Ignorance Quotes - Page 18

• 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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• 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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• Somebody else's ignorance is bliss.

  Jack Vance

  Bliss, Ignorance Is Bliss

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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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• 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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• It must certainly be more dangerous to live in ignorance than to live with knowledge.

  Frank Herbert

  Dangerous

  Frank Herbert (2007). “The White Plague”, p.68, Macmillan

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• Adventure is putting one's ignorance into motion.

  William Least Heat-Moon

  Adventure

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

  Cotton Mather

  Mother, Devotion, Heresy

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

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country

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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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• 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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• Only the stupefying ignorance of young women prevents them from comprehending the stupefying emptiness of the men who cluster round them.

  Richard Brookhiser

  Men, Emptiness, He Man

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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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• 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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• Under the influence of collectivist ideologies, many politicians and journalists are ever eager to strike at successful entrepreneurs who earn much more than they do. It is difficult to ascertain their motives; it can be simple envy which consumes many men, or it can be economic ignorance.

  Hans F. Sennholz

  Successful, Simple, Men

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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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• I do sometimes accuse people of ignorance, but that is not intended to be an insult. I'm ignorant of lots of things. Ignorance is something that can be remedied by education.

  Richard Dawkins

  People, Ignorant, Insult

  "How Richard Dawkins Communicates Evolution (Surprise, It’s Not the Same Thing as Atheism)" by Chris Mooney, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• A specialist is a barbarian whose ignorance is not well-rounded.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Barbarians, Wells, Well Rounded

  Stanislaw Lem (1984). “His Master's Voice”, p.30, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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• The world is living today in what might be described as an era of carnality, which glorifies sex, hates restraint, identifies purity with coldness, innocence with ignorance, and turns men and women into Buddhas with their eyes closed, hands folded across their breasts, intently looking inward, thinking only of self.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Sex, Hate, Eye

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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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• I thought I knew everything about love and relationships in my 20s, the ignorance of youth is bliss. As you get older, you start to realise that you don't really know anything and life is a great traveling journey. Life is unexpected...you just never know whats going to happen.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Journey, Unexpected, Youth

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