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Ignorance Quotes

Ignorance Definition  
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Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.
Francis of Assisi

Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.
Saint Teresa

The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.
Lyndon B. Johnson

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

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.
Henry Miller

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
H. L. Mencken

Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.
Ambrose Bierce

Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
Ambrose Bierce

The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.
Ambrose Bierce

Is it ignorance or apathy? Hey, I don't know and I don't care.
Jimmy Buffett

Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
Hippocrates

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

Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance.
Victor Hugo

The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future.
John Maynard Keynes

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

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
Isaac Asimov

To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
Isaac Asimov

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.
Isaac Asimov

It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn't get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.
Richard P. Feynman

Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.
Robert Benchley

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