems, so that chronic poverty, ignorance and disease can be conquered in a reasonably short period of time.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
All the great evils which men cause to each other because of certain intentions, desires, opinions, or religious principles, are likewise due to non-existence, because they originate in ignorance, which is absence of wisdom.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
The knowledge from an enlightened person breaks on the hard rocks of ignorance.
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Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.
- Nov 07, 2020
Innocence is ignorance.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Uncertainty and fear and ignorance about immigrants, about people who are different, has a history as old as our Nation.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020