Quotes with ignorance

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  • James Baldwin It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Charles Dudley Warner It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous.
    Charles Dudley Warner
    American writer (1829 - 1900)
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  • Arnold H. Glasgow It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge.
    Arnold H. Glasgow
    American editor and businessman (Born as Arnold Henry Glasow) (1905 - 1998)
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  • Andrew Cohen It is not enough to be well-intentioned; one must strive to put those intentions into action in a capable way. One must consider the effect his actions will have on others. Looked at like this, to persist in ignorance is itself dishonorable.
    Andrew Cohen
    American spiritual teacher (1955 - )
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  • James Russell Lowell It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Thomas Sowell It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.
    Thomas Sowell
    American economist, social theorist and political philosopher (1930 - )
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  • Alice Hamilton It was easy to present figures demonstrating the contrast between lead work in the United States under conditions of neglect and ignorance, and comparable work in England and Germany, under intelligent control.
    Alice Hamilton
    American physician, research scientist, and author (1869 - 1970)
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  • Mignon McLaughlin It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
    Mignon McLaughlin
    American writer, editor (1913 - 1983)
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  • Oscar Wilde Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Jeremy Bentham Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.
    Jeremy Bentham
    English philosopher, jurist, and social reformer (1748 - 1832)
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  • Bayard Taylor Learn to live, and live to learn, Ignorance like a fire doth burn, Little tasks make large return.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Buddha Meditation brings wisdom; lack of mediation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what hold you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Aldous Huxley Most ignorance is evincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Aldous Huxley Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Anthony J. D'Angelo Never let your persistence and passion turn into stubbornness and ignorance.
    Anthony J. D'Angelo
    American writer
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  • P. J. O'Rourke No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the sources 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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  • James Baldwin No one knows very much about the life of another. This ignorance becomes vivid, if you love another. Love sets the imagination on fire, and, also, eventually, chars the imagination into a harder element: imagination cannot match love, cannot plunge so deep, or range so wide.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Alfred N. Whitehead Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
    Alfred N. Whitehead
    English philosopher and mathematician (1861 - 1947)
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  • Henry Brooks Adams Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
    Henry Brooks Adams
    American historian (1838 - 1918)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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