Quotes about ignorance
ignorance judgement criticism
Contemporary criticism only represents the amount of ignorance genius has to contend with. . . . Time will reverse the judgement of the vulgar. Percy Bysshe Shelley
ignorance study funny-exam
The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.
ignorance men precious-gifts
Great things are accomplished by those who do not feel the impotence of man. This is a precious gift. Paul Valery
ignorance dark zeppelins
I plead total ignorance to Led Zeppelin. I am totally in the dark about them. Karen O
ignorance men said
I repent me of the ignorance wherein I ever said that God made man out of nothing: there is no nothing out of which to make anything; God is all in all, and he made us out of himself. George MacDonald
ignorance men long
Happy the man who lives long enough to acknowledge his ignorance Elizabeth Goudge
ignorance use shows
What the use of having ignorance if you can't show it? Lou Costello
ignorance virtue eternity
Shall ignorance of good and ill Dare to direct the eternal will? Seek virtue, and of that possest, To Providence resign the rest. John Gay
ignorance writing reality
The absurdly neurotic role you and the rest of your kind have always attributed to me Erato, the Goddess Muse of Erotic Poetry bears no relation at all to reality. As a matter of fact, I was trained as a clinical psychologist. Who simply happens to have specialized in the mental illness that you, in your ignorance, call literature. John Fowles
ignorance privilege cost
The privileges of knowledge have to be bought at the cost of the consolations of ignorance.
ignorance survival-skills skills
Elective ignorance was a great survival skill, perhaps the greatest. Jonathan Franzen
ignorance home color
So many people shy away from using color in their homes for fear of getting it wrong...But ignorance and fear are no reason to live in a bland box. Jonathan Adler
ignorance creative way
In fact, the only way to remain creative over time--to not be undone by our expertise--is to experiment with ignorance, to stare at things we don't fully understand. Jonah Lehrer
ignorance comfort
Don't censor yourself to comfort their ignorance. Jon Stewart
ignorance comfort
I’m not going to censor myself to comfort your ignorance
ignorance epidemics evil
Evil is relatively rare. Ignorance is epidemic.
ignorance sacrifice compassion
To sacrifice the principles of manners, which require compassion and respect, and bat people over the head with their ignorance of etiquette rules they cannot be expected to know is both bad manners and poor etiquette. That social climbers and twits have misused etiquette throughout history should not be used as an argument for doing away with it. Judith Martin
ignorance skills ideas
Like language, a code of manners can be used with more or less skill, for laudable or for evil purposes, to express a great variety of ideas and emotions. In itself, it carries no moral value, but ignorance in use of this tool is not a sign of virtue.
ignorance religious-truth corruption
Ecclesiastical establishments tend to great ignorance and corruption James Madison
ignorance forever
Knowledge will forever govern ignorance.
ignorance mean earth
There are, however, some potentates I would kill by any and all means at my disposal. They are Ignorance, Superstition, and Bigotry — the most sinister and tyrannical rulers on earth. Emma Goldman
ignorance men primitive-man
The conception of gods originated in fear and curiosity. Primitive man, unable to understand the phenomena of nature, and harassed by them, saw in every terrifying manifestation some sinister force expressly directed against him; and as ignorance and fear are the parents of all superstition, the troubled fancy of primitive man wove the God idea.
ignorance humanity atheism
The worker who knows the cause of his misery, who understands the make-up of our iniquitous social and industrial system can do more for himself and his kind than Christ and the followers of Christ have ever done for humanity; certainly more than meek patience, ignorance, and submission have done.
ignorance mean men
No revolution can ever succeed as a factor of liberation unless the MEANS used to further it be identical in spirit and tendency with the PURPOSES to be achieved. Revolution is the negation of the existing, a violent protest against man's inhumanity to man with all the thousand and one slaveries it involves. It is the destroyer of dominant values upon which a complex system of injustice, oppression, and wrong has been built up by ignorance and brutality. It is the herald of NEW VALUES, ushering in a transformation of the basic relations of man to man, and of man to society.
ignorance reality men
The State has no more existence than gods and devils have. They are equally the reflex and creation of man, for man, the individual, is the only reality. The State is but the shadow of man, the shadow of his opaqueness, of his ignorance and fear.
ignorance writing long
There's a lot of ignorance about how long it takes to write a novel. There's a lot of ignorance about how long a novel is in your head before you start to write it. John Irving
ignorance knowledge envy
Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be sin to know, Can it be death? And do they only stand By ignorance? Is that their happy state, The proof of their obedience and their faith? O fair foundation laid whereon to build Their ruin! John Milton
ignorance sight light
Tis the most certain sign, the world's accurst That the best things corrupted, are the worst; 'Twas the corrupted Light of knowledge, hurl'd Sin, Death, and Ignorance o'er all the world; That Sun like this (from which our sight we have) Gaz'd on too long, resumes the light he gave. John Denham
ignorance divine-will divine
Faith consists, not in ignorance, but in knowledge, and that, not only of God, but also of the divine will. John Calvin
ignorance expression names
The idea of protoplasm, which was really a name for our ignorance, [is] only a little less misleading than the expression "Vital force". John B. S. Haldane
ignorance names ideas
It was a reaction from the old idea of "protoplasm", a name which was a mere repository of ignorance.
ignorance science hands
There's a great difference between knowing that a thing is so, and knowing how to use that knowledge for the good of mankind. Thetrouble with a scientist is we quickly tire of our discoveries. We hand them over to people who are not ready for them, while we go off again into the darkness of ignorance, searching for other discoveries, which will be mishandled in just the same way when the time comes. Jimmy Sangster
ignorance matter taste
Taste is a matter of ignorance. If you know what you are tasting, you don't have to taste. Frank Lloyd Wright