Quotes with ignorance

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  • Maya Angelou We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.
    Maya Angelou
    African-American poet and writer (1928 - 2014)
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  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu We are educated in the grossest ignorance, and no art omitted to stifle our natural reason; if some few get above their nurses instructions, our knowledge must rest concealed and be as useless to the world as gold in the mine.
    Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
    English writer (1689 - 1762)
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  • Barry Unsworth We are quite at ease in this no man's land of ignorance and doubt and dispute, absorbed in the ambiguities of trying to reach truth by mixing fact with invention.
    Barry Unsworth
    English writer (1930 - 2012)
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  • Titus Livy We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
    Titus Livy
    Roman historian (59 - 17)
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  • Carl Sagan We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Aldous Huxley We lie to ourselves in order that we may still have the excuse of ignorance, the alibi of stupidity and incomprehension, possessing which we can continue with a good conscience to commit and tolerate the most monstrous crimes.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Thomas Henry Huxley We live in a world which is full of misery and ignorance, and the plain duty of each and all of us is to try to make the little corner he can influence somewhat less miserable and somewhat less ignorant than it was before he entered it.
    Thomas Henry Huxley
    English biologist (1825 - 1895)
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  • H. P. Lovecraft We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.
    H. P. Lovecraft
    American writer (1890 - 1937)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche 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
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • William Ellery Channing We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.
    William Ellery Channing
    American Unitarian minister (1780 - 1842)
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  • Carl Sagan We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Saadi Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.
    Saadi
    Persian poet and literary of the medieval period (1200 - 1292)
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  • Thomas Gray Where ignorance is bliss, 't is folly to be wise.
    Ode on a distant prospect of Eton College
    Thomas Gray
    British poet (1716 - 1771)
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  • Frederick Douglass Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is in an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
    Frederick Douglass
    African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator and writer (1818 - 1895)
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  • St. Francis of Assisi Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.
    St. Francis of Assisi
    Italian saint, founder of the Franciscan monastic order (1182 - 1226)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Where there is no knowledge ignorance calls itself science.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • M. R. Dehaan 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.
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  • Ambrose Bierce Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Learning. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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