Ignorance Quotes - Page 15

• Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all.

  John W. Gardner

  Simple, Two, Political

  "A Nation Is Never Finished". ABA Journal, Volume 53, page 1011, November 1967.

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• I seek the truth...it is only persistence in self-delusion and ignorance that does harm.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Wisdom, Truth, Persistence

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• Credentialed ignorance is still ignorance.

  Thomas Sowell

  Stills

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• And I saw that truly nothing happens by accident or luck, but everything by God's wise providence. If it seems to be accident or luck from our point of view, our blindness and lack of foreknowledge is the cause; for matters that have been in God's foreseeing wisdom since before time began befall us suddenly, all unawares; and so in our blindness and ignorance we say that this is accident or luck, but to our Lord God it is not so.

  Julian of Norwich

  Wise, Views, Luck

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• For myself, I long ago decided that I would rather know the truth than be happy in ignorance. If I can not have both truth and happiness, give me truth. We’ll have a long time to be happy in heaven.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Long Ago, Giving, Heaven

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• There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund of conversation.

  William Hazlitt

  Ignorant, Conversation, Former

  William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.77

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• Absence of gratitude is the mark of the narrow, uneducated mind. It bespeaks a lack of knowledge and the ignorance of self-sufficiency. It expresses itself in ugly egotism and frequently in wanton mischief. We have seen our beaches, our parks, our forests littered with ugly refuse by those who evidently have no appreciation for their beauty. I have driven through thousands of acres of blackened land scourged by a fire evidently set by a careless smoker whose only concern had been the selfish pleasure gained from a cigarette.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Beach, Gratitude, Appreciation

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• Addiction is craving fulfillment from something that cannot provide fulfillment. In this sense it is not different than the basic mechanism of ignorance that keeps everyone in bondage. With substance addiction the mind/body sets up a vicious cycle that perpetuates the dependence.

  Deepak Chopra

  Addiction, Mind, Different

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• The major threats to our survival no longer stem from nature without but from our own human nature within. It is our carelessness, our hostilities, our selfishness and pride and willful ignorance that endanger the world.

  M. Scott Peck

  Pride, Evil, Survival

  M. Scott Peck (2015). “The People Of The Lie”, p.302, Random House

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• The idea of a news broadcast once was to find someone with information and broadcast it. The idea now is to find someone with ignorance and spread it around.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Ideas, News, Information

  P.J. O'Rourke (2009). “Peace Kills”, p.60, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Denial of our pattern of failure seems to be a kind of practical atheism or chosen ignorance among many believers and clergy.

  Richard Rohr

  Atheist, Atheism, Denial

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• If we humans are good at anything, it’s thinking we’ve got a terrific idea and going for it without acknowledging the potential consequences or our own ignorance.

  David Suzuki

  Thinking, Ideas, Going For It

  David Suzuki, Ian Hanington (2012). “Everything Under the Sun: Toward a Brighter Future on a Small Blue Planet”, p.53, Greystone Books

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• The two pillars of 'political correctness' are, a) willful ignorance, and b) a steadfast refusal to face the truth.

  George MacDonald Fraser

  Two, Political, Faces

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• If anyone can refute me-show me I'm making a mistake or looking at things from the wrong perspective-I'l l gladly change. It's the truth I'm after, and the truth never harmed anyone. What harms us is to persist in self-deceit and ignorance.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Mistake, Self, Perspective

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• Many people are being persuaded that they cannot be considered intelligent or well educated if they insist on the doctrine of the verbal inspiration of the Book. Let me say to you that truth has always lived with the minority; what the majority says at a given moment is usually wrong. The crowd one day cried, "Crucify him," and the whole world united to murder the Son of God, because in their ignorance they knew Him not.

  Alan Redpath

  Bible, Book, Inspiration

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• All the wars, all the hatred, all the ignorance in the world come out of being so invested in our opinions.

  Pema Chodron

  War, Hatred, World

  Pema Chodron (2012). “Living Beautifully: with Uncertainty and Change”, p.108, Shambhala Publications

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• Stand up to hypocrisy. If you don't, the hypocrites will teach. Stand up to ignorance, because if you don't, the ignorant will run free to spread ignorance like a disease. Stand up for Truth! If you don't, there is no Truth to your existence. If you don't stand up for all that is right, then understand that you are part of the reason that there is so much wrong in the world.

  Suzy Kassem

  Running, Hypocrite, Hypocrisy

  "Rise Up and Salute the Sun". Book by Suzy Kassem, 2010.

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• Our ignorance, and it is based on the egos we have. It is the unwillingness to go beyond ego.

  Edgar Mitchell

  Ego

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• You may assume infinite ignorance and unlimited intelligence.

  Leo Szilard

  May, Assuming, Infinite

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• Knowledge will forever govern ignorance.

  James Madison

  Forever

  Letter toW. T. Barry, 4 Aug. 1822

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• Why shouldn't gay people be able to live as open and freely as everybody else? What it comes down to, ultimately, is love. How can anything bad come out of love? The bad stuff comes out of mistrust, misunderstanding and, God knows, from hate and from ignorance.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Hate, Gay, People

  "Elizabeth Taylor remembered for kindness, activism" by Michael Martinez, www.cnn.com. March 23, 2011.

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• Learn to differentiate between ignorance and stupidity.

  Oscar Wilde

  Stupidity, Differentiate

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• The costs of an ignorance of science are nor just practical ones like misbegotten policies, forgone cures, and a unilateral disarmament in national competitiveness. There is a moral cost as well. It is an astonishing fact about our species that we understand so much about the history of the universe. the forces that make it tick, the stuff it's made of; the origin of living things, and the machinery of life. A failure to nurture this knowledge shows a philistine indifference to the magnificent achievements humanity is capable of; like allowing a great work of art to molder in a warehouse.

  Steven Pinker

  Art, Achievement, Humanity

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• Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.

  Frederick Douglass

  People, Evil, Degradation

  Frederick Douglass, Philip Sheldon Foner, Yuval Taylor (1999). “Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings”, p.214, Chicago Review Press

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• Ignorance is constricted awareness.

  Deepak Chopra

  Awareness

  Deepak Chopra (2007). “The Essential Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desire: The Essence of Harnessing the Infinite Power of Coincidence”, p.60, Harmony

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