Ignorance Quotes - Page 13

• Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• The only victories which leave no regret are those which are gained over ignorance.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Motivational, Regret, Stupid

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• The only thing that is more expensive than education is ignorance.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Expensive

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• Only ignorance! only ignorance! how can you talk about only ignorance? Don't you know that it is the worst thing in the world, next to wickedness? -- and which does the most mischief heaven only knows. If people can say, `Oh! I did not know, I did not mean any harm,' they think it is all right.

  Anna Sewell

  Motivational, Mean, Thinking

  Anna Sewell (2013). “Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse”, p.65, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Here is true immorality: ignorance and stupidity; the devil is nothing but this. His name is Legion.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Stupid, Names, Devil

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• They are asleep. This is the condition they prefer. They are afraid of the world and sleep is a way of dealing with their fear. Someday they will wake. Perhaps something frightful will happen. Indeed, there is no better invitation to the frightful than ignorance - that is, sleep. (29)

  Stephen Dobyns

  Sleep, World, Way

  Stephen Dobyns (2015). “The Church of Dead Girls: A Novel”, p.32, Penguin

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• Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat.

  Ernest Bevin

  People, Intelligence, Looks

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• By ignorance the truth is known.

  Henry Suso

  Learning, Intellectual, Intelligence

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• A man told me that for a woman, I was very opinionated. I said, 'for a man you're kind of ignorant'.

  Anne Hathaway

  Funny, Women, Humorous

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• Racism is a refuge for the ignorant. It seeks to divide and to destroy. It is the enemy of freedom, and deserves to be met head-on and stamped out.

  Pierre Berton

  Inspirational, Motivational, Freedom

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• Thousands are the children of poor foreigners, who have permitted them to grow up without school, education, or religion. All the neglect and bad education and evil example of a poor class tend to form others, who, as they mature, swell the ranks of ruffians and criminals. So, at length, a great multitude of ignorant, untrained, passionate, irreligious boys and young men are formed, who become the "dangerous class" of our city.

  Charles Loring Brace

  Education, Children, Growing Up

  "The Dangerous Classes of New York and Twenty Years' Work Among Them".

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• Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage. Call it the stupidity of the American voter or whatever, but basically, that was really, really critical for the thing to pass.

  Jonathan Gruber

  Stupid People, Obamacare, Stupidity

  "Advocate's Comments On ACA Now A Liability For Law's Supporters". "All Things Considered", www.npr.org. December 9, 2014.

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• Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Karma, Peace

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• Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.

  George Eliot

  Literature, Hours

  George Eliot (2011). “Daniel Deronda (丹尼爾的半生緣)”, p.575, Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.

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• I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

  Socrates

  Motivational, Thinking, Knowing Nothing

  Quoted in Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Philosophers See Milton 45

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• You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.

  Harlan Ellison

  Motivational, Stupid, Knowledge

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• If you did not in your own mind distinguish between useful and erroneous information, then you were not learning at all, you were merely replacing ignorance with false belief, which was no improvement.

  Orson Scott Card

  Mind, Information, Belief

  Orson Scott Card (2011). “Ender's Shadow: Book 1 of The Shadow Saga”, p.65, Hachette UK

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• The trouble with most folks isn't their ignorance. It's knowin' so many things that ain't so.

  Josh Billings

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Trouble

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  It is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice. For they cannot live in any country where virtue and knowledge prevail.

  Samuel Adams

  Country, Tyrants, People

  Samuel Adams (1968). “The Writings of Samuel Adams: 1770-1773”

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• Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.

  Herbert Spencer

  Our Lives

  Herbert Spencer (1852). “A theory of population, deduced from the general law of animal fertility. Republ. from The Westm. review”, p.31

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• I'd like to thank readers. Every time you open a book, it is a strike against ignorance. Unless you're reading Sarah Palin.

  Libba Bray

  Book, Reading, Strikes

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• Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Mistake, Writing, Errors

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.17

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• I felt that the world, and in particular this country, were going in circles. What had happened 40 or 50 years ago was happening again, but even in a worse form - that we were sinking into a lot of ignorance and a lot of superficial change.

  Raoul Peck

  Country, Circles, Years

  "James Baldwin Was Never Your Negro". Interview with Edwin Rios, www.motherjones.com. February 3, 2017.

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• Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

  Plato

  Plato, Philosophical, Deep Thought

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• The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

  Winston Churchill

  Motivational, Truth, Business

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