Our Ignorance Quotes

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Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects… — Teresa of Avila
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them. — Christian Nestell Bovee
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
God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom… — John Calvin
It was the law that if a white man was caught trying to educate a Negro slave, he was liable to prosecution entailing a fine… — John W. Campbell
Give us, O God, the vision which can see Your love in the world in spite of human failure. Give us the faith to trust… — Frank Borman
Tho' there be no such Thing as Chance in the World; our Ignorance of the real Ccause of any Event has the same Influence on… — David Hume
How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time? — Henry David Thoreau
Our ignorance is God; what we know is science. When we abandon the doctrine that some infinite being created matter and force, and enacted a… — Robert Green Ingersoll
Dissections daily convince us of our ignorance of disease, and cause us to blush at our prescriptions. What mischief have we done under the belief… — Benjamin Rush
Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it. — Heraclitus
We need only view a Dissection of that large Mass, the Brain, to have ground to bewail our Ignorance...We admire...the Fibres of every Muscle, and… — Nicolas Steno
That the fundamental aspects of heredity should have turned out to be so extraordinarily simple supports us in the hope that nature may, after all,… — Thomas Hunt Morgan
The word 'chance' then expresses only our ignorance of the causes of the phenomena that we observe to occur and to succeed one another in… — Pierre-Simon Laplace
Without any doubt, the regularity which astronomy shows us in the movements of the comets takes place in all phenomena. The trajectory of a simple… — Pierre-Simon Laplace
All our ignorance brings us closer to death. — George Eliot
The first reason for people's slavery is our ignorance, and above all, our ignorance of ourselves. — G I Gurdjieff
The worst part is not in making a mistake but in trying to justify it, instead of using it as a heaven-sent warning of our… — Santiago Ramon y Cajal
There is no such thing as chance or accident; the words merely signify our ignorance of some real and immediate cause. — Adam Clarke
Chance ... must be something more than the name we give to our ignorance. — Henri Poincare

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