Ignorance Quotes - Page 16

• The clergy, no less than the capitalist class, lives on the backs of the people, profits from the degradation, the ignorance and the oppression of the people.

  Rosa Luxemburg

  Class, People, Degradation

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• A state of apostasy is worse than a state of ignorance.

  Matthew Henry

  States, Apostasy

  Matthew Henry, Leslie F. Church (1992). “The NIV Matthew Henry Commentary in One Volume: Based on the Broad Oak Edition”, p.8475, Harper Collins

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• It is debatable which is causing us more harm - hot-headed ignorance or cold-hearted intellectualism.

  Vance Havner

  Hot Headed, Cold Hearted, Harm

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• The fact that I'd never really seen myself on screen allowed for a blissful ignorance. It didn't feel like a movie. I didn't have that self-consciousness. It was a game that I was playing.

  Ellar Coltrane

  Games, Self, Facts

  Source: collider.com

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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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• Education is man's going forward from cocksure ignorance to thoughtful uncertainty.Where there is an open mind there will always be a frontier.

  Charles Kettering

  Thoughtful, Men, Mind

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• To argue that the gaps in knowledge which confront the seeker must be filled, not by patient inquiry, but by intuition or revelation, is simply to give ignorance a gratuitous and preposterous dignity.

  H. L. Mencken

  Giving, Intuition, Inquiry

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• At ebb tide I wrote a line upon the sand, and gave it all my heart and all my soul. At flood tide I returned to read what I had inscribed and found my ignorance upon the shore.

  Khalil Gibran

  Heart, Soul, Lines

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• The notion that better engineering can solve all our problems is rooted in an ignorance of non-linear systems and selective/wishful thinking.

  Charles Hugh Smith

  Thinking, Engineering, Problem

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• People who know nothing about advertising, nothing about pharmaceuticals, and nothing about economics have been loudly proclaiming that the drug companies spend too much on advertising - and demanding that the government pass laws based on their ignorance.

  Thomas Sowell

  Government, Law, People

  Thomas Sowell (2013). “Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays”, p.204, Hoover Press

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• Although I am very interested in the subject of human misjudgment - and lord knows I've created a good bit of it - I don't think I've created my full statistical share, and I think that one of the reasons was I tried to do something about this terrible ignorance I left the Harvard Law School with.

  Charlie Munger

  School, Thinking, Law

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• You may assume infinite ignorance and unlimited intelligence.

  Leo Szilard

  May, Assuming, Infinite

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• Informing people about the world's problems opens up the possibility to address them and change them. Anything else is simply willful ignorance. I mean, what the hell should we do? Sit around blowing up balloons? Watching Disney-sponsored movies? I don't think so.

  Henry Giroux

  Mean, Thinking, People

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• Learn to differentiate between ignorance and stupidity.

  Oscar Wilde

  Stupidity, Differentiate

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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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• When you're dealing with the universe, ignorance can be deadly.

  Phil Plait

  Universe

  "Phil Plait's Bad Universe comes to Discovery" (from monstersandcritics.com),

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• If your mind is open to opposing ideas, your intelligence will go up. If your mind is closed to opposing ideas, your ignorance is in control. Intelligence or ignorance? Your ability to keep an open mind and appreciate multiple points of view is conscious choice. And one that can open your world, and shape your childs future.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Ideas, Views, Appreciate

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• It is so easy to hide our ignorance under such expressions as the plan of
  creation or unity of design, etc., and to think that we give an explanation
  when we only restate a fact.

  Charles Darwin

  Thinking, Expression, Giving

  Charles Darwin (2016). “On the Origin of Species”, p.357, Zillmann Publishing

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• Today, on our own turf, we face pagan ignorance about God every bit as deep as that which the early church faced in the Roman Empire.

  J. I. Packer

  Church, Empires, Today

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• Ignorance is the Mother not of Devotion, but of Heresy.

  Cotton Mather

  Mother, Devotion, Heresy

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• The country will survive Obama, but it cannot survive the abject ignorance that elected him.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country

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• As coercive monopolies that spend other people's money taken by force, governments are uniquely unqualified to solve problems. They are riddled by ignorance, perverse incentives, incompetence and are self-serving.

  John Stossel

  Taken, Government, Self

  "Don't Look to Government to Cool Down the Planet". abcnews.go.com. November 14, 2007.

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• Philosopher Bertrand Russell suggested that 'Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.' And, it was Albert Einstein who explained, 'Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.' So which is it - stupidity, ignorance or insanity - that explains the behavior of my fellow Americans who call for greater government involvement in our lives?

  Walter E. Williams

  Stupid, Men, Insanity

  Walter E. Williams (2015). “American Contempt for Liberty”, p.58, Hoover Institution Press

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• Truth is better for humanity than ignorance, lies, or spin. And it's more interesting.

  Steve Sailer

  Lying, Interesting, Humanity

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• In a democracy, we have always had to worry about the ignorance of the uneducated. Today we have to worry about the ignorance of people with college degrees.

  Thomas Sowell

  College, People, Worry

  Thomas Sowell (2011). “Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)”, p.402, ReadHowYouWant.com

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