Quotes about ignorance
ignorance giving advice
Silence is the only answer you should give to the fools. Where ignorance speaks, intelligence should not give advices. Benito Mussolini
ignorance circles drawing
So long as we continued to attach more importance to our own narrow group membership than to the 'global village' we would propagate prejudice and ignorance. There was absolutely no harm in being part of a small group - indeed, with our hunter-gatherer band mentality it gave comfort, provided us with an inner circle of friends who could be utterly trusted, who were absolutely reliable. It helped give us peace of mind. The danger came only from drawing that sharp line, digging that ditch, laying that minefield, between our own group and any other group that thought differently. Jane Goodall
ignorance rights law
Those who want their rights respected under the Constitution and the law ought to set the example themselves of observing the Constitution and the law. While there may be those of high intelligence who violate the law at times, the barbarian and the defective always violate it. Those who disregard the rules of society are not exhibiting a superior intelligence, are not promoting freedom and independence, are not following the path of civilization, but are displaying the traits of ignorance, of servitude, of savagery, and treading the way that leads back to the jungle. Calvin Coolidge
ignorance media television
These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television, but more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance. Alain Badiou
ignorance law profound
Nevertheless so profound is our ignorance, and so high our presumption, that we marvel when we hear of the extinction of an organic being; and as we do not see the cause, we invoke cataclysms to desolate the world, or invent laws on the duration of the forms of life! Charles Darwin
ignorance numbers issues
The people who see the population explosion in the Malthusian way - as a geometric progression - forget that population growth is not a biological issue. People are not increasing in numbers out of stupidity and ignorance. Population growth is an ecological phenomenon linked very intimately to other issues, such as the usurpation of the resources which allow people to live. Vandana Shiva
ignorance past iron
The past was still a Golden Age, of ignorance, while the present is an Iron Age of willful bliss. Jared Diamond
ignorance hands evil
She sits before me, sullen but hopeful, characterless, about to dissolve into tears. I squeeze her hand back, moved, no, touched by her ignorance of evil. She has one more test to pass. Do you own a briefcase?” I ask her, swallowing. Bret Easton Ellis
ignorance vanity causes
The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy. Blaise Pascal
ignorance thinking want
I attribute all my success to ignorance. If you don't ever think about not getting where you want to be, I think it helps you out. Billy Bob Thornton
ignorance prejudice
Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice. Denis Diderot
ignorance dignity mask
Dignity is a mask we wear to hide our ignorance. Elbert Hubbard
ignorance home america
The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.
ignorance thinking government
How fortunate for governments that people do not think. There is no thinking except in giving and executing commands. If it were otherwise human society could not exist. Adolf Hitler
ignorance justice ignorant
Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know. Aldous Huxley
ignorance responsibility numbers
Most ignorances are vincible, and in the greater number of cases stupidity is what the Buddha pronounced it to be, a sin. For, consciously, or subconsciously, it is with deliberation that we do not know or fail to understand-because incomprehension allows us, with a good conscience, to evade unpleasant obligations and responsibilities, because ignorance is the best excuse for going on doing what one likes, but ought not, to do.
ignorance home journey
So the journey is over and I am back again where I started, richer by much experience and poorer by many unexploded certainties. For convictions and certainties are too often the concomitants of ignorance. Those who like to feel they are always right and who attached a high importance to their own opinions should stay at home. When one is traveling, convictions are mislaid as easily as spectacles; but unlike spectacles, they are not easily replaced.
ignorance poverty wealth
No wealth like education and no poverty like ignorance
ignorance unawareness intellect
There is no capital more useful than intellect and wisdom, and there is no indigence more injurious than ignorance and unawareness.
ignorance prejudice stubborn
Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard. Adlai E. Stevenson
ignorance men brotherhood-of-man
On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.
ignorance errors guarantees
We are so proud of our guarantees of freedom in thought and speech and worship, that, unconsciously, we are guilty of one of the greatest errors that ignorance can make - we assume our standard of values is shared by all other humans in the world. Dwight D. Eisenhower
ignorance carpe-diem letters
My alphabet starts with this letter called yuzz. It s the letter I use to spell yuzz a ma tuzz. You ll be sort of surprised what there is to be found once you go beyond Z and start poking around Dr. Seuss
ignorance choices age
In the age of information, ignorance is a choice. Donald Miller
ignorance writing needs
My ignorance is essential. I do not write what I know but what I need to know. Don Murray
ignorance science doubt
True science teaches us to doubt and, in ignorance, to refrain. Claude Bernard
ignorance attachment body
Consciousness will always be present, though a particular consciousness may cease. For example, the particular tactile consciousness that is present within this human body will cease when the body comes to an end. Likewise, consciousnesses that are influenced by ignorance, by anger or by attachment, these too will cease. But the basic, ultimate, innermost subtle consciousness will always remain. It has no beginning, and it will have not end. Dalai Lama
ignorance hatred realization
Ignorance is the source of hatred, and the way to get rid of ignorance is realization.
ignorance commitment greed
Peace and the survival of life on earth as we know it are threatened by human activities which lack a commitment to humanitarian values. Destruction of nature and nature's resources result from ignorance, greed and lack of respect for the earth's living things.
ignorance buddhism self
In Buddhism, ignorance as the root cause of suffering refers to a fundamental misperception of the true nature of the self and all phenomena.
ignorance progress illusion
The history of Western science confirms the aphorism that the great menace to progress is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge. Daniel J. Boorstin
ignorance brain convince
A brain you can convince, a simpleton you have to persuade. Curt Goetz
ignorance men conquer-the-world
Lack of understanding is a great power. Sometimes it enables men to conquer the world. Anatole France