Quotes with ignorance

Quotes 101 till 120 of 201.

  • Desiderius Erasmus Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't - it's human.
    Desiderius Erasmus
    Dutch humanist and philosopher (1469 - 1536)
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  • Anna Garlin Spencer Of all the wastes of human ignorance perhaps the most extravagant and costly to human growth has been the waste of the distinctive powers of womanhood after the child-bearing age.
    Anna Garlin Spencer
    American educator and feminist (1851 - 1931)
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  • Bryant H. McGill One column of truth cannot hold an institution of ideas from falling into ignorance. It is wiser that a person of prudence and purpose save his strength for battles that can be won.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Elbert Hubbard One who limits himself to his chosen mode of ignorance.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Plato Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Gustave Flaubert Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
    Gustave Flaubert
    French writer (1821 - 1880)
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  • Will Durant Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
    Will Durant
    American writer, historian, and philosopher (1885 - 1981)
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  • Hunter S. Thompson Paranoia is just another word for ignorance.
    Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century (2004)
    Hunter S. Thompson
    American journalist (1937 - 2005)
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  • Graham Greene Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance.
    Graham Greene
    English writer (1904 - 1991)
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  • Thomas A. D. Weston Prejudice is just another word for ignorance.
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  • William Hazlitt Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Bruce Sterling Privacy under what circumstance? Privacy at home under what circumstances? You have more privacy if everyone's illiterate, but you wouldn't really call that privacy. That's ignorance.
    Bruce Sterling
    American science fiction author (1954 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde Public Opinion... an attempt to organize the ignorance of the community, and to elevate it to the dignity of physical force.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Guy Debord Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.
    Guy Debord
    French philosopher (1931 - 1994)
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  • Aldous Huxley Reality cannot be ignored except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price that must be paid.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Johann Gottfried Von Herder Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.
    Johann Gottfried Von Herder
    German poet and theologian (1744 - 1803)
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  • Lord George Byron Science is but the exchange of ignorance for that which is another kind of ignorance.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Samuel Butler Science, after all, is only an expression for our ignorance of our own ignorance.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • William Wirt Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts; for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance.
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  • Garrison Keillor Selective ignorance, a cornerstone of child rearing. You don't put kids under surveillance: it might frighten you. Parents should sit tall in the saddle and look upon their troops with a noble and benevolent and extremely nearsighted gaze.
    Garrison Keillor
    American humoristic writer (1942 - )
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