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Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature.
Human ordeals thrive on ignorance. To understand a problem with clarity is already half way towards solving it.
If ignorance goes to forty dollars a barrel, I want drilling rights to George Bush's head.
Do not hide your ignorance, because somebody might help you! Hiding always prolongs the problems.
If you are bombarded by so many thoughts in solitude, you are in ignorance. If you are calm even amidst a crowd then you are in knowledge.
Ignorance ... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.
If you have attained something, this is the surest proof that you have gone astray. Therefore, not to have is to have, silence is thunder, ignorance is enlightenment.
Death people who are still alive at this hour, must resurrect and ascend to the intellectual heaven where there is no ignorance.
Ignorance of the law is no good excuse, where every man is bound to take notice of the laws to which he is subject.
We have found it of paramount importance that in order to progress, we must recognize our ignorance and leave room for doubt.
So long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Miserables cannot fail to be of use.
Perhaps growing up meant we put our knives away and feigned ignorance of the damage.
In behaving respectfully toward all that the land contains, it is possible to imagine a stifling ignorance falling away from us.
When moral superiority combines with billowing ignorance, they fill up a hot-air balloon that's awfully hard not to poke.
Educationists are entertaining. We can always find a good laugh in their prose, with its special, ludicrous combination of ignorance and pretentiousness.
We have nothing to lose by trusting the infinite power of the Self, except the bondage of our own ignorance.
In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
It was a childish ignorance, But now 'tis little joy To know I'm further off from heaven Than when I was a boy.
He is annoyed with their lack of interest, their blithe ignorance of the arbitrary genetic lottery that has granted them their privileged lives.
Right conduct can never, except by some rare accident, be promoted by ignorance or hindered by knowledge.
The less a tourist knows, the fewer mistakes he need make, for he will not expect himself to explain ignorance.
If in the darkness of ignorance, you don’t recognize a person’s true nature, look to see whom he has chosen for his leader.
There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund of conversation.
Death falls heavily on that man who, known too well to others, dies in ignorance of himself.
The dumbing down of America is evident in the slow decay of substantive content, a kind of celebration of ignorance.
Ignorance is venomous and it murders the soul, spreading like a virus, running rampant, out of control.
How marvelous books are, crossing worlds and centuries, defeating ignorance and, finally, cruel time itself.
The history of Western science confirms the aphorism that the great menace to progress is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge.
Ignorance is bliss. Oedipus ruined a great sex life by asking too many questions.
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
Pride is not the heritage of man; humility should dwell with frailty, and atone for ignorance, error, and imperfection.
It is only out of ignorance that people are cruel, because they really don't think it will come back.
Ignorance is never out of style. It was in fashion yesterday, it is the rage today and it will set the pace tomorrow.
All suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their happiness or satisfaction.
Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate, roll darkly down the torrent of his fate.
The spiritual quest is a journey without distance. You travel from where you are right now To where you have always been. From ignorance to recognition.
Confidence, as opposed, to modesty and distinguished from decent assurance, proceeds from self-opinion, and is occasioned by ignorance and flattery.
Three key humanist virtues are courage, cognition, and caring - not dependence, ignorance, or insensitivity to the needs of others.
What makes me angry is closed mindedness, prejudice against those who are different from you, reveling in one's own ignorance.
Can anything be more absurd than keeping women in a state of ignorance, and yet so vehemently to insist on their resisting temptation?
preach, my dear Sir, a crusade against ignorance; establish & improve the law for educating the common people.
Sometimes presenting the most ignorant point of view can be the best way to satirize the issue and highlight that ignorance.
There is no such thing as chance or accident; the words merely signify our ignorance of some real and immediate cause.
If the history of science shows us anything, it is that we get nowhere by labeling our ignorance “God”.
Charity puts and end to poverty; righteous conduct to misery; discretion to ignorance; and scrutiny to fear.
Perhaps, thought Talon, there was a path in between. A way to shed their ignorance without losing their souls.
Book - Learning : The dunce's derisive term for all knowledge that transcends his own impertinent ignorance.
After long experience of politics, I have never found that there is any inhibition caused by ignorance as regards criticism.
The evil that is in the world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding.
I know I'm not the best tennis player there's ever been, but calling me a loser is just ignorance.
A man is not moral because he is obedient through fear or ignorance. Morality lives in the realm of perceived obligation.
Ignorance in this degree, concentrated in both the head and belly of a lumbering superpower, is now a problem for the entire world.
It is never just disagreement but always intellectual dishonesty that is the apologist's worst enemy. And its apprentice is ignorance.
Science is not a vast encyclopedia, it is a thin flame of reason burning across ample reservoirs of ignorance.
Together, we will reclaim America's schools, before ignorance and apathy claim more young lives.
What is necessary to keep providing good care to nature has completely fallen into ignorance during the materialism era.
If you don't let a teacher know what level you are -- by asking a question, or revealing your ignorance -- you will not learn or grow
Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.
Doubt is the middle position between knowledge and ignorance. It encompasses cynicism but also genuine questioning.
A judicious man looks at Statistics, not to "get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted 'on him".
