Quotes about ignorance
ignorance fighting justice
When you're fighting for social justice, one of my biggest pet peeves is speaking out of ignorance. Eva Longoria
ignorance men light
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
ignorance honest periods
In an honest search for knowledge, you quite often have to abide by ignorance for an indefinite period. Erwin Schrodinger
ignorance littles way
The more immoral we become in big ways, the more puritanical we become in little ways. Florence King
ignorance want willful-ignorance
Don't tell me what I'm doing; I don't want to know. Federico Fellini
ignorance moments natural
There is natural ignorance and there is artificial ignorance. I should say at the present moment the artificial ignorance is about eighty-five per cent. Ezra Pound
ignorance men thinking
I have been judged to be a pessimist but what abyss of ignorance and low egoism is not hidden in one who thinks that Man is the god of himself and that his future can only be triumphant? Eugenio Montale
ignorance humility dwelling
Where there is Love and Wisdom, there is neither Fear nor Ignorance. Where there is Patience and Humility, there is neither Anger nor Annoyance. Where there is Poverty and Joy, there is neither Cupidity nor Avarice. Where there is Peace and Contemplation, there is neither Care nor Restlessness. Where there is the Fear of God to guard the dwelling, there no enemy can enter. Where there is Mercy and Prudence, there is neither Excess nor Harshness. Francis of Assisi
ignorance next generations
The knowledge of one generation is the ignorance of the next. Frances Wright
ignorance race evil
It is in vain that we would circumscribe the power of one half of our race, and that half by far the most important and influential. If they exert it not for good, they will for evil; if they advance not knowledge, they will perpetuate ignorance. Let women stand where they may in the scale of improvement, their position decides that of the race.
ignorance blue giving
One of those flash epiphanies of travel, the realization that worlds you'd love vibrantly exist outside your ignorance of them. The vitality of many lives you know nothing about. The breeze lifting a blue curtain in a doorway billows just the same whether you are lucky enough to observe it or not. Travel gives such jolts. I could live in this town, so how is it that I've never been here before today? Frances Mayes
ignorance rights age
The foundation of our Empire was not laid in the gloomy age of Ignorance and Superstition, but at an Epoch when the rights of mankind were better understood and more clearly defined, than at any former period. George Washington
ignorance science facts
Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts. George Santayana
ignorance animal expression
The whole machinery of our intelligence, our general ideas and laws, fixed and external objects, principles, persons, and gods, are so many symbolic, algebraic expressions. They stand for experience; experience which we are incapable of retaining and surveying in its multitudinous immediacy. We should flounder hopelessly, like the animals, did we not keep ourselves afloat and direct our course by these intellectual devices. Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of fact.
ignorance two political
The two pillars of 'political correctness' are, a) willful ignorance, and b) a steadfast refusal to face the truth. George MacDonald Fraser
ignorance honor aristocracy
Aristocracy's only an admission that certain traits which we call fine - courage and honor and beauty and all that sort of thing - can best be developed in a favorable environment, where you don't have the warpings of ignorance and necessity. F. Scott Fitzgerald
ignorance pride humans
The only thing worse than human ignorance is human pride in that ignorance. George Takei
ignorance knowledge long
To solve a problem is to create new problems, new knowledge immediately reveals new areas of ignorance, and the need for new experiments. At least, in the field of fast reactions, the experiments do not take very long to perform. George Porter
ignorance destiny intention
That which we manifest is before us; we are the creators of our own destiny. Be it through intention or ignorance, our successes and our failures have been brought on by none other than ourselves. Garth Stein
ignorance evil people
Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US. Frederick Douglass
ignorance justice black-history
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, . . . neither persons nor property will be safe.
ignorance giving range
Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities. George Eliot
ignorance acquaintance persons
The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.
ignorance weapons poverty
The ever more sophisticated weapons piling up in the arsenals of the wealthiest and the mightiest can kill the illiterate, the ill, the poor and the hungry, but they cannot kill ignorance, illness, poverty or hunger. Fidel Castro
ignorance mean competition
The selection of a Republican candidate for the presidency of this globalized and expansive empire is - and I mean this seriously - the greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance that has ever been,
ignorance competition idiocy
The greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance that has ever been.
ignorance history silence
There are always some areas world history does not reach, zones of silence and undisturbed ignorance. Fernand Braudel
ignorance harness ready
I had learned to harness ignorance with presumption. I was ready to become an unacknowledged watercolorist. Henry Miller
ignorance study devotion
whatever our ignorance left to itself, and whatever the wounds that other human beings are, we ought to study ourselves with a sort of devotion. Henri Barbusse
ignorance knowledge men
Man never knows what he wants; he aspires to penetrate mysteries and as soon as he has, wants to re-establish them. Ignorance irritates him and knowledge cloys. Henri Frederic Amiel
ignorance passion class
If ignorance and passion are the foes of popular morality, it must be confessed that moral indifference is the malady of the cultivated classes.
ignorance light greed
Ignorance, poverty, and greed must disappear so that light can prevail in all places. Helen Keller
ignorance optimism indifference
There is a dangerous optimism of ignorance and indifference.