Best Our Ignorance Quotes
113 Our Ignorance quotes by 92 unique authors
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The lower animals are our brethren. I include among them the lion and the tiger. We do not know how to live with these carnivorous…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Patanjali, declares that the true secret of evolution is the manifestation of the perfection which is already in every being; that this perfection has been…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Join me in standing up against any actual knowledge about guns. Let the CDC know they can take away our ignorance when the pry it…
— Stephen Colbert
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What’s looming in the shadows of our ignorance and denial is a critique of civilization itself.
— Lierre Keith
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If the history of science shows us anything, it is that we get nowhere by labeling our ignorance “God”.
— Jerry A. Coyne
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Knowledge is essential to conquest; only according to our ignorance are we helpless. Thought creates character. Character can dominate conditions. Will creates circumstances and environment.
— Annie Besant
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The darkest thing about Africa has always been our ignorance of it.
— Unknown Author
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Chaos is but unperceived order; it is a word indicating the limitations of the human mind and the paucity of observational facts. The words ‘chaos,’…
— Harlow Shapley
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Fortunately science, like that nature to which it belongs, is neither limited by time nor by space. It belongs to the world, and is of…
— Humphry Davy
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Losing our ignorance can be dangerous because our ignorance is a shield.
— Dan Simmons
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All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance.
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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George Kimble said, 'The only thing dark about Africa is our ignorance of it.' So let's start shedding light on this amazing eclectic continent that…
— Euvin Naidoo
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Our ignorance is not so vast as our failure to use what we know.
— M. King Hubbert
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In a spiral galaxy, the ratio of dark-to-light matter is about a factor of ten. That's probably a good number for the ratio of our…
— Vera Rubin
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To realize that our knowledge is ignorance, This is a noble insight. To regard our ignorance as knowledge, This is mental sickness. Only when we…
— Laozi
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O sancta simplicitas! What strange simplification and falsification mankind lives on! One can never cease to marvel once one has acquired eyes for this marvel!…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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I love to thik of my little children whom God has called to himself as away at school-at the best school in the universe, under…
— Jacques-Benigne Bossuet
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Our ignorance of the cosmos is too vast to commit to atheism, and yet we know too much to commit to a particular religion. A…
— David Eagleman
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What a life in science really teaches you is the vastness of our ignorance.
— David Eagleman
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. The ordinary person today lives better than a king did a century ago but…
— Gustave Flaubert
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At my back I hear the word-"homosexual"-and it seems to split my world in two.... It is ignorance, our ignorance of one another, that creates…
— John Cheever
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Much of our ignorance is of ourselves. Our eyes are full of dust. Prejudice blinds us.
— Abraham Coles
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Dignity is a mask we wear to hide our ignorance.
— Elbert Hubbard
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Miracles arise from our ignorance of nature, not from nature itself.
— Michel de Montaigne
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POSITIVISM- A philosophy that denies our knowledge of the Real and affirms our ignorance of the Apparent. Its longest exponent is Comte, its broadest Mill…
— Ambrose Bierce
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