Ignorance Quotes - Page 20

• The snapshot has no pretense or ambition. Innocence is the quintessence of the snapshot. I wish to distinguish between innocence and ignorance. Innocence is one of the highest forms of being and ignorance is one of the lowest.

  Lisette Model

  Ambition, Wish, Snapshots

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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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• A secret may be sometimes best kept by keeping the secret of its being a secret. It is not many years since a State secret of the greatest importance was printed without being divulged, merely by sending it to the press like any other matter, and trusting to the mechanical habits of the persons employed. They printed it piecemeal in ignorance of what it was about.

  Henry Taylor

  Years, Secret, May

  Sir Henry Taylor (1957). “The Statesman”

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• Ignorance at twenty-two isn't a structural defect.

  Jesse Lauriston Livermore

  Two, Twenties, Defects

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• It sounds superficially fair. But it presupposes that that there is something in Christian theology to be ignorant about. The entire thrust of my position is that Christian theology is a non-subject. It is empty. Vacuous. Devoid of coherence or content. I imagine that McGrath would join me in expressing disbelief in fairies, astrology and Thor's hammer. How would he respond if a fairyologist, astrologer or Viking accused him of ignorance of their respective subjects?

  Richard Dawkins

  Christian, Astrology, Ignorant

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• We lie to ourselves in order that we may still have the excuse of ignorance, the alibi of stupidity and incomprehension, possessing which we can continue with a good conscience to commit and tolerate the most monstrous crimes.

  Aldous Huxley

  Lying, Order, Stupidity

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

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• By the word simplicity, is not always meant folly or ignorance; but often, pure and upright Nature, free from artifice, craft or deceitful ornament.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Simplicity, Ornaments, Crafts

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.261, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• In trying to explain our political paralysis, analysts cite President Obama's tactical missteps, the obstinacy of congressional Republicans, rising partisanship in Washington, and the Senate filibuster, which has devolved into a super-majority threshold for important legislation. These are large factors to be sure, but that list neglects what may be the biggest culprit of all: the childishness, ignorance, and growing incoherence of the public at large.

  Jacob Weisberg

  Political, Important, Trying

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• Given the unprecedented ignorance of the Bible in contemporary America, it is likely that more young Americans will only know the Noah of 'Noah.' We can only hope that the film offers even a fraction of the wisdom of the original.

  Dennis Prager

  America, Film, Fractions

  Dennis Prager (2015). “Dennis Prager: Volume I”, p.41, Creators Publishing

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• A common error of ignorance is to maintain that what one does not know does not exist.

  Leon Battista Alberti

  Errors, Doe, Common

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• Ignorance is a tough evil to conquer.

  Sophocles

  Evil, Tough, Conquer

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• The opposite of knowledge is not ignorance, but deceit and fraud.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Opposites, Deceit, Fraud

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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