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• Religious leaders will always avail themselves of public ignorance for their own purpose.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Atheist, Leader

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• The real argument against aristocracy is that it always means the rule of the ignorant. For the most dangerous of all forms of ignorance is ignorance of work.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Real, Mean, Ignorant

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• As life in general constituted much pain in the form of struggles against poverty, disease, ignorance, and emotional anguish, what more civilized way for people to alleviate the same than by giving themselves to one another as brothers and sisters in deed as well as in word? A society of people hoping to become politically superior needed first to become spiritually valid.

  Aberjhani

  Love, Life, Brother

  Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.102, Lulu.com

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• You bring me the deepest joy that can be felt by a man whose invincible belief is that Science and Peace will triumph over Ignorance and War, that nations will unite, not to destroy, but to build, and that the future will belong to those who will have done most for suffering humanity.

  Louis Pasteur

  War, Science, Men

  Speech at celebration honoring his seventieth birthday, the Sorbonne, Paris, France (December 27, 1892); "The life of Pasteur" by René Vallery-Radot, translated by Mrs. R. L. Devonshire, Vol. 2, (p. 297), 1902.

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• If we're able to identify our own ignorance, we can identify someone else's expertise. We learn how to listen to each other. And that is the foundation of human understanding.

  Ted Koppel

  Teamwork, Understanding, Foundation

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• It is, however, a most astonishing but incontestable fact, that the history of the evolution of man as yet constitutes no part of general education. Indeed, our so-called "educated classes" are to this day in total ignorance of the most important circumstances and the most remarkable phenomena which Anthropogeny has brought to light.

  Ernst Haeckel

  Science, Men, Light

  Ernst Haeckel (1883). “The Evolution of Man: A Popular Exposition of the Principal Points of Human Ontogeny and Phylogeny”

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• Do not fear your enemies. The worst they can do is kill you. Do not fear friends. At worst, they may betray you. Fear those who do not care; they neither kill nor betray, but betrayal and murder exists because of their silent consent.

  Bruno Jasienski

  Betrayal, Fear, Enemy

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• It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.

  William Gibbs McAdoo

  Humility, Men, Religion

  William Gibbs McAdoo (1971). “Crowded years: the reminiscences of William G. McAdoo”, Associated Faculty Pr Inc

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• I refuse to believe in a god who is the primary cause of conflict in the world, preaches racism, sexism, homophobia, and ignorance, and then sends me to hell if I'm 'bad'.

  Mark Fuhrman

  Religious, Atheist, Believe

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• Any formal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious possession - their ignorance.

  Hendrik Willem van Loon

  Failure, Thinking, Precious Possessions

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• His ignorance is encyclopedic.

  Abba Eban

  Sarcastic, Clever, Sarcasm

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• God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray.

  John Calvin

  Prayer, Would Be, Praying

  John Calvin “Calvin: Institutes of the Christian Religion”, Westminster John Knox Press

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• “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.” This sentence alone would save mankind, if all books and prophets were lost. This purity of heart will bring the vision of God. It is the theme of the whole music of this universe. In purity is no bondage. Remove the veils of ignorance by purity; then we manifest ourselves as we really are and know that we were never in bondage. The seeing of 'many' is the great sin of all the world. See all as Self and love all; let all idea of separateness go.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Jesus, Book, Blessed

  "Inspired Talks by Swami Vivekananda".

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• Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature.

  Oscar Wilde

  Writing, Three, Literature

  Intentions "The Critic as Artist" pt. 1 (1891)

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• Wisdom leads to unity, but ignorance to separation.
  So long as God seems to be outside and far away, there is ignorance.
  But when God is realised within, that is true knowledge.

  Ramakrishna

  Long, Meditation, Unity

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• It takes a while to grasp that not all failures are self-imposed, the result of ignorance, carelessness or inexperience. It takes a while to grasp that a garden isn't a testing ground for character and to stop asking, what did I do wrong? Maybe nothing.

  Eleanor Perenyi

  Failure, Character, Garden

  Eleanor Perenyi (2010). “Green Thoughts: A Writer in the Garden”, p.65, Modern Library

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• To attempt social reform, educational reform, industrial expansion, the moral improvement of the race without aiming, first and foremost, at political freedom is the very height of ignorance and futility.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Educational, Race, Justice

  Sri Aurobindo Mandir, Calcutta, Aurobindo Ghose (1947). “Annual”

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• Can anything be more absurd than keeping women in a state of ignorance, and yet so vehemently to insist on their resisting temptation?

  Vicesimus Knox

  Justice, Diversity, Temptation

  In Mary Wollstonecraft 'A Vindication of the Rights of Woman' (1792) ch. 7

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• There is nothing harder than the softness of indifference.

  Juan Montalvo

  Inspirational, Justice, Diversity

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• It is not till it is discovered that high individual incomes will not purchase the mass of mankind immunity from cholera, typhus, and ignorance, still less secure them the positive advantages of educational opportunity and economic security, that slowly and reluctantly, amid prophecies of moral degeneration and economic disaster, society begins to make collective provision for needs which no ordinary individual, even if he works overtime all his life, can provide himself.

  R. H. Tawney

  Educational, Opportunity, Justice

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• The realization of ignorance is the first act of knowing.

  Jean Toomer

  Knowing, Justice, Diversity

  Jean Toomer (2003). “The Uncollected Works of American Author Jean Toomer, 1894-1967”, Edwin Mellen Press

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• The Americans say that we are ungrateful-but I ask them for heaven's sake, what should we be grateful to them for-for murdering our fathers and mothers?-Or do they wish us to return thanks to them for chaining and handcuffing us, branding us, cramming fire down our throats, or for keeping us in slavery, and beating us nearly or quite to death to make us work in ignorance and miseries, to support them and their families. They certainly think we are a gang of fools.

  David Walker

  Mother, Father, Grateful

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• Mediation and reconciliation work is about a profound quest for justice and social transformation. But at the same time, they are about service, solidarity, about exploring and rediscovering the human spirit that has been lost or shattered through human conflict, cruelty, ignorance and greed.

  Hizkias Assefa

  Profound, Justice, Greed

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• preach, my dear Sir, a crusade against ignorance; establish & improve the law for educating the common people.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Wisdom, Educational, Law

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1859). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence”, p.8

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• There are three ways in which a ruler can bring misfortune on his army: By commanding the army to advance or to retreat, being ignorant of the fact that it cannot obey. This is called hobbling the army. By attempting to govern an army in the same way as he administers a kingdom, being ignorant of the conditions which obtain in an army. This causes restlessness in the soldier's minds. By employing the officers of his army without discrimination, through ignorance of the military principle of adaptation to circumstances. This shakes the confidence of the soldiers.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, Military, War

  Sun Tzu (2010). “The Art of War”, p.10, Cosimo, Inc.

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