Our Ignorance Quotes
113 quotes by 92 authors
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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
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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time?
— Henry David Thoreau
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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
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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
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Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.
— Heraclitus
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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
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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
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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
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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
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All our ignorance brings us closer to death.
— George Eliot
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The first reason for people's slavery is our ignorance, and above all, our ignorance of ourselves.
— G I Gurdjieff
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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
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There is no such thing as chance or accident; the words merely signify our ignorance of some real and immediate cause.
— Adam Clarke
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Chance ... must be something more than the name we give to our ignorance.
— Henri Poincare
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