Ignorance Quotes - Page 100

Humble, honest, ignorance is one of the finest flowers of the human spirit

Political conflict rests to a very large extent on a universal ignorance of consequences, as the people who are benefited by any particular act or policy are rarely those who struggled for it, and the people who are injured are rarely those who opposed it.

Luckily for me, most of my work is through a brand or client who approaches my agent. Before I began modeling, I never realized how many barriers there were for people with disabilities within the industry. I didn't realize how much prejudice and ignorance existed. That made me even more determined to break down the barriers and to wake up the industry to the fact that beauty shows up in all different shapes, sizes and abilities.

I am philosophical Christ; crucified on the cross of ignorance for the sake of divine vanity.

People are generally opposed to things they know nothing about.

Listen, my father had written. Listen to hear if they are telling the truth or only part of the truth, for that is the lesson of history: that the victors tell the tale of their triumph in a manner to grant accolades to themselves and heap blame upon their rivals. Ask yourself if part of the story is being withheld by design or ignorance.

There are a few things that tend to infuriate me. One is ignorance, because I have become accustomed to speaking to very intelligent people like Gore Vidal and Al Franken on a regular basis, since dating Bill Maher.

If we were given one word of information in our entire history, how we'd treasure it! how we'd pore over ever syllable, divining it's meaning, arguing its importance; how we'd examine it and wring every lesson we could from it. Yet today we have trillions of words, tidal waves of information and the smallest detail of every action our government and businesses take is easily available to us at the touch of a button. And yet...we ignore it, and learn nothing from it. One day we'll die of voluntary ignorance

I plead total ignorance to Led Zeppelin. I am totally in the dark about them.

Ignorance is not something that lends itself to a meaningful discussion.

It doesn't matter if your ignorant so long as you can find people to know stuff for you.

Going to university is only one avenue to gain knowledge. There are others. A degree isn't insurance against ignorance.

When actresses jump on the anti-Iraq bandwagon, they often combine down-home momism with an ignorance of Islamist intent which is truly awesome.

I'm a believer in 'Ignorance is bliss.'

human honesty has its varieties; so does human ignorance.

Like language, a code of manners can be used with more or less skill, for laudable or for evil purposes, to express a great variety of ideas and emotions. In itself, it carries no moral value, but ignorance in use of this tool is not a sign of virtue.

To sacrifice the principles of manners, which require compassion and respect, and bat people over the head with their ignorance of etiquette rules they cannot be expected to know is both bad manners and poor etiquette. That social climbers and twits have misused etiquette throughout history should not be used as an argument for doing away with it.

I was a bad practicing physician because I was never sure of the diagnosis or of the treatment.

Ignorance is the wet-nurse of prejudice.

Man isn't a fool for his ignorance, but rather for believing things that are wrong.

She feared the unknown as we all do, and her ignorance made the unknown infinitely vast.

Misery and ignorance are always the cause of great evils. Misery is easily excited to anger, and ignorance soon yields to perfidious counsels.

An ignorance of Marx is as frequent among Marxists as an ignorance of Christ is among Catholics.

You don't have to be Dave Halberstam to see that the American role in both conflicts [the Iraq war and the Vietnam conflict] is characterized by arrogance, ignorance and self-delusion at the highest levels of government.

Elective ignorance was a great survival skill, perhaps the greatest.