Their Ignorance Quotes
46 quotes by 46 authors
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Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.
— Maya Angelou
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Any formal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious possession - their ignorance.
— Hendrik Willem van Loon
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Nothing has so exposed men of learning to contempt and ridicule as their ignorance of things which are known to all but themselves. Those who…
— Samuel Johnson
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If the children are untaught, their ignorance and vices will in future life cost us much dearer in their consequences than it would have done…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The natural scientists of the previous age knew less than we do and believed they were very close to the goal: we have taken very…
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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If the Church is 'in Christ,' she is involved in mission. Her whole existence then has a missionary character. Her conduct as well as her…
— David Bosch
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People are so skillful in their ignorance!
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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I feel closer to my country than ever. There is no longer a feeling of lonesome isolation. Instead-peace. I return without fearing prejudice that once…
— Paul Robeson
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The wise man will not pardon any crime that ought to be punished, but he will accomplish, in a nobler way, all that is sought…
— Seneca the Younger
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Genius is knowing to stay silent as others demonstrate their ignorance.
— Eric Lau
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The insolence of the vulgar is in proportion to their ignorance. They treat everything with contempt which they do not understand.
— William Hazlitt
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Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.... The subjection of individuals will increase amongst…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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Don't censor yourself to comfort their ignorance.
— Jon Stewart
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Is there wisdom in innocence? I think there is, but there is a cult now of drab men and women, for whom the world, and…
— Phillip Mann
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Many people are being persuaded that they cannot be considered intelligent or well educated if they insist on the doctrine of the verbal inspiration of…
— Alan Redpath
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When ignorant folks want to advertise their ignorance, you don't really have to do anything, you just let them talk.
— Barack Obama
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We've had numerous people diagnosed with Alzheimer's who got better; they just come out of it; they are leading normal lives today. And then, of…
— Richard M. Schulze
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Perhaps, thought Talon, there was a path in between. A way to shed their ignorance without losing their souls.
— Neal Shusterman
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So much had been surrendered! And to such little purpose! There had been mad wilful rejections, monstrous forms of self-torture and self-denial, whose origin was…
— Oscar Wilde
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By the worldly standards of public life, all scholars in their work are of course oddly virtuous. They do not make wild claims, they do…
— Jacob Bronowski
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