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Ignorance Quotes

Internet outrage can seem mindless, but it rarely is. To make that assumption is dismissive. There's something beneath the outrage - an unwillingness to be silent in the face of ignorance, hatred or injustice. Outrage may not always be productive, but it is far better than silence.

Ignorance Silence Face Better Silent

Ah, to be a conservative climate change denier. While real scientists must do all the research and engage in heated debates about just how bad things are going to be, the deniers can rest easy in the bliss of willful ignorance.

Change Ignorance Research Rest Bad

If a novelist had concocted a villain like Trump - a larger-than-life, over-the-top avatar of narcissism, mendacity, ignorance, prejudice, boorishness, demagoguery, and tyrannical impulses, she or he would likely be accused of extreme contrivance and implausibility.

Michiko Kakutani

Ignorance Villain Prejudice She Like

Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.

Passion Wisdom Ignorance Darkness

I really wish there was some big brother conspiracy theory. I just think it's the ignorance of trying to make a dollar. That's what the networks have done and will continue to do. If anyone doesn't think that this is about making money, then they're crazy.

Montel Williams

Ignorance Money Brother Crazy Think

Of those beings who live in ignorance, shut up and confined, as it were, in an egg, I have first broken the eggshell of ignorance and alone in the universe obtained the most exalted, universal Buddhahood.

Live Alone Ignorance Broken Universe

Seventy percent of the fish we eat is black market, fished in violation of international laws. Our ignorance makes us unwilling partners in crime. Rogue economics is turning the global market into our worst nightmare.

Loretta Napoleoni

Ignorance Economics Black Fish Worst

Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.

Bertrand Russell

Knowledge Ignorance Not Knowing Sense

I do not believe 'Newsweek' is the only catcher in the rye between democracy and ignorance, but I think we're one of them, and I don't think there are that many on the edge of that cliff.

Ignorance Democracy Believe Think

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

Smile Ignorance Tree Fruit Reach

Bohemia isn't somewhere an artist runs to escape society. It's a place where like-minded artists gather to plot the downfall of dogma and ignorance.

Ignorance Society Artist Place Plot

In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance.

Theodore Dreiser

Wisdom Ignorance Order Must

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Fear Ignorance Things Our Proportion

Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Ignorance Yourself Understanding You

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.

Home Ignorance You Privacy More

So when you spot violence, or bigotry, or intolerance or fear or just garden-variety misogyny, hatred or ignorance, just look it in the eye and think, 'The good outnumber you, and we always will.'

Good Fear Ignorance Eye Think Look

Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance.

Arnold H. Glasow

Fear Ignorance Shadow

Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart.

Marguerite Gardiner

Ignorance Men Chains Keep Apart

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.

Moment Ignorance Curiosity You Seize

'Belief' means something that you do not know. You want to assume and bring a certainty to something that you do not know. That means you are concretising your ignorance. There is no need to believe anything.

Ignorance Believe You Know Want

Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

William Shakespeare

God Knowledge Ignorance Fly Heaven

There is no sinfulness in the will and affections without some error in the understanding. All lusts which a natural man lives in, are lusts of ignorance.

George Gillespie

Ignorance Man Understanding Will

The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.

Ignorance Greater Dogmatism

Acquaint yourself with your own ignorance.

Ignorance Yourself Own Your

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