Ignorant Quotes - Page 19

• One can't understand everything at once, we can't begin with perfection all at once! In order to reach perfection one must begin by being ignorant of a great deal. And if we understand things too quickly, perhaps we shan't understand them thoroughly.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Order, Perfection, Deals

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If you consider yourself a friend, dont tell me." Because if i know the rumors, i'll feel like i have to confront the. and right this second i want to live in ignorant bliss.

  Simone Elkeles

  Rumor, Want, Bliss

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• You are an ignorant schoolgirl. You think civilization is a good thing.

  Tom Robbins

  Thinking, Civilization, Good Things

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.25, Bantam

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• And right this second I want to live in ignorant bliss.

  Simone Elkeles

  Want, Bliss, Ignorant Bliss

  Simone Elkeles (2011). “Perfect Chemistry”, p.258, Simon and Schuster

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• We are as ignorant of the meaning of the dragon as we are of the meaning of the universe.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Dragons, Universe

  Jorge Luis Borges, Margarita Guerrero, Norman Thomas Di Giovanni (1970). “The book of imaginary beings”, Jonathan Cape

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• A good huntress respected her partners instincts, even if he was socially ignorant.

  Ann Aguirre

  Instinct, Partners, Huntress

  Ann Aguirre (2014). “Mortal Danger”, p.365, Macmillan

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• I do not consider myself less ignorant than most people. I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books. I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me. My story is not a pleasant one; it is neither sweet nor harmonious, as invented stories are; it has the taste of nonsense and chaos, of madness and dreams -- like the lives of all men who stop deceiving themselves.

  Hermann Hesse

  Dream, Sweet, Stars

  "Demian". Book by Hermann Hesse, p. 9, 1919.

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• Are not half our lives spent in reproaches for foregone actions, of the true nature and consequences of which we were wholly ignorant at the time?

  Herman Melville

  Half, Action, Reproach

  Herman Melville, Tyrus Hillway (1973). “Mardi: And a Voyage Thither”, p.380, Rowman & Littlefield

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• But Catherine did not know her own advantages - did not know that a good-looking girl, with an affectionate heart and a very ignorant mind, cannot fail of attracting a clever young man, unless circumstances are particularly untoward.

  Jane Austen

  Girl, Clever, Heart

  Jane Austen (2009). “Northanger Abbey”, p.69, Wild Jot Press

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• Men know that women are an overmatch for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or the most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves.

  Samuel Johnson

  Fear, Women, Thinking

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1786). “Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales”, p.257

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• T. Ray said 'Who do you think you are? Julias Shakespeare?' The man sincerely thought that was Shakespeare's first name, and if you think I should have corrected him, you are ignorant about the art of survival.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Art, Men, Thinking

  Sue Monk Kidd (2003). “The Secret Life of Bees”, p.16, Penguin

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• It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.

  St. Jerome

  Ignorance, Stills

  St. Jerome (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Saint Jerome (Annotated Edition)”, p.207, Jazzybee Verlag

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• We can drift along as though there were still a cold war, wasting hundreds of billions of dollars on weapons that will never be used, ignoring the problems of people in this country and around the world, being one of the worst environmental violators on earth, standing against any sort of viable programs to protect the world's forests or to cut down on acid rain or the global warming or ozone depletion. We can ignore human rights violations in other countries, or we can take these things on as true leaders ought to and accept the inspiring challenge of America for the future.

  Jimmy Carter

  Country, War, Rain

  "Nobel Prize for Peace". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. October 25, 1991.

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• Racism is the ultimate ignorance in that it relates 'self' to the body instead of the Consciousness - Awareness - animating and experiencing through the body. It is like judging a man by his spacesuit instead of the person inside it.

  David Icke

  Ignorance, Men, Self

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• Zionism is a subject that all but a few are either too ignorant or too frightened to tackle and expose, but it must be made public and the web dismantled if global tyranny is to be avoided in the very near future.

  David Icke

  Ignorance, Made, Frightened

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• If the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) raises the hackles of the conspiracy theorists, the Bilderberg meetings must induce apocalyptic visions of omnipotent international bankers plotting with unscrupulous government officials to impose cunning schemes on an ignorant and unsuspecting world.

  David Rockefeller

  Ignorance, Government, Vision

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• Populists and isolationists ignore the tangible benefits that have resulted from our active international role during the past half-century.

  David Rockefeller

  Ignorance, Past, Roles

  David Rockefeller (2011). “Memoirs”, p.368, Random House

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• Attainment is a poor measure of capacity, and ignorance no proof of defect.

  Cyril Burt

  Ignorance, Poor, Proof

  Cyril Burt (1922). “Mental And Scholastic Test”

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• Chance ... must be something more than the name we give to our ignorance.

  Henri Poincare

  Ignorance, Science, Names

  Henri Poincare (2012). “The Value of Science: Essential Writings of Henri Poincare”, p.666, Modern Library

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• Ignorance and credulous hope make the market for most proprietary remedies.

  Samuel Hopkins Adams

  Ignorance, Medicine, Remedy

  Collier's Weekly 7 October (1905)

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• It is the inefficiency and sham of ... our schools ... that save us from being dashed on the rocks of false doctrine instead of drifting down the midstream of mere ignorance.

  George Bernard Shaw

  School, Ignorance, Rocks

  George Bernard Shaw (2007). “Back to Methuselah”, p.15, 1st World Publishing

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• The greatest Inventions were produced in Times of Ignorance; as the Use of the Compass, Gunpowder, and Printing; and by the dullest Nation, as the Germans.

  Jonathan Swift

  Ignorance, Science, Gunpowder

  Jonathan Swift (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)”, p.894, Delphi Classics

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• The scientist who yields anything to theology, however slight, is yielding to ignorance and false pretenses, and as certainly as if he granted that a horse-hair put into a bottle of water will turn into a snake.

  H. L. Mencken

  Religious, Horse, Ignorance

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• To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn.

  Isaac Asimov

  Running, Ignorance, Mean

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• Until I became a published writer, I remained completely ignorant of books on how to write and courses on the subject ... they would have spoiled my natural style; made me observe caution; would have hedged me with rules.

  Isaac Asimov

  Book, Writing, Ignorance

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