Quotes and Sayings About Ignorance
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Indulgence in animal killing for the taste of the tongue is the grossest kind of ignorance
-- A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada -
Three minutes thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.
-- A. E. HousmanSource : "Satires". Book by Juvenal, edited by A. E. Housman, p. XI, 1931.
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The ignorance of the oppressed is strength for the oppressor.
-- A. R. Bernard -
Religion and science have a common ancestor - ignorance.
-- A.C. Grayling -
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The ground for taking ignorance to be restrictive of freedom is that it causes people to make choices which they would not have made if they had seen what the realization of their choices involved.
-- A.J. AyerSource : "The Meaning of Life and Other Essays" by A.J. Ayer, ("The Concept of Freedom"), 1990.
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Much of our ignorance is of ourselves. Our eyes are full of dust. Prejudice blinds us.
-- Abraham ColesSource : Abraham Coles (1885). “The Life and Teachings of Our Lord in Verse: Being a Complete Harmonized Exposition of the Four Gospels, with Original Notes Textual Index, Etc. Two Volumes in One, Vol. 1 -- The Evangel (second Edition), Vol. 2 -- The Light of the World”
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The purely righteous do not complain of the dark, but increase the light; they do not complain of evil, but increase justice; they do not complain of heresy, but increase faith; they do not complain of ignorance, but increase wisdom.
-- Abraham Isaac Kook -
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The sacred is in the ordinary...it is to be found in one's daily life, in one's neighbors, friends, and family, in one's own backyard...travel may be a flight from confronting the scared--this lesson can be easily lost. To be looking elsewhere for miracles is to me a sure sign of ignorance that everything is miraculous.
-- Abraham Maslow -
Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
-- Abraham Verghese -
It is strictly and philosophically true in Nature and reason that there is no such thing as chance or accident; it being evident that these words do not signify anything really existing, anything that is truly an agent or the cause of any event; but they signify merely men's ignorance of the real an immediate cause.
-- Adam ClarkeSource : Joel Henry Hildebrand (1985). “Science in the Making”, Praeger Pub Text
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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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The field is a halfway house, halfway between the detail of those intimately known places and the ignorance of a landscape view ... The essence of a field is that the cultural accommodates the natural there. The human being makes room for and makes use of those organisms that are not him. In that way the field is a poem to symbiosis, and a human contract with the natural.
-- Adam Nicolson -
Ignorance is bliss. I wish I still had some.
-- Adam PascalSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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Mostly I make lists for projects. This can be daunting. Breaking something big into its constituent parts will help you organize your thoughts, but it can also force you to confront the depth of your ignorance and the hugeness of the task. That's OK. The project may be the lion, but the list is your whip.
-- Adam Savage -
This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.
-- Adam Smith -
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Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.
-- Addison MiznerSource : Table-Talk "Law" (1689) See Proverbs 153
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Who but the Atman is capable of removing the bonds of ignorance, passion and self-interested action?
-- Adi Shankara -
I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
-- Adlai E. StevensonSource : Time magazine, November 01, 1963.
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On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson -
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Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson -
William Henry Flower the Anglican too praised evolution as a cleansing solvent, dissolving the dross which had 'encrusted' Christianity 'in the days of ignorance and superstition'.
-- Adrian Desmond -
I am not sure that Christ would have been very satisfied to foresee that He would be looked upon principally as a redeemer and nailed forever upon the cross by human ignorance. It seems to me that He above all desired to bring men a message of truth, that He wanted to heal them of their faults by making an appeal to all their energy; He shook them as much as He could, He did not seek to spare them the trouble.
-- Adrienne MonnierSource : Adrienne Monnier (1976). “The Very Rich Hours of Adrienne Monnier”, p.375, U of Nebraska Press
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The Muslim world, with its history and cultures, and indeed its different interpretations of Islam, is still little known in the West... The two worlds, Muslim and non-Muslim, Eastern and Western, must, as a matter of urgency, make a real effort to get to know one another, for I fear that what we have is not a clash of civilisations, but a clash of ignorance on both sides.
-- Aga Khan IVSource : Speech at the "Musée-Musées" Round Table Louvre Museum, www.akdn.org. October 17, 2007.
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What has been done is little-scarcely a beginning; yet it is much in comparison with the total blank of a century past. And our knowledge will, we are easily persuaded, appear in turn the merest ignorance to those who come after us. Yet it is not to be despised, since by it we reach up groping to touch the hem of the garment of the Most High.
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True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.
-- Akhenaton -
but ignorance is a kind of insanity in the human animal. People who delight in torturing defenseless children or tiny creatures are in reality insane. The terrible thing is that people who are madmen in private may wear a totally bland and innocent expression in public.
-- Akira Kurosawa -
Half of disbelief in Allah in the world is caused by people who make religion look ugly due to their bad conduct and ignorance
-- Al-Ghazali -
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These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television, but more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.
-- Alain Badiou -
Curiosity takes ignorance seriously - and is confident enough to admit when it's in the dark. It is aware of not knowing. And then it sets out to do something about it.
-- Alain de Botton