Ignorance Quotes - Page 20

• A wise ignorance is an essential part of knowledge.

  Plato

  Wise, Essentials

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• Ignorance of God and of ourselves is the great principle and cause of all our disquietments; and, this ariseth mostly not from want of light and instruction, but for want of consideration and application.

  John Owen

  Light, Principles, Want

  John Owen (1851). “The Works ...”, p.637

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• Never ascribe to conspiracy that which can be attributed to ignorance.

  Penn Jillette

  Conspiracy

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• We have found it of paramount importance that in order to progress, we must recognize our ignorance and leave room for doubt.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Order, Doubt, Progress

  Richard P. Feynman (2011). “"What Do You Care What Other People Think?": Further Adventures of a Curious Character”, p.263, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The pandering and ignorance-across-party-lines represented by the John McCain-Hillary Clinton united front for a temporary reduction in the gasoline tax should make Americans hold their heads in their hands and moan [...] Please. This is embarrassing. It makes me long for the good old days of debating about flag pins on the lapel.

  James Fallows

  Party, Hands, Long

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• The only enemy is ignorance. Peace, people. Let's get rid of all this nuclear testing.

  Jon Bon Jovi

  People, Enemy, Nuclear

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• Remain alert about your blindness, about your fear, about your ignorance, and just your alertness will dispel
  the whole darkness of blindness, of fear, of ignorance.

  Rajneesh

  Darkness, Alertness, Blindness

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• To use a big word or a foreign word when a small one and a familiar one will answer the same purpose, is a sign of ignorance. Great scholars and writers and polite speakers use simple words.

  Joseph Devlin

  Simple, Purpose, Use

  Joseph Devlin (2014). “How to Speak and Write Correctly (illustrated): Fully Formatted Version”, p.4, Full Moon Publications

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• Just as darkness is born of the absence of light, the shadow side of our collective experience is born of ignorance of the underlying truth of the unity of life.

  John Hagelin

  Light, Darkness, Unity

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• When someone says something dunderheaded to me about the material, it's usually a big neon sign revealing their own damage or ignorance, so my compassion kicks in.

  Lidia Yuknavitch

  Compassion, Neon, Damage

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I can't believe the ignorance there, so I don't allow it to affect my life, I don't allow it to come into my zone, and it's not in my world, really.

  Valerie June

  Believe, World, Zone

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• One of the unspoken themes that I'm grappling with in Day of Honey is the relationship between violence and cosmopolitanism. It's one thing to comprehend violence as an outgrowth of ignorance, poverty, and backwardness. It's another matter entirely to confront incredible atrocities in a country with a rich civic and intellectual life.

  Annia Ciezadlo

  Country, Intellectual, Atrocities

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• But if we keep denying that there are problems with some male immigrants, then we will just drive the people into the arms of the right-wing populists. Without the ignorance or the trivialization on the part of all the political parties, there would be no Pegida or Alternative for Germany.

  Alice Schwarzer

  Party, Wings, People

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Regarding fiction, our concern shouldn't be the author's origin (and of course I am forgetting the sales people right here), because that is actually merely a simplified, almost insulting judgment of the book by its cover - or rather by the name and origin of its author - an act of discrimination if we want to say it in a more provoking way, but at the least an act of ignorance and false empathy.

  Sasa Stanisic

  Book, Names, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The film and media technology that's available today is going to be the most potent weapon in our arsenal in tackling ideological intolerance and ignorance, as well as the kind of fear and stereotyping that can dehumanize the others as the enemy, as being somehow less entitled to the privileges and the aspirations that we have.

  Queen Noor of Jordan

  Technology, Media, Enemy

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• Ignorance is never out of style. It was in fashion yesterday, it is the rage today and it will set the pace tomorrow.

  Frank Dane

  Funny, Fashion, Yesterday

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• Dieu, c'est le voile mystérieux sous lequel nous cachons notre ignorance de la cause première.
  God is the mysterious veil under which we hide our ignorance of the cause.

  Leo Errera

  God, Science, Veils

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• God is the mysterious veil under which we hide our ignorance of the cause.

  Leo Errera

  Ignorant, Veils, Causes

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• In the beginning, passion and pain were not created together with the body; nor forgetfulness and ignorance together with the soul; nor the ever-changing impressions in the shape of events with the mind. All these things were brought about in man by his disobedience.

  Maximus the Confessor

  God, Truth, Pain

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• There are petty-minded people who cannot endure to be reminded of their ignorance because, since they are usually quite blind to all things, quite foolish, and quite ignorant, they never question anything, and are persuaded that they see clearly what in fact they never see at all, save through the darkness of their own dispositions.

  Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

  People, Darkness, Ignorant

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• Pettiness of mind, ignorance and presumption are the cause of stubbornness, because stubborn people only want to believe what they themselves can imagine, and they can imagine very few things.

  Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

  Believe, People, Mind

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• Even the best-natured people, if uninstructed, are always blind and uncertain. We must take pains to instruct ourselves so that ignorance makes us neither too timid nor too bold.

  Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

  Pain, People, Blind

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• Ignorance makes for weakness and fear; knowledge gives strength and confidence. Nothing surprises an intellect that knows all things with a sense of discrimination.

  Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

  Fear, Knowledge, Giving

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• It doesn't matter if your ignorant so long as you can find people to know stuff for you.

  K.J. Parker

  Long, People, Ignorant

  K. J. Parker (2009). “Evil For Evil: The Engineer Trilogy: Book Two”, p.80, Hachette UK

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• Study and research into truth often only serves to make us see by experience our natural ignorance.

  Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

  Truth, Research, Study

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