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Ignorance Quotes

Liberals sit from this lofty perch of pomposity, but they are the champions of ignorance. They don't know what they're talking about.

Ignorance Talking Champions Know Sit

A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission.

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

Great Ignorance Ideas World More

Scientists habitually moan that the public doesn't understand them. But they complain too much: public ignorance isn't peculiar to science. It's sad if some citizens can't tell a proton from a protein. But it's equally sad if they're ignorant of their nation's history, can't speak a second language, or can't find Venezuela or Syria on a map.

Sad Science History Ignorance Speak

I think what a life in science really teaches you is the vastness of our ignorance.

Life Science Ignorance Think You

In North America, the greatest threat to the Jewish people is not the external force of antisemitism, but the internal forces of apathy, inertia and ignorance of our own heritage.

Michael Steinhardt

Ignorance People America Heritage

A person must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.

Charles Kettering

Ignorance Intelligence Person Get

Africa should not again face isolation or stigmatisation based on ignorance and unrepresentative imagery.

Ignorance Face Isolation Africa

As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.

Ignorance Men Death Fight Happy

If you are kept in ignorance of the true way and permit yourself to rely upon and be guided by the opinion of imperfect man, you can never gain the riches that will bring you peace and lasting happiness.

Joseph Franklin Rutherford

Happiness Ignorance Peace Man You

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.

Ignorance Know Want Because Most

I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance.

Ignorance Know Nothing Fact Except

Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

Education Ignorance Discovery Know

Four hundred or so people lived in Knockemstiff in 1957, nearly all of them connected by blood through one godforsaken calamity or another, be it lust or necessity or just plain ignorance.

Donald Ray Pollock

Ignorance People Lust Blood Lived

I've always thought that when they say ignorance is bliss, the converse to that is that knowledge is hell. The more you know, the bleaker things can get.

Knowledge Ignorance Thought Hell You

You can only maintain your interest if you're travelling more in ignorance than knowledge.

Knowledge Ignorance You More Your

We are born knowing nothing and with much striving we learn but a little; yet all the while we are bound by laws that hearken to no plea of ignorance, and measure out their rewards and punishments with calm indifference.

Paul Elmer More

Ignorance Calm Learn Measure Born

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

Strength Truth Ignorance Purpose

I'm really not a big rereader - I'm too aware of my own ignorance.

Ignorance My Own Own Big Aware Too

Never let your persistence and passion turn into stubbornness and ignorance.

Anthony J. D'Angelo

Passion Persistence Ignorance Never

For all of his bravado, obnoxiousness, hatred, and vitriol, the scariest thing about Trump, to me, is his unique combination of ignorance about the world, convolved with ignorance about himself.

Lawrence M. Krauss

Ignorance Me World Unique Hatred

The hope that poverty and ignorance may gradually be extinguished, derives indeed much support from the steady progress of the working classes during the nineteenth century.

Alfred Marshall

Hope Ignorance Progress Support May

Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges.

Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould

Work Learning Ignorance Done Real

At least for me, it takes more knowledge to write fiction than nonfiction. At least about someplace that I begin with a lot of ignorance about.

William T. Vollmann

Knowledge Ignorance Me More Write

Ignorance of the facts of life gave me my beloved son, Dickon, but at what cost to both him and me, I cannot hazard a guess.

Life Son Ignorance Me Facts Him

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