Ignorance Quotes

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We are born knowing nothing and with much striving we learn but a little; yet all the while we are bound by laws that hearken… — Paul Elmer More
Ignorance has its virtues; without it there'd be mighty little conversation. — Sophia Loren
We can drift along as though there were still a cold war, wasting hundreds of billions of dollars on weapons that will never be used,… — Jimmy Carter
Every climate scientist has his or her own views on some issues that differ from the mainstream in detail. But the broad findings of the… — Ross Garnaut
I see myself as a climate change skeptic and a skeptic looks at the evidence and bases conclusions on the evidence rather than on belief.… — Ross Garnaut
Racism is the ultimate ignorance in that it relates 'self' to the body instead of the Consciousness - Awareness - animating and experiencing through the… — David Icke
Zionism is a subject that all but a few are either too ignorant or too frightened to tackle and expose, but it must be made… — David Icke
The issue of climate change is one that we ignore at our own peril. There may still be disputes about exactly how much we're contributing… — Barack Obama
If the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) raises the hackles of the conspiracy theorists, the Bilderberg meetings must induce apocalyptic visions of omnipotent international bankers… — David Rockefeller
Populists and isolationists ignore the tangible benefits that have resulted from our active international role during the past half-century. — David Rockefeller
Einstein's relativity work is a magnificent mathematical garb which fascinates, dazzles and makes people blind to the underlying errors. The theory is like a beggar… — Nikola Tesla
A man is not moral because he is obedient through fear or ignorance. Morality lives in the realm of perceived obligation... — Robert Green Ingersoll
Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative and creation, there is one elementary… — W H Murray
Attainment is a poor measure of capacity, and ignorance no proof of defect. — Cyril Burt
Chance ... must be something more than the name we give to our ignorance. — Henri Poincare
Ignorance and credulous hope make the market for most proprietary remedies. — Samuel Hopkins Adams
It is the inefficiency and sham of ... our schools ... that save us from being dashed on the rocks of false doctrine instead of… — George Bernard Shaw
The greatest Inventions were produced in Times of Ignorance; as the Use of the Compass, Gunpowder, and Printing; and by the dullest Nation, as the… — Jonathan Swift
The scientist who yields anything to theology, however slight, is yielding to ignorance and false pretenses, and as certainly as if he granted that a… — H. L. Mencken
To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to… — Isaac Asimov
Until I became a published writer, I remained completely ignorant of books on how to write and courses on the subject ... they would have… — Isaac Asimov
The idea of protoplasm, which was really a name for our ignorance, [is] only a little less misleading than the expression "Vital force". — John B. S. Haldane
The game was that of continually inventing a possible world, or a piece of a possible world, and then of comparing it with the real… — Francois Jacob
It is nothing short of a miracle that modern methods of teaching have not yet entirely strangled that sacred spirit of curiosity and inquiry, for… — Albert Einstein
You see, one thing is, I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees… — Richard P. Feynman

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