Ignorance Quotes - Page 23

• One influential philosophical position about the use of probability in science holds that probabilities are objective only if they are based on micro-physics; all other probabilities should be interpreted subjectively, as merely revealing our ignorance about physical details. I have argued against this position, contending that the objectivity of micro-physical probabilities entails the objectivity of macro-probabilities.

  Elliott Sober

  Philosophical, Objectivity, Details

  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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• There is a lot of ignorance, and I don't mean intellectual ignorance. I mean people think that if you get something, it will take away from what I have. It's just ignorance.

  Maya Angelou

  Mean, Thinking, People

  Source: www.azcentral.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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• When you have your own bus, then you have dignity. When you have your own school, you have dignity. When you have your own country, you have dignity.When you have something of your own, you have dignity. But whenever you are begging for a chance to participate in that which belongs to someone else, or use that which belongs to someone else, on an equal basis with the owner, that's not dignity. That's ignorance.

  Malcolm X

  Country, School, Use

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• There's a willful ignorance. We indulge people who are willfully misrepresenting the facts. I don't think those [anti-choice] congresspeople are as much benignly misguided as they are intentionally and willfully ignorant of the facts of reproduction. That lends itself very well to them being ideologically driven and carrying out agendas that, if they were to be really honest about the facts, would be a tougher sell.

  Willie Parker

  Thinking, People, Choices

  Source: m.motherjones.com

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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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• Trump's ignorance in environmental science is a threat to the entire planet.

  Tom Morello

  Environmental, Trump, Planets

  Source: www.billboard.com

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• Fox News and Rush Limbaugh have raised ignorance to ideology and stupefied an entire political party. No more roguish and rowdy band of predators ever did more to demean and despoil the democracy on whose carcass they feed.

  Bill Moyers

  Party, Political, Democracy

  Source: progressive.org

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• Just try to be yourself and resist complacency and ignorance. All you can do is work, work; work and be disciplined.

  Raoul Peck

  Being Yourself, Trying, Complacency

  Source: www.theskanner.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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• We don't, as a collective life on this planet, all get groovy together or all sink into ignorance together. One by one we liberate our souls, our individual souls, from the cycle by our own realizations.

  George Harrison

  Soul, Together, Realization

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• There's this Indian fellow who worked out a cycle like the idea of stone-age, bronze-age, only he did it on an Indian one. The cycle goes from nothing until now and 20th century and then on and right around the cycle until the people are really grooving and then just sinks back into ignorance until it gets back into the beginning again. So the 20th century is a fraction of that cycle, and how many of those cycles has it done yet? It's done as many as you think and all these times it's been through exactly the same things, and it'll be this again.

  George Harrison

  Thinking, Ideas, People

  Source: www.fifthestate.org

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• For me, 9/11 was a game changer. It altered my perception of the security threat we faced. I took the position that Britain should be shoulder to shoulder with the U.S. It was a big decision; I didn't take it lightly, or in ignorance of its consequences. It's a big commitment for a country to give, but I believed it was the right thing to do.

  Tony Blair

  Country, Commitment, Games

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• To break down prejudice is to get to a place of understanding, that can erode the ignorance.

  David Oyelowo

  Understanding, Prejudice, Erode

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• I think it is time for a new pride in the intellectual life, and a new impatience with people who take pride in ignorance, or somehow use "elite" to mean "person who has taken the time to know" and then are eager to dismiss, say, striving, or the notion that improving one's self out of difficult conditions is a noble thing.

  George Saunders

  Taken, Mean, Pride

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• I think that we have basically nothing in the field of human behavior. Maybe that is just a condition of temporary ignorance. But it may be that we are simply not intellectually equipped to develop such a theory.

  Noam Chomsky

  Thinking, May, Fields

  Source: chomsky.info

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• The heartbeat of your originality is deep within a body of thought that continually wrestles with the contradictions and limitations that we're constantly trying to overcome, the curiosities and the ignorances of the people we seek to help.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Heart, People, Curiosity

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I would not even attempt to do a history of world television. I did a half dozen years where I was a juror at the Banff World Media Festival, and you get the best TV in the world there, and I was astounded at my ignorance. I would be watching a documentary made in Japan, and it was astounding, and I would never have heard of that otherwise. We're seeing more and more imports in the last years, and my dream for the next generation of TV is that somehow we get to tap into all of that.

  David Bianculli

  Dream, World, Next Generation

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• You live in a country that's marked by celebrity culture, you know, that basically infantilizes people, paralyzes them, eliminates all notions of civic literacy, turns the school into bastions of ignorance. They completely kill the radical imagination in any fundamental way.

  Henry Giroux

  Country, School, People

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Trump, like that canary in the coalmine, makes clear what elements of fascism are really like. Let's be honest. The racism, the ignorance, the stupidity, the baiting, the great-man affect, this notion that he exists in a circle of certainty that can't be doubted, this kind of perverse hatred of the other. We've seen this before. This legacy is not new. What we have to recognize is the different form that it takes at a different moment in history.

  Henry Giroux

  Racism, Hatred, Stupidity

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I'm trying to make people more alert that mere acceptance isn't a good enough indicator that something is ethical. You actually need to stop and think. Acceptance on the basis of ignorance or deceit is not the same thing as the acceptance on the basis of ongoing vigorous democratic debate.

  Sheila Jasanoff

  Acceptance, Thinking, People

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Indonesian people are living in constant fear, in horror. Often they do not realize it, because this state of mind, this 'living in fear', is considered 'biasa'. This fear, also explains why almost nobody rebels, or is willing to start a rebellion against the regime. People are paralyzed by an abstract fear, which actually has its roots in ignorance and insecurity.

  Andre Vltchek

  People, Insecurity, Mind

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• There are a number of Americans who've been taught that, that the Constitution has nothing to do with immigration. The Declaration of Independence has nothing to do with it. It's the Statue of Liberty. And there is complete and total ignorance about it. And I maintain it's because they have not been taught the truth. And even if they have been taught the truth, they have rejected it in favor of what their political biases happen to be as their political biases relate to their narrative and the agenda.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Political, Independence, Liberty

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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