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I believe until fairly recently our destructions of nature were more or less unwitting -- the by-products, so to speak, of our ignorance or weakness… — Wendell Berry
We need limitations and temptations to open our inner selves, dispel our ignorance, tear off disguises, throw down old idols, and destroy false standards. Only… — Helen Keller
It's clear to me now that I have been moving toward you and you toward me for a long time. Though neither of us was… — Robert James Waller
... so our customary practice of prayer was brought to mind: how through our ignorance and inexperience in the ways of love we spend so… — Julian of Norwich
Regardless of the staggering dimensions of the world about us, the density of our ignorance, the risks of catastrophes to come, and our individual weakness… — Simone de Beauvoir
We fly, but we have not 'conquered' the air. Nature presides in all her dignity, permitting us the study and the use of such of… — Beryl Markham
No one infers a god from the simple, from the known, from what is understood, but from the complex, from the unknown, and incomprehensible. Our… — Robert Green Ingersoll
What is life? Thoughts and feelings arise, with or without our will, and we employ words to express them. We are born, and our birth… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about… — Pico Iyer
Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves. — Carl Sagan
Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon but to the fact that our ignorance and our complacency are coming to an end… The exclusivism… — Joseph Campbell
Often, the greater our ignorance about something, the greater our resistance to change. — Marc Bekoff
It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance. — Charles Darwin
Our ignorance allowed us to live, as you are in the mountains, and your rope is frayed and about to break, but you don't know… — Primo Levi
Nevertheless so profound is our ignorance, and so high our presumption, that we marvel when we hear of the extinction of an organic being; and… — Charles Darwin
Probability is not a mere computation of odds on the dice or more complicated variants; it is the acceptance of the lack of certainty in… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The devil lives in our mistakes, the lord lives in our rights. Who lives in our ignorance, and who wins after all? — Maya Angelou
Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense rests on a secure foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance. — Daniel Kahneman
The more we learn about the world, and the deeper our learning, the more conscious, specific, and articulate will be our knowledge of what we… — Karl Popper
Our ignorance is God; what we know is science. — Edward Gibbon
Fullness of knowledge always and necessarily means some understanding of the depths of our ignorance, and that is always conducive to both humility and reverence. — Robert Andrews Millikan
Seventy percent of the fish we eat is black market, fished in violation of international laws. Our ignorance makes us unwilling partners in crime. Rogue… — Loretta Napoleoni
The humblest person in this world is the astrophysicist. Because we are face to face with our ignorance every single day. — Neil deGrasse Tyson
Fullness of knowledge always means some understanding of the depths of our ignorance; and that is always conducive to humility and reverence. — Robert Andrews Millikan
The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds — John Fitzgerald Kennedy

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