Quotes about ignorance
ignorance optimism indifference
There is a dangerous optimism of ignorance and indifference. Helen Keller
ignorance fighting fog
It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog. George Eliot
ignorance may pills
Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug, but when it prescribes pills it may happen to do more harm. George Eliot
ignorance thinking evil
Ignorance ... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it. George Eliot
ignorance
All our ignorance brings us closer to death. George Eliot
ignorance common hours
It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down. George Eliot
ignorance literature hours
Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down. George Eliot
ignorance interesting risk
That's exactly what I'm driving at. 'Basterds' was interesting because it was, in a way, unfamiliar. I thought well, OK. Let's leave the comfort zone and just risk it. Why not? Because, exactly as you said, in a way, by taking that risk, I make up a little bit for my ignorance in the subject, or rather, the genre. Christoph Waltz
ignorance pride knowing
Pride comes from not knowing yourself and the world. The older you grow, and the more you see, the less reason you will find for being proud. Ignorance and inexperience are the pedestal of pride; once the pedestal is removed - pride will soon come down. J. C. Ryle
ignorance stupidity acquaintance
Acquaint yourself with your own ignorance. Isaac Watts
ignorance voice white
Women of color have no call to trust white women until white women take a gander at the world around them, investigate, learn and annihilate ignorance founded in being white in a society where the perspective and voice presented to the general public is white. Inga Muscio
ignorance dynamics violence
Without honoring Whores, we cannot truly understand and transcend the dynamics of violence, destruction and ignorance fostered in our cuntfearing society. Inga Muscio
ignorance healing stupidity
A cure by regression is homeopathic, like healing the damage done by ministers and ignorance with stupidity and Jesuits. Franz Grillparzer
ignorance appreciate fickle
It was clear to me that it wouldn't matter what I did - they would never truly appreciate me or learn what I had to offer. They were far beyond fickle - they were insensible, like kittens,predatory little things, distracted by the first bit of string or shiny bauble that rolled across the floor, and nothing I could ever say or do could possibly make any kind of dent in their willful ignorance. Jeff Lindsay
ignorance growing illusion
It is the illusion of knowledge, not ignorance, that keeps one from growing. Jerry Uelsmann
ignorance stupidity arguing
You can't argue with stupidity. Jermaine Jackson
ignorance humility people
It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it; and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it not. Jeremy Taylor
ignorance proud be-proud
To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance. Jeremy Taylor
ignorance bliss said
Whoever said ignorance was bliss was shortsighted. Jeaniene Frost
ignorance names warning
I thought you'd gotten over your whoring when you left him, Catherine, but it seems you only postponed it." Bones' face turned to stone, and he answered her even before I could snap out an indignant response. "Don't you ever speak to her that way again." There was pure warning in the whip of his words. "You can call me any name you like and more, but I will not stand by while you slander her out of your own ignorance. Jeaniene Frost
ignorance reality errors
Be the best. No negativity. No weakness. No acquiescence to fear or disaster. No errors of ignorance. No evasion to reality Jeff Buckley
ignorance hands circles
Absurd, irreducible; nothing — not even a profound and secret delirium of nature — could explain it. Obviously I did not know everything, I had not seen the seeds sprout, or the tree grow. But faced with this great wrinkled paw, neither ignorance nor knowledge was important: the world of explanations and reasons is not the world of existence. A circle is not absurd, it is clearly explained by the rotation of a straight segment around one of its extremities. But neither does a circle exist. This root, on the other hand, existed in such a way that I could not explain it. Jean-Paul Sartre
ignorance tree lost
A tree which has lost its head will never recover it again, and will survive only as a monument of the ignorance and folly of its Tormentor. George William Curtis
ignorance science order
We must be physicists in order to be creative since so far codes of values and ideals have been constructed in ignorance of physics or even in contradiction to physics. Friedrich Nietzsche
ignorance men light
Of all men living [priests] are our greatest enemies. If it were possible, they would extinguish the very light of nature, turn the world into a dungeon, and keep mankind for ever in chains and darkness. George Berkeley
ignorance knowledge hunting
Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance. George Bernard Shaw
ignorance artist jazz
I have to plead basic ignorance of most new jazz artists here. Gary Lucas
ignorance order wings
Surely, God could have caused birds to fly with their bones made of solid gold, with their veins full of quicksilver, with their flesh heavier than lead, and with their wings exceedingly small. He did not, and that ought to show something. It is only in order to shield your ignorance that you put the Lord at every turn to the refuge of a miracle. Galileo Galilei
ignorance originality no-excuses
Originality is no excuse for ignorance. Fred Brooks
ignorance bliss ignorance-is-bliss
They say ignorance is bliss.... they're wrong Franz Kafka
ignorance sometimes bliss
Ignorance, as they say, is usually fatal, but sometimes it can be bliss. Eoin Colfer
ignorance afraid-of-change
Ignorance is always afraid of change. Jawaharlal Nehru
ignorance prejudice tradition
Prejudice is a product of ignorance that hides behind barriers of tradition. Jasper Fforde