Quotes with ignorance

  • It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
  • Ignorance of God's prophetic outline, failure to know God's program for the Church, the nations, and Israel, is the cause of the overwhelming amount of error and misunderstanding of the events of the future.
  • If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.
  • In a World where people are surrounded by darkness, ignorance and fear, it is a sign of hope to be celebrating Islam's message of peace and light, and the last great Messenger, born and chosen to deliver them to all mankind.
  • The origin of all science is the desire to know causes, and the origin of all false science and imposture is the desire to accept false causes rather than none; or, which is the same thing, in the unwillingness to acknowledge our own ignorance.
  • Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.
  • And capital punishment, however ineffective it may be and through whatever ignorance it may be resorted to, is a strictly defensive act, - at least in theory.
  • History is full of people who out of fear or ignorance or the lust for power have destroyed treasures of immeasurable value which truly belong to all of us. We must not let it happen again.
  • The trouble with most folks ain't so much their ignorance as knowing so many things that ain't so.
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  • Mark Twain Everything you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • P. J. O'Rourke Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
    P. J. O'Rourke
    American journalist (1947 - )
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  • Benjamin Franklin Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Joseph Addison Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of mankind.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Herbert Spencer A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
    Herbert Spencer
    British Philosopher (1820 - 1903)
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  • Louis D. Brandeis Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.
    Louis D. Brandeis
    American lawyer and associate justice on the Supreme Court (1856 - 1941)
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  • Janet Malcolm Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible. He is a kind of confidence man, preying on people's vanity, ignorance, or loneliness, gaining their trust and betraying them without remorse.
    Janet Malcolm
     
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Fear always springs from ignorance.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Thomas Carlyle I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Leo Buscaglia If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.
    Leo Buscaglia
    American author and motivational speaker (1924 - 1998)
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  • Martin Luther King Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Bhagavad Gita Out of compassion I destroy the darkness of their ignorance. From within them I light the lamp of wisdom and dispel all darkness from their lives.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • Confucius Real knowledge is to know the extent of ones ignorance.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Elizabeth Stuart Phelps A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission.
    Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
    American author, feminist and intellectual (1844 - 1911)
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  • Bob Edwards A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.
    Bob Edwards
    American broadcast journalist
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  • Anatole France A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • Charles F. Kettering A person must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.
    Charles F. Kettering
    American inventor (1876 - 1958)
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  • Reinhold Niebuhr A wise architect observed that you could break the laws of architectural art provided you had mastered them first. That would apply to religion as well as to art. Ignorance of the past does not guarantee freedom from its imperfections.
    Reinhold Niebuhr
    American theologist, historian (1892 - 1971)
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  • Will Rogers All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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