Quotes about ignorance
ignorance conspiracy
Never ascribe to conspiracy that which can be attributed to ignorance. Penn Jillette
ignorance science admire
Ignorance is always ready to admire itself. Procure yourself critical friends.
ignorance gossip may
It is among uneducated women that we may look for the most confirmed gossips. Goethe tells us there is nothing more frightful than bustling ignorance. Nicolas Chamfort
ignorance views appreciate
Misunderstanding are always cause by the inability of appreciating one another's point of view. The best way to dispel ignorance of the doings of others is by a systematic spread of general knowledge. With this object in view, it is most important to aid exchange of thoughts intercourse. Nikola Tesla
ignorance evil effort
Of all the frictional resistances, the one that most retards human movement is ignorance, what Buddha called 'the greatest evil in the world.' The friction which results from ignorance ... can be reduced only by the spread of knowledge and the unification of the heterogeneous elements of humanity. No effort could be better spent.
ignorance acceptance odds
Probability is not a mere computation of odds on the dice or more complicated variants; it is the acceptance of the lack of certainty in our knowledge and the development of methods for dealing with our ignorance. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
ignorance knowledge information
Information is bad for knowledge.
ignorance knowledge together
It has been more profitable for us to bind together in the wrong direction than to be alone in the right one.
ignorance knowledge limits
Don't ask the barber whether you need a haircut, and don't ask an academic if what he does is relevant.
ignorance math statistics
Statistics: the mathematical theory of ignorance. Morris Kline
ignorance average cosmetics
The thing that bugs me is the average woman's complete ignorance of the functional purpose of cosmetics, which is to supplement, not conceal. Montgomery Clift
ignorance people knows
The know-nothings are, unfortunately, seldom the do-nothings. Mignon McLaughlin
ignorance adrenaline adrenaline-rush
I pretty much operate on adrenaline and ignorance. Johnny Knoxville
ignorance profound wells
To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance. John Ruskin
ignorance responsibility
The plea of ignorance will never take away our responsibilities.
ignorance humanity imperfect
Ignorance, which is contented and clumsy, will produce what is imperfect, but not offensive. But ignorance dis contented and dexterous, learning what it cannot understand, and imitating what it cannot enjoy, produces the most loathsome forms of manufacture that can disgrace or mislead humanity.
ignorance world bliss
If ignorance is bliss, why isn't the world happier? Mark Twain
ignorance invincible infallibility
Infallibility and invincible ignorance are the same thing. Mason Cooley
ignorance skills names
What is intelligence, anyway It is only a word that people use to name those unknown processes with which our brains solve problems we call hard. But whenever you learn a skill yourself, you're less impressed or mystified when other people do the same. This is why the meaning of 'intelligence' seems so elusive: It describes not some definite thing but only the momentary horizon of our ignorance about how minds might work. Marvin Minsky
ignorance vices foundation
Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up. Mary Astell
ignorance drug television
Television, the drug of the nation, breeding ignorance and feeding radiation... Michael Franti
ignorance knowing understanding
To act without clear understanding, to form habits without investigation, to follow a path all one's life without knowing where it really leads; such is the behavior of the multitude. Mencius
ignorance writing three
Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature. Oscar Wilde
ignorance stupidity differentiate
Learn to differentiate between ignorance and stupidity.
ignorance self mad
So much had been surrendered! And to such little purpose! There had been mad wilful rejections, monstrous forms of self-torture and self-denial, whose origin was fear and whose result was a degradation infinitely more terrible than that fancied degradation from which, in their ignorance, they had sought to escape.
ignorance modern-journalism giving
There is much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. By carefully chronicling the current events of contemporary life, it shows us of what very little importance such events really are. By invariably discussing the unnecessary, it makes us understand what things are requisite for culture, and what are not.
ignorance natural
I do not approve of anything which tampers with natural ignorance
ignorance community public-opinion
Public Opinion... an attempt to organize the ignorance of the community, and to elevate it to the dignity of physical force.
ignorance
The more one learns, the more he understands his ignorance. Louis L'Amour
ignorance appreciate
Only one who has learned much can fully appreciate his ignorance.
ignorance roots feminist
There may be women to emerge who will be able to formulate a new and possible concept that homosexual persecution and condemnation has at its roots not only social ignorance, but a philosophically active anti-feminist dogma. Lorraine Hansberry
ignorance hatred prejudice
Love transcends international boundaries. It heals the wounds of racial hatred, prejudice, bigotry and ignorance. Michael Jackson
ignorance prejudice
Prejudice is ignorance.