Quotes with ignorance

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  • Bruce Sterling The level of ignorance is declining, and the ability to accumulate data and manipulate it for various ends is increasing.
    Bruce Sterling
    American science fiction author (1954 - )
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  • Sacha Guitry The little I know I owe to my ignorance.
    Sacha Guitry
    French playwright, actor and director (ps. of Alexandre Georges- (1885 - 1957)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
    Henrietta Temple (1837) IV, ch 1
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Serge Daney The media no longer ask those who know something to share that knowledge with the public. Instead they ask those who know nothing to represent the ignorance of the public and, in so doing, to legitimate it.
    Serge Daney
    French movie critic
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Mark Twain The older we grow the greater becomes our wonder at how much ignorance one can contain without bursting one's clothes.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Socrates The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • Brian Hwang The opposite of love is not hate, the opposite of love is ignorance.
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  • William Hazlitt 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.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Aldous Huxley The pleasures of ignorance are as great in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Count Axel Gustafsson Oxenstierna The quantity of books in a person's library, is often a cloud of witnesses to the ignorance of the owner.
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  • Frank A. Clark The reason there's so much ignorance is that those who have it are so eager to share it.
    Frank A. Clark
    American politician
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  • George Bernard Shaw The road to ignorance is paved with good editors.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Bhagavad Gita The sage awakes to light in the night of all creatures. That which the world calls day is the night of ignorance to the wise.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • John Maynard Keynes The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future.
    John Maynard Keynes
    British economist (1883 - 1946)
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  • Gerard De Nerval The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.
    Gerard De Nerval
    French writer, poet (1808 - 1855)
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  • Josh Billings The trouble with most folks ain't so much their ignorance as knowing so many things that ain't so.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Samuel Butler The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Winston Churchill The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Benjamin Robbins Curtis There are many causes why a people politically ignorant cannot be roused to action. Perfect political ignorance must be accompanied by indifference to the general interests of society, and thus one of the most powerful motives which can act on the human mind is totally destroyed.
    Benjamin Robbins Curtis
    American attorney (1809 - 1874)
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