Voltaire Quotes About Ignorance

Quotes about: Ignorance

• The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom.

  Voltaire

  Ignorance, Stupidity, Appearance

• He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.

  Voltaire

  Learning, Ignorance, Stupid People

• It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.

  Voltaire

  Ignorance, Knowledge, Would Be

• If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him; let us worship God through Jesus if we must - if ignorance has so far prevailed that this name can still be spoken in all seriousness without being taken as a synonym for rapine and carnage. Every sensible man, every honourable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror.

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  Christian, Jesus, Taken

• I envy animals for two things - their ignorance of evil to come, and their ignorance of what is said about them.

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  Ignorance, Animal, Two

• The Pride of every Jew finds cause to believe that the cause of their down fall is not their detestable politics, or ignorance of social graces, but the raft of God. They believe it took a miracle to undo them.

  Voltaire

  Religious, Believe, Fall

• had no need of a guide to learn ignorance

  Voltaire

  Ignorance, Needs, Guides

  Voltaire (2016). “Voltaire – The Philosophical Works: Treatise On Tolerance, Philosophical Dictionary, Candide, Letters on England, Plato’s Dream, Dialogues, The Study of Nature, Ancient Faith and Fable, Zadig…: From the French writer, historian and philosopher, famous for his wit, his attacks on the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion and freedom of expression”, p.2456, e-artnow

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