Ignorance Quotes

Here's what the right-wing has in, there's no shortage of the natural resources of ignorance, apathy, hate, fear. As long as those things are in the collective conscious and unconscious, the Republicans will have some votes.

Janeane Garofalo

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Freedom believes in education - the salvation of slavery is ignorance.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.

Mahatma Gandhi

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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.

Gustave Flaubert

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Without feeling abashed by my ignorance, I confess that I am absolutely unable to say. In the absence of an appearance of learning, my answer has at least one merit, that of perfect sincerity.

Jean Henri Fabre

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Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.

Karl Popper

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A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.

Herbert Spencer

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The principles of justice are chosen behind a veil of ignorance.

John Rawls

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To try to write a grand cosmical drama leads necessarily to myth. To try to let knowledge substitute ignorance in increasingly larger regions of space and time is science.

Hannes Alfven

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There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the later ignorance.

Hippocrates

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India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight, that life cannot be rightly seen in the sole light, cannot be perfectly lived in the sole power of its externalities.

Sri Aurobindo

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I have to plead basic ignorance of most new jazz artists here.

Gary Lucas

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War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

George Orwell

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We have to stand together against terror and the reasons for terrorism, which are poverty and ignorance.

Shimon Peres

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His ignorance is encyclopedic.

Abba Eban

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Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.

George Santayana

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I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance.

Ruben Blades

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I am not a great theologian. I know there is a theological concept called invincible ignorance in which a strong enough faith binds you to any facts to the contrary.

Barney Frank

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I have been judged to be a pessimist but what abyss of ignorance and low egoism is not hidden in one who thinks that Man is the god of himself and that his future can only be triumphant?

Eugenio Montale

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There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life.

Mary Wortley Montagu

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In practice, socialism didn't work. But socialism could never have worked because it is based on false premises about human psychology and society, and gross ignorance of human economy.

David Horowitz

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It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.

Mignon McLaughlin

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Out of ignorance and fear comes judgment and division.

David Furnish

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As Commander of the Faithful, it is out of the question that I fight Islam. We need to fight violence and ignorance. It is true, when one strolls out, one sees women with scarves and men with beards. This has always been the case in Morocco. Morocco is built on tolerance.

Mohammed VI of Morocco

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