Ignorance Quotes

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Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. — Lewis Carroll
Arrogance, ignorance, and incompetence. Not a pretty cocktail of personality traits in the best of situations. No sirree. Not a pretty cocktail in an office-mate… — Graydon Carter
It's no surprise that the Bush administration's bullying swagger and blithe ignorance have caused much of the Muslim world to hold the U.S. in rock-bottom… — Graydon Carter
Gross ignorance is 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance. — Bennett Cerf
Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance. — William Ellery Channing
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… — William Ellery Channing
Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound. — James Allen
A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones. — Lord Chesterfield
Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough. — Lord Chesterfield
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery. — Winston Churchill
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. — Winston Churchill
I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
The reason there's so much ignorance is that those who have it are so eager to share it. — Frank A. Clark
It turns out that advancing equal opportunity and economic empowerment is both morally right and good economics, because discrimination, poverty and ignorance restrict growth, while… — William J. Clinton
You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it. — Paulo Coelho
My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated… — Maya Angelou
Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives. — Maya Angelou
We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races,… — Maya Angelou
It's good to remember that in crises, natural crises, human beings forget for awhile their ignorances, their biases, their prejudices. For a little while, neighbors… — Maya Angelou
All religions are ancient monuments to superstition, ignorance and ferocity. — Baron d'Holbach
Religious leaders will always avail themselves of public ignorance for their own purpose. — Thomas Jefferson
The real argument against aristocracy is that it always means the rule of the ignorant. For the most dangerous of all forms of ignorance is… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Perhaps it is better in this present world of ours that a revolutionary idea or invention instead of being helped and patted be hampered and… — Nikola Tesla

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