Ignorance Quotes - Page 17

• 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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• 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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• Taste is a matter of ignorance. If you know what you are tasting, you don't have to taste.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Matter, Taste, Knows

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• When I was a kid I think the thing I remembered most about The Exorcist was Linda Blair being possessed by the devil, and how scary that was. It had a lot of parallels for me because the movie was challenging different ideas about faith and it was looking at religion in a darker way. Growing up I was afraid of being possessed by the devil, as an adult I'm afraid of being possessed by the world, by ignorance, and not holding on to my beliefs and what I feel strongly about.

  Marilyn Manson

  Growing Up, Kids, Thinking

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• Human beings are not our enemy. Our enemy is not the other person. Our enemy is the violence, ignorance, and injustice in us and in the other person. When we are armed with compassion and understanding, we fight not against other people, but against the tendency to invade, to dominate, and to exploit.

  Nhat Hanh

  Fighting, Compassion, People

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2001). “Anger”, p.130, Penguin

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• Most ignorances are vincible, and in the greater number of cases stupidity is what the Buddha pronounced it to be, a sin. For, consciously, or subconsciously, it is with deliberation that we do not know or fail to understand-because incomprehension allows us, with a good conscience, to evade unpleasant obligations and responsibilities, because ignorance is the best excuse for going on doing what one likes, but ought not, to do.

  Aldous Huxley

  Responsibility, Numbers, Stupidity

  Aldous Huxley (2001). “Complete Essays: 1936-1938”, Ivan R Dee

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• I remembered a time when my grandmother had asked me to explain television to her - the guts, not the funny pictures. There are things which cannot be taught in ten easy lessons, nor popularized for the masses; they take years of skull sweat. This be treason in an age when ignorance has come into its own and one man's opinion is as good as another's. But there it is. As Star says, the world is what it is - and doesn't forgive ignorance.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Stars, Grandmother, Men

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• Unfortunately, 19th-century scientists were just as ready to jump to the conclusion that any guess about nature was an obvious fact, as were 17th-century sectarians to jump to the conclusion that any guess about Scripture was the obvious explanation . . . . and this clumsy collision of two very impatient forms of ignorance was known as the quarrel of Science and Religion.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Two, Scripture, Facts

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• Not only in peasant homes, but also in city skyscrapers, there lives alongside the twentieth century, the thirteenth. A hundred million people use electricity and still believe in the magic powers of signs and exorcisms . . . movie stars to mediums. Aviators who pilot miraculous mechanisms created by man's genius wear amulets on their sweaters. What inexhaustible reserves they possess of darkness, ignorance and savagery!

  Leon Trotsky

  Stars, Believe, Home

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• Delusion will vanish as the light becomes more and more effulgent, load after load of ignorance will vanish, and then will come a time when all else has disappeared and the sun alone shines.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Light, Shining, Sun

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.650, Manonmani Publishers

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• Ignorance is the worst form of slavery. (Paraphrased)

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Slavery, Form, Worst

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• Every time a person allows an act of ignorance to happen (one word, thought or action), they delay our progress towards building a beautiful global garden for our children. Every person, molecule, and THING matters. All of our separate actions are a reflection of the actions of the whole.

  Suzy Kassem

  Beautiful, Children, Reflection

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• The bad one is that way because of the ignorance, therefore he can be healed with wisdom.

  Socrates

  Way, Healed

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• The true Wisdom is in recognizing our own ignorance.

  Socrates

  Recognizing, True Wisdom

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• I think there's something about being a neophyte that's refreshing and hard to duplicate; it brings about real innovation. Innovation usually comes about through blind ignorance.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Real, Thinking, Innovation

  "New again: Sylvester Stallone". Interview with Pat Hackett, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 2, 2015.

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

  Cotton Mather

  Mother, Devotion, Heresy

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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