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Last updated on October 6, 2024.
Educationists are entertaining. We can always find a good laugh in their prose, with its special, ludicrous combination of ignorance and pretentiousness.
The secret is not to betray your ignorance. Just maneuver, avoid the quicksands and obstacles, and the rest can be found in a dictionary.
If the history of science shows us anything, it is that we get nowhere by labeling our ignorance “God”.
The less a tourist knows, the fewer mistakes he need make, for he will not expect himself to explain ignorance.
Science is not a vast encyclopedia, it is a thin flame of reason burning across ample reservoirs of ignorance.
Diversification is a protection against ignorance. It makes very little sense for those who know what they're doing.
We have found it of paramount importance that in order to progress, we must recognize our ignorance and leave room for doubt.
Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate, roll darkly down the torrent of his fate.
In behaving respectfully toward all that the land contains, it is possible to imagine a stifling ignorance falling away from us.
How marvelous books are, crossing worlds and centuries, defeating ignorance and, finally, cruel time itself.
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
Never attribute to malice or other deliberate decision what can be explained by human frailty, imperfection, or ignorance.
Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal; and he may be properly charged with evil who refused to learn how he might prevent it.
What wise God would consign a man to Hell for ignorance, instead of teaching him better in the afterlife?
Even as a youngster, though, I could not bring myself to believe that if knowledge presented danger, the solution was ignorance.
Love transcends international boundaries. It heals the wounds of racial hatred, prejudice, bigotry and ignorance.
Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.
In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
Every mob, in its ignorance and blindness and bewilderment, is a League of Frightened Men that seeks reassurance in collective action.
A cure by regression is homeopathic, like healing the damage done by ministers and ignorance with stupidity and Jesuits.
The child should have the advantage of ignorance as well as of knowledge, and is fortunate if he gets his share of neglect and exposure.
So long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Miserables cannot fail to be of use.
I think it is important to speak your mind. Tolerance of the ignorance sends the wrong message to kids.
Talk faith. The world is better off without, Your uttered ignorance and morbid doubt.
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
I lament the want of a liberal education. I feel the mist of ignorance to surround me - Nathanael Greene
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.
It is only out of ignorance that people are cruel, because they really don't think it will come back.
Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.
I was going to talk about Nicholas Parsons' ignorance, but 18 seconds would be a wholly insufficient time.
The history of Western science confirms the aphorism that the great menace to progress is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge.
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.
Ignorance is never out of style. It was in fashion yesterday, it is the rage today and it will set the pace tomorrow.
We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.
When mankind was in its infancy, steeped in uncertainty, ignorance, and error, was it possible to foresee what system it would adopt for preservation.
My whole career can be summed up with 'Ignorance is bliss.' When you do not know better, you do not really worry about failing.
Together, we will reclaim America's schools, before ignorance and apathy claim more young lives.
There is no such thing as chance or accident; the words merely signify our ignorance of some real and immediate cause.
... there is no shame in not knowing. The problem arises when irrational thought and attendant behavior fill the vacuum left by ignorance.
When moral superiority combines with billowing ignorance, they fill up a hot-air balloon that's awfully hard not to poke.
What is reality? Is it not merely a term for the philosopher to conjure with, behind which he may craftily conceal his ignorance?
Three key humanist virtues are courage, cognition, and caring - not dependence, ignorance, or insensitivity to the needs of others.
Confidence, as opposed, to modesty and distinguished from decent assurance, proceeds from self-opinion, and is occasioned by ignorance and flattery.
Roving dogs do not indicate the civilisation or compassion of the society. They betray on the country the ignorance and lethargy of its members.
Ignorance is venomous and it murders the soul, spreading like a virus, running rampant, out of control.
My family and I held no hatred for those people because we realized they were victims of their own ignorance.
Ignorance in this degree, concentrated in both the head and belly of a lumbering superpower, is now a problem for the entire world.
Sometimes presenting the most ignorant point of view can be the best way to satirize the issue and highlight that ignorance.
It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
Why does a public discussion of economic policy so often show the abysmal ignorance of the participants?
All of us must cross the line between ignorance and insight many times before we truly understand.
A man is not moral because he is obedient through fear or ignorance. Morality lives in the realm of perceived obligation.
If ignorance and passion are the foes of popular morality, it must be confessed that moral indifference is the malady of the cultivated classes.
As long as superstition and ignorance prevail, humanity will fall short of eradicating war, poverty, and hunger.
Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.
I suspect people would be in for a real shock if they knew the depths of his [Obama's] historical ignorance.
There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund of conversation.
It is debatable which is causing us more harm - hot-headed ignorance or cold-hearted intellectualism.
If ignorance goes to forty dollars a barrel, I want drilling rights to George Bush's head.
After long experience of politics, I have never found that there is any inhibition caused by ignorance as regards criticism.
