Ignorance Quotes - Page 8

• The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Inspiration, Humor

  Mark Twain (2008). “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: A Penguin Enriched eBook Classic”, p.1053, Penguin

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• How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Growth, Remember, Edges

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• When he is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something; ... he learns his ignorance, is cured of the insanity of conceit; has got moderation and real skill.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Real, Skills, Insanity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.55

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• Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.

  William Safire

  Thought Provoking, Empathy, Care

  William Safire (1981). “On language”

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• Now, ignorance is one thing, ignorance can be cured. But many of the Republican leaders opposing this research know better.

  Ron Reagan

  Leader, Research, Republican

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• The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.

  Aldous Huxley

  Stupidity And Ignorance, Way, Pleasure

  Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2000). “Complete Essays: 1920-1925”, Ivan R Dee

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• Losing our ignorance can be dangerous because our ignorance is a shield.

  Dan Simmons

  Shields, Losing, Dangerous

  Dan Simmons (2011). “The Fall of Hyperion”, p.332, Spectra

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• It is a common sentence that Knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of Ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down. Knowledge, through patient and frugal centuries, enlarges discovery and makes record of it; Ignorance, wanting its day's dinner, lights a fire with the record, and gives a flavour to its one roast with the burnt souls of many generations.

  George Eliot

  Discovery, Fire, Light

  George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda”, p.257, George Eliot

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• Ignorance is not lack of intelligence, nor knowledge a proof of genius.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Superficial Knowledge, Genius, Proof

  Jean de La Bruyère, Luc de Clapiers marquis de Vauvenargues (1903). “La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims”

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• There is little hope for us until we become tough-minded enough to break loose from the shackles of prejudice, half-truths, and downright ignorance. The shape of the world today does not permit us the luxury of soft mindedness. A nation or a civilization that continues to produce soft minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Spiritual, Men, Civilization

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• All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance.

  T. S. Eliot

  T.S. Eliot (2010). “The Waste Land and Other Poems”, p.58, Faber & Faber

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• I do not approve of anything which tampers with natural ignorance

  Oscar Wilde

  Natural

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• Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiation - creation - there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Commitment, Ideas, Boldness And Courage

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• It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

  Thomas Sowell

  Funny, Laughter, Thorough Knowledge

  "A Childish Letter". Column at Jewish World Review, www.jewishworldreview.com. August 17, 1998.

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• Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.

  Blaise Pascal

  Time, Knowledge, Science

  c.1654-1662 Pense es, no.23.

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• Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Love, Skills, Literature

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.2131, Delphi Classics

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• For a person who grew up in the '30s and '40s in the segregated South, with so many doors closed without explanation to me, libraries and books said, 'Here I am, read me.' Over time I have learned I am at my best around books.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspiring, Reading, Book

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Oct 30, 2010

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• Stop running to those who ignore you and start running to those who adore you.

  Joseph Simmons

  Inspirational, Running, Self Esteem

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• Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.

  Isaac Asimov

  Stars, Humanity, Ignorant

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

  Karl Popper

  Learning, Knowledge, Science

  Lecture to British Academy, 20 Jan. 1960, in Proceedings of the British Academy (1960) vol. 46, p. 69

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• Great things are accomplished by those who do not feel the impotence of man. This is a precious gift.

  Paul Valery

  Men, Precious Gifts, Accomplished

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• 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 Ward

  Teacher, Teaching, Ideas

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• Ignorance of the law excuses no man; not that all men know the law, but because 'tis an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to refute him.

  John Selden

  Men, Law, Excuse

  Table-Talk "Law" (1689) See Proverbs 153

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• If we were born to overthrow the order of ignorance and injustice of the world, it’s our job to realize it and get down to business.

  Steven Pressfield

  Jobs, Destiny, Order

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.146, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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• Simple ignorance has in its time been complimented by the names of most of the vices, and of all the virtues.

  Arthur Helps

  Simple, Names, Vices

  Sir Arthur Helps (1892). “Essays and Aphorisms”

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