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Christian Nestell Bovee
I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance.
Bell Hooks
People's ignorance really pisses me off. Stupidity is when you can't help it-ignorance is when you choose not to understand something.
Sarah McLachlan
It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.
Paul Gauguin
Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other.
James F. Cooper
Information can bring you choices and choices bring power - educate yourself about your options and choices. Never remain in the dark of ignorance.
Joy Page
Never let your persistence and passion turn into stubbornness and ignorance.
Anthony J. D'Angelo
Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance.
Graham Greene
Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.
Jeremy Bentham
When an individual, a sect, a clique or a nation hates and despises another individual, sect, clique or nation, he or they simply do not know the objects of their hatred. Ignorance is at the bottom of it.
Paul Harris
Ignorance is a menace to peace.
Paul Harris
To attempt to superimpose its views through the exercise of force, is seldom the part of intelligence; it is frequently the part of ignorance.
Paul Harris
In the clashes between ignorance and intelligence, ignorance is generally the aggressor.
Paul Harris
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
I want to fight poverty and ignorance and give opportunity to those people who are locked out.
Russell Simmons
The voice of the intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is biased by hate and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance.
Karl A. Menninger
Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.
Thucydides
Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.
Jean de La Fontaine
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
Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.
William Ellery Channing
Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance.
William Gaddis
Art hath an enemy called Ignorance.
Ben Jonson
Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible.
Isaiah Berlin
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
With attention deficit democracy, I am trying to wake up people to how the combination of mass ignorance, fear mongering by the government, and lying politicians is putting our entire system of government to a death spiral.
James Bovard
I could never accept findings based almost exclusively on mathematics. It ain't ignorance that causes all the trouble in this world. It's the things people know that ain't so.
Edwin Armstrong
It ain't ignorance that causes all the trouble in this world. It's the things people know that ain't so.
Edwin Armstrong
Where ignorance is bliss it's foolish to borrow your neighbor's newspaper.
Kin Hubbard
Ignorance is not innocence but sin.
Robert Browning Hamilton
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
I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
Harold MacMillan
The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
Bela Lugosi
Absurdity is what I like most in life, and there's humor in struggling in ignorance. If you saw a man repeatedly running into a wall until he was a bloody pulp, after a while it would make you laugh because it becomes absurd.
David Lynch
Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance.
Arnold H. Glasow
The principles of justice are chosen behind a veil of ignorance.
John Rawls
True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.
Abigail Van Buren
We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.
John Archibald Wheeler
Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.
Cyril Connolly
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
I am astonished each time I come to the U.S. by the ignorance of a high percentage of the population, which knows almost nothing about Latin America or about the world. It's quite blind and deaf to anything that may happen outside the frontiers of the U.S.
Eduardo Galeano
The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.
Gerard De Nerval
Gross ignorance is 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance.
Bennett Cerf
It is not enough to be well-intentioned; one must strive to put those intentions into action in a capable way. One must consider the effect his actions will have on others. Looked at like this, to persist in ignorance is itself dishonorable.
Andrew Cohen
My family and I held no hatred for those people because we realized they were victims of their own ignorance.
Ryan White
I believe that ignorance is the root of all evil. And that no one knows the truth.
Molly Ivins
Mystery is but another name for ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain!
Tryon Edwards
Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.
Guy Debord
My top most priority is to deal with India's massive social and economic problems, so that chronic poverty, ignorance and disease can be conquered in a reasonably short period of time.
Manmohan Singh
To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.
Jeremy Taylor
It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it; and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it not.
Jeremy Taylor
Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing.
Irene Peter
We receive the truths of science by compulsion. Nothing but ignorance is able to resist them.
Chauncey Wright
There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is youthful ignorance of the fact that the middle aged are still alive.
Jessamyn West
Most criticism of advertising is written in ignorance of what actually happens inside these agencies.
Michael Schudson
Consciousness of myself, combined with complete ignorance of everything that does not fall within my sphere of thinking, is the most telling proof of my substantiality outside God, of my original existence.
Moses Mendelssohn
The reason there's so much ignorance is that those who have it are so eager to share it.
Frank Howard Clark
A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.
Bob Edwards
The little I know I owe to my ignorance.
Sacha Guitry
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
The average man has a carefully cultivated ignorance about household matters - from what to do with the crumbs to the grocer's telephone number - a sort of cheerful inefficiency which protects him.
Crystal Eastman
Ignorance is the primary source of all misery and vice.
Victor Cousin
True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.
Akhenaton
Backward is just not a natural direction for Americans to look - historical ignorance remains a national characteristic.
Larry McMurtry
I'm against ignorance.
Herman Kahn
Ah! destructive Ignorance, what shall be done to chase thee out of the World!
Cotton Mather
All comparisons between America's current place in the world and anything legitimately called an empire in the past reveal ignorance and confusion about any reasonable meaning of the concept empire, especially the comparison with the Roman Empire.
Donald Kagan
We can choose between the future and the past, between reason and ignorance, between true compassion and mere ideology.
Ron Reagan
Now, ignorance is one thing, ignorance can be cured. But many of the Republican leaders opposing this research know better.
Ron Reagan
There are few earthly things more beautiful than a university a place where those who hate ignorance may strive to know, where those who perceive truth may strive to make others see.
John Masefield
I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance.
Ruben Blades
It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous.
Charles Dudley Warner
Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.
Mary Astell
The huge problem in our society is the enormous ignorance of the ideas that underlie modern art.
Thom Mayne
The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are all blindly adopted, the second willfully preferred.
George Bancroft
To act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the tides. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other.
Helena Petrova Blavatsky
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
In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance.
Theodore Dreiser
Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens.
William Beveridge
Until as recently as November of 1966, I had complete faith in the Warren Report. Of course, my faith in the Report was grounded in ignorance, since I had never read it.
Jim Garrison
Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.
Lytton Strachey
An ignorance of Marx is as frequent among Marxists as an ignorance of Christ is among Catholics.
Jose Bergamin
Fear is the only true enemy, born of ignorance and the parent of anger and hate.
Edward Albert
It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge.
Arnold H. Glasgow
Ignorance is kind of bliss.
Jackie DeShannon
Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.
Addison Mizner
The most violent element in society is ignorance.
Emma Goldman
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
If not bliss, ignorance can at least be fun.
Carter Burwell
Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
All around me insisted that my doubts proved only my own ignorance and sinfulness; that they knew by experience they would soon give place to true knowledge, and an advance in religion; and I felt something like indecision.
Maria Monk
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.
Bruce Sterling
So far as I know, there were no pains taken to preserve secrecy on this subject; that is, I saw no attempt made to keep any of the inmates of the Convent in ignorance of the murder of children.
Maria Monk
If we bring not the good courage of minds covetous of truth, and truth only, prepared to hear all things, and decide upon all things, according to evidence, we should do more wisely to sit down contented in ignorance, than to bestir ourselves only to reap disappointment.
Frances Wright
In the scattered settlements of this Diocese, schools and Churches are of necessity for many years few in number, and multitudes of both sexes are growing up in great ignorance.
John Strachan
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
Ignorance is the mother of admiration.
George Chapman
Ignorance breeds fear.
Mike Wilson
