Ignorance Quotes - Page 19

• The ethical rule is from Samuel Johnson who believed that maintenance of easily removable ignorance by a responsible office holder was treacherous malfeasance in meeting moral obligation. The prudential rule is that underlying the old Warner & Swasey advertisement for machine tools: "The man who needs a new machine tool, and hasn't bought it, is already paying for it". The Warner & Swasey rule also applies, I believe, to thinking tools. If you don't have the right thinking tools, you, and the people you seek to help, are already suffering from your easily removable ignorance.

  Charlie Munger

  Believe, Men, Thinking

  Charlie Munger's speech at the Breakfast Meeting of the Philanthropy Roundtable in Washington, D.C., November 10, 2000.

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• Awareness of ignorance is the beginning of wisdom.

  Socrates

  Awareness

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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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• Ignorance is...voluntary... (Paraphrased)

  Nicholas Ling

  Paraphrased

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• There are over a million types of fish in the sea as there are flowers in all of the world's gardens. There are at least a million different types of rocks/minerals as there are species of birds or monkeys. To believe we are the only "intelligent beings" on this earth and beyond is ignorance. The possible configurations of lifeforms that could be created from a single atom are infinite. There are at least a billion people on this earth, and no two faces look the same. It is very arrogant to assume that we have seen all of God's miracles.

  Suzy Kassem

  Believe, Flower, Garden

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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.

  Suzy Kassem

  Running, Hypocrite, Hypocrisy

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

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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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• [Believers] are but triflers who, when they cannot explain a thing, run back to the will of God; this is, truly, a ridiculous way of expressing ignorance.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Running, Way, Ridiculous

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• The powerful have no monopoly on greed, hatred, fear, or ignorance.

  Cornel West

  Powerful, Hatred, Greed

  Source: genius.com

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• May I hold myself in compassion.
  May I meet the suffering and ignorance of others with compassion.

  Gautama Buddha

  Compassion, Suffering, May

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• Ignorance is the greatest source of happiness.

  Giacomo Leopardi

  Source, Source Of Happiness

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• We are destined to be a barrier against the return of ignorance and barbarism. Old Europe will have to lean on our shoulders, and to hobble along by our side, under the monkish trammels of priests and kings, as she can. What a colossus shall we be when the southern continent comes up to our mark! What a stand will it seem as a ralliance for the reason and freedom of the globe!

  Thomas Jefferson

  Kings, Europe, Southern

  Thomas Jefferson, J. Jefferson Looney (2014). “The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series, Volume 10: 1 May 1816 to 18 January 1817”, p.285, Princeton University Press

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• There is simple ignorance, not knowing, and willful ignorance that refuses to know, that covers the light of knowledge with the dark blanket of bias.

  Elizabeth Moon

  Dark, Simple, Light

  Elizabeth Moon (2004). “The Speed of Dark: A Novel”, p.252, Ballantine Books

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• I have never found criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.

  Harold MacMillan

  Criticism, Found

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• To say I'm ignorant only proves your ignorance.

  Behdad Sami

  Ignorant, Prove

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• Let ignorance reproduce itself until it is weary of its own offspring.

  Khalil Gibran

  Weary, Offspring

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• Educationists are entertaining. We can always find a good laugh in their prose, with its special, ludicrous combination of ignorance and pretentiousness.

  Richard Mitchell

  Laughing, Special, Combination

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• The terrors of the child are quite reasonable, and add to his loveliness; for his utter ignorance and weakness, and his enchanting indignation on such a small basis of capital compel every bystander to take his part.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Children, Bystanders, Weakness

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters”, p.206, London S. Low, Son & Marston 1870.

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• Two large prominent eyes that rolled about to no purpose (for he was utterly short-sighted) a wide mouth, thick lips and inflated visage, gave him the air of a blind trumpeter. A deep untuneable voice which, instead of modulating, he enforced with unnecsessary pomp, a total neglect of his person, and ignorance of every civil attention, disgusted all who judge by appearance.

  Horace Walpole

  Eye, Two, Voice

  Horace Walpole (1963). “Horace Walpole: Memoirs and Portraits”

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• My characters have nothing. I'm working with impotence, ignorance... that whole zone of being that has always been set aside by artists as something unusable - something by definition incompatible with art.

  Samuel Beckett

  Art, Character, Definitions

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• They that believe that ignorance is bliss, are ignorant and have never known bliss.

  Ryan Miller

  Believe, Ignorant, Bliss

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• Unbelief, in distinction from disbelief, is a confession of ignorance where honest inquiry might easily find the truth. - "Agnostic" is but the Greek for "ignoramus."

  Tryon Edwards

  Greek, Inquiry, Might

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.1423, Ravenio Books

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• Fear is just another word for ignorance.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Ancient Gonzo Wisdom”, p.320, Pan Macmillan

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