Ignorance Quote by Scott Anderson Download Open image ““British generals often gave away in stupidity what they had gained in ignorance.”” — Scott Anderson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ignorance
“But the superiority of the British is that it is a matter of complete indifference to them if they appear to be stupid.” — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
“What is stupidity? "Hostility to one's powerful and efficient commander, or to someone who can harm you or benefit you” — Imam Hussein Ibn Ali al-Shaheed Copy Share Image
“Military intelligence was as nothing to military stupidity.” — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
“There are times and occasions in war when the valor of ignorance has it's advantages” — Major General Sir Fredrick Maurice Copy Share Image
“One should never underestimate the role of stupidity in history” — Ervand Abrahamian Copy Share Image
“It's not the generals, it's the civilians who authorise and organise the worst war crimes.” — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Haw! Haw! Inconceivable stupidity is just what you're going to get! (Brigadier-General Henry Wilson, on being challenged in 1910 about the likelihood of a… — Max Hastings Copy Share Image
“It took me a long time to learn that proving people wrong is purposeless, fighting stupidity is futile, and formal recognition prevents people from… — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
“Do not try to do too much with your own hands. Better the Arabs do it tolerably than that you do it perfectly. It… — Scott Anderson Copy Share Image
“He wasn’t sure what to do. If he left the rock, it would only take a few minutes of desert air to dry his… — Scott Anderson Copy Share Image
“nothing capable of sustaining an invasion force of any size. But in all this, Aqaba, lying at the very southern end of the” — Scott Anderson Copy Share Image
“Better a thousand times the Arab untouched. The foreigners come out here always to teach, whereas they had much better learn.” — Scott Anderson Copy Share Image
Waitresses, soldiers, rickshaw drivers, old ladies selling vegetables - my father would schmooze anybody. He was Clintonesque before the word existed. And, of course,… — Scott Anderson Copy Share Image
The modern Middle East was largely created by the British. It was they who carried the Allied war effort in the region during World… — Scott Anderson Copy Share Image
“Over the course of his wartime service, Lawrence was awarded a number of medals and ribbons, but with his profound disdain for such things,… — Scott Anderson Copy Share Image
“Part of Sykes's motive was rooted in religiosity. A devout Catholic, he regarded a return of the ancient tribe of Israel to the Holy… — Scott Anderson Copy Share Image
“Initial euphoria would give way to shock, shock to horror, and then, as the killing dragged on with no end in sight, horror to… — Scott Anderson Copy Share Image
If wells are constructed right and operated right, hydraulic fracturing will not cause a problem. … Our natural gas supplies would plummet precipitously without… — Scott Anderson Copy Share Image
“mold—William Henry Yale also subscribed to Roosevelt’s notions of the ideal American man and of the dangers of “over-civilization,” code for effeminacy. The true… — Scott Anderson Copy Share Image
My folks tried to make a preacher of me and missed by a narrow margin… I would have made a good one if I… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
One of the deepest and strangest of all human moods is the mood which will suddenly strike us perhaps in a garden at night,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Ignorance is not bliss — it is oblivion. Determined ignorance is the hastiest kind of oblivion. — Philip Wylie Copy Share Image
... informed ignorance provides the natural state of mind for research scientists at the ever-shifting frontiers of knowledge. People who believe themselves ignorant of… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“If knowledge does not liberate the self from the self, then ignorance is better than such knowledge.” — Hakim Sanai Copy Share Image
You are senile old fool, and because of your impudence, I cannot fathom how you still live! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Surely, God could have caused birds to fly with their bones made of solid gold, with their veins full of quicksilver, with their flesh… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
“Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own governors, must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives. A… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“Don’t turn your face away. Once you’ve seen, you can no longer act like you don’t know. Open your eyes to the truth. It’s… — Vashti Quiroz-Vega Copy Share Image
The only victories which leave no regret are those which are gained over ignorance. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
