Ignorance Quotes

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Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished. — Jeremy Bentham
Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by… — Isaiah Berlin
All forms of tampering with human beings, getting at them, shaping them against their will to your own pattern, all thought control and conditioning is,… — Isaiah Berlin
Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd. — Annie Besant
Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens. — William Beveridge
Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable. — Ambrose Bierce
Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious. — Ambrose Bierce
I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance. — Ruben Blades
'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never being afraid… — John Abbott
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. — Derek Bok
An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore. — Edward de Bono
In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these… — Edward de Bono
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge. — Daniel J. Boorstin
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them. — Christian Nestell Bovee
The greatest conflicts are not between two people but between one person and himself. — Garth Brooks
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory. — Rita Mae Brown
An ignorance of means may minister to greatness, but an ignorance of aims make it impossible to be great at all. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Ignorance is not innocence but sin. — Robert Browning
There are about 15 million Muslims in the EU. They face ignorance, insult and even persecution. They cannot be wished away. To impose Enlightenment freedoms… — James Buchan
Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can… — Frederick Buechner

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