Quotes with self-ignorance

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  • Thomas Jefferson Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Adlai Stevenson II Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.
    address to the United Nations on October 1, 1963
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • William Shakespeare Ignorance is the curse of God, knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Confucius Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon or star.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Edward F. Halifax Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.
    Edward F. Halifax
    British Conservative Statesman (1881 - 1959)
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  • Plato Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Euripides Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.
    Euripides
    Greek tragedian and poet (480 - 406)
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  • Addison Mizner Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.
    Addison Mizner
    American architect (1872 - 1933)
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  • George Eliot Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Arthur Keith In a tribal organization, even in time of peace, service to tribe or state predominates over all self seeking; in war, service for the tribe or state becomes supreme, and personal liberty is suspended.
    Arthur Keith
    Scottish anatomist and anthropologist (1866 - 1952)
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  • Cat Stevens 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.
    Cat Stevens
    British singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1948 - )
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  • Bjork In elections in Iceland, I have always been an abstainer. It seems like politics is such a small bundle of self-important people, who don't have much to do with things I'm interested in.
    Bjork
    Icelandic singer, songwriter and actress (1965 - )
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  • Robert Byrne In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat.
    Robert Byrne
    American author (1928 - 2013)
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  • Albert Bandura In order to succeed, people need a sense of self-efficacy, to struggle together with resilience to meet the inevitable obstacles and inequities of life.
    Albert Bandura
    Canadian-American psychologist (1925 - )
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  • Malcolm Muggeridge In retrospect, all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called, licking the earth.
    Malcolm Muggeridge
    British Broadcaster (1903 - 1990)
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  • Emma Goldman In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, ''until death doth part.''
    Emma Goldman
    American anarchist (1869 - 1940)
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  • Paul Klee In the final analysis, a drawing simply is no longer a drawing, no matter how self-sufficient its execution may be. It is a symbol, and the more profoundly the imaginary lines of projection meet higher dimensions, the better.
    Paul Klee
    Swiss artist (1879 - 1940)
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  • George Eliot In the schoolroom her quick mind had taken readily that strong starch of unexplained rules and disconnected facts which saves ignorance from any painful sense of limpness.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Myriam Miedzian In the United States adherence to the values of the masculine mystique makes intimate, self-revealing, deep friendships between men unusual.
    Myriam Miedzian
    American philosopher and author
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