Ignorance Quotes - Page 22

• Racism is nothing more than ignorance, we are in the dessert together at one time in our lives, we got segregated by peoples beliefs of what was true of what we have to have and don't have to have so for me it is all about education.

  John Assaraf

  Racism, Together, Belief

  Source: insearchofheroes.com

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• Attitudes toward gays have shifted much like they have for animals. People have a hard time relating to those who are different and often strike out against them in ignorance. But society is really starting to wise up at last as more enlightened generations emerge.

  Dan Mathews

  Wise, Attitude, Gay

  "Senior VP of PETA Dan Mathews: On gay rights, empathy for animals, and getting married under the Las Vegas sign". Interview with Barbi Twins, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Maybe the same instruments and tools that have been used to keep people in slavery and ignorance could potentially be used to liberate and awaken them.

  Daniel Pinchbeck

  People, Tools, Slavery

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• I am a simple vessel with complex overtones, opinionated on occasions but willing to listen. Comfortable with reclusiveness and devoted to privacy and family. Patriotic to a fault and allergic to cruelty, ignorance and bad music.

  Bernie Taupin

  Patriotic, Simple, Faults

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• We consume far too many animal products, processed and refined foods, saturated fats, and empty calories. Industries that profit from both our ignorance and our misfortune spoon-feed us confusion and deception.

  Kris Carr

  Animal, Confusion, Deception

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• Ignorance is the biggest problem of all for the ocean - and for many other things as well.

  Sylvia Earle

  Ocean, Problem, Wells

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• Sometimes presenting the most ignorant point of view can be the best way to satirize the issue and highlight that ignorance.

  Glenn Howerton

  Views, Issues, Ignorant

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. March 10, 2014.

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• Knowledge will appear in turn the merest ignorance to those who come after us. Yet it is not to be despised, since by it we reach up groping fingers to touch the hem of the garment of the Most High.

  Agnes Mary Clerke

  Hem, Garments, Fingers

  Agnes Mary Clerke (2010). “A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century”, p.453, Cambridge University Press

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• The way to eliminate ignorance is through steady, focused discrimination between the observer and the world.

  Patanjali

  World, Way, Discrimination

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• This son taught that any man who did not believe that piece of ignorance and priestly lying would go to hell and burn eternally in fire and brimstone.

  Charles Chilton Moore

  Lying, Believe, Son

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• I found myself desiring and knowing less and less, until I could say in utter astonishment: "I know nothing, I want nothing." Earlier I was sure of so many things, now I am sure of nothing. But I feel I have lost nothing by not knowing, because all my knowledge was false. My not knowing was in itself knowledge of the fact that all my knowledge is ignorance, that "I do not know" is the only true statement the mind can make....I do not claim to know what you do not. In fact, I know much less than you do.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Knowing, Mind, Astonishment

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• It is a cause of shame to any member of the human race to be a member of the same species some of whose members could vote for any candidate for president that has been offered by the Republican party. Such people seem to be motivated only by short-sighted greed, ignorance, fear and hatred.

  Allen W. Wood

  Party, Race, People

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Whenever any one informs us that he has found a man who knows all the arts, and all things else that anybody knows, and every single thing with a higher degree of accuracy than any other man - whoever tells us this, I think that we can only imagine him to be a simple creature who is likely to have been deceived by some wizard or actor whom he met, and whom he thought all-knowing, because he himself was unable to analyse the nature of knowledge and ignorance and imitation.

  Socrates

  Art, Simple, Men

  Source: www.howtodrawjourney.com

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• The service of India means the service of those teeming millions steeped in poverty, ignorance and disease. To see that in my lifetime we can soften these harsh edges of extreme poverty and unleash a new economic and social revolution which will bring out the latent creativity and entrepreneurial spirit of our people, I think that's what I feel, I think.

  Manmohan Singh

  Mean, Creativity, Thinking

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• That's through intelligence, not through ignorance, believe me. Because some of the things that they're asking you to do [in the Army] and be politically correct about are ridiculous.

  Donald Trump

  Believe, Army, Asking

  Source: time.com

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• When it comes to climate change it's all the usual barriers: greed, mendacity, ignorance, short-sightedness and so on, manifest in the extreme power of corporations, the weakness of government, and the indifference of citizens.

  Dale Jamieson

  Government, Greed, Corporations

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• We have compassion because of the incredible pain and suffering which we as unenlightened beings cause to ourselves and all others through our ignorance. This is why we're trying to get out. This is why the bodhisattva has meaning. Because we're saying, no we won't get out, we won't escape until we've helped all other beings to escape, but most other beings don't even want to escape. They don't even know that there is an escape, and it's hard, so it's going to take an awfully long time.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Pain, Compassion, Long

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• If you look at the history of demagoguery and fascism, it always happens when there are two things. It requires a gentle populace to allow it to happen, whether through laziness, ignorance or ineptitude, but it also requires a very angry, dissatisfied section of the populace who want egregiously simple answers to very complicated problems.

  Moby

  Simple, Two, Ineptitude

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Young people have been ill-educated, mis-educated, propagandized. I see it in everything I read written by young people. You can spot it a mile away, their ignorance. And it's coupled with they think they're the only people that know. They're arrogant. They're a little bit smarmy about what they think they know and nobody else does, which is a characteristic of young people anyway. I was that way when I was young.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Thinking, People, Doe

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Insofar as Trumpism was understood, it was seen as a side-effect of poverty, ignorance and educational failure. A cry from people who deserved sympathy, but who should never be allowed to set the terms of political debate.

  Fraser Nelson

  Educational, People, Political

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• Ignorance, according to the Buddha, is our basic difficulty. Psychedelics and the process of aging make that clear to me all the time.

  Laura Huxley

  Aging, Process, Difficulty

  Source: www.whitelotus.org

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• If you read social media, you can see how immigration is such a hot-button debate and [a hotbed] of ignorance. You know there's guys that say immigrants come here, and they create so much crime and they take jobs. There's multiple sides to every story.

  George Lopez

  Jobs, Media, Guy

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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• There's an awful lot of biblical ignorance, and the church perpetuates that ignorance.

  John Shelby Spong

  Biblical, Church, Awful

  Source: www.thinkpiecepublishing.com

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• Part of the narrative which is sort of supported by the data is that Trump voters are the least educated, and they're voting for Trump out of white solidarity or out of frustration that they're, quote, unquote, "losing their country". And my concern with that is that it sort of reduces the condition of the Trump voter to one of pure ignorance. And I think it's far more complicated.

  Marc Lamont Hill

  Country, Frustration, Thinking

  "Professor Weighs In On Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's Uninformed Voter Comment". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. September 6, 2016.

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• I'm not defending the Trump vote. I think they're making a bad choice. But I'm saying the bad choice isn't one out of pure ignorance, and I think it's too easy. And it plays into cliches about, you know, elitist liberals to say, oh, these Trump voters - if they knew more, they would do better. And it's like, well, maybe they would do better if we had a legitimate set of policies in place that doesn't encourage the kind of gross radicalization that has happened under the Trump candidacy. So for me, it's all about developing a richer conversation.

  Marc Lamont Hill

  Thinking, Play, Choices

  Source: www.npr.org

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