Ignorance Quotes - Page 71

Even as a youngster, though, I could not bring myself to believe that if knowledge presented danger, the solution was ignorance.

Without honoring Whores, we cannot truly understand and transcend the dynamics of violence, destruction and ignorance fostered in our cuntfearing society.

People are subject to moods, to temptations and fears, lethargy and aberration and ignorance, and the staunchest qualities shift under the stresses and strains of daily life.

Smart people understand that there is no such thing as paranoia. It is just another mask for ignorance.

Fear is just another word for ignorance.

Ignorance has been well represented under the similitude of a dungeon, where, though it is full of life, yet darkness and silence reign. But in society the bars and locks have been broken; the dungeon itself is demolished; the prisoners are out; they are in the midst of us. We have no security but to teach and renovate them.

All science is full of statements where you put your best face on your ignorance, where you say: ... we know awfully little about this, but more or less irrespective of the stuff we don't know about, we can make certain useful deductions.

I had learned to harness ignorance with presumption. I was ready to become an unacknowledged watercolorist.

Wit, like hunger, will be with great difficulty restrained from falling on vice and ignorance, where there is great plenty and variety of food.

The greatest and saddest defect is not credulity, but an habitual forgetfulness that our science is ignorance.

How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time?

A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance.

Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.

Man never knows what he wants; he aspires to penetrate mysteries and as soon as he has, wants to re-establish them. Ignorance irritates him and knowledge cloys.

A few drops of science will often disinfect an entire barrel full of ignorance and prejudice.

I have walked with people whose eyes are full of light but who see nothing in sea or sky, nothing in city streets, nothing in books. It were far better to sail forever in the night of blindness with sense, and feeling, and mind, than to be content with the mere act of seeing. The only lightless dark is the night of darkness in ignorance and insensibility.

History is a record of the incessant struggle of humanity against ignorance and oppression.

After long experience of politics, I have never found that there is any inhibition caused by ignorance as regards criticism.

I have never found criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.

I would say my haters motivate me, as cliché as that may sound, but they really do. They make me realise how much of a lack of knowledge there is about my condition and people that are different. Because of their ignorance, I want to keep pushing forward and educating people.

When an individual fear or apathy would cause us to pass by the unfortunate, then life is of no account.

The key point some Christians miss is that scientific ignorance about the beginning of life, or any of life's processes, is not evidence of a god.

To fight an enemy properly, you have to know what they are. Ignorance is defeat.

Every intervention of man in the environment around him incurs some risk as to both favorable and unfavorable consequences. Every intervention is taken in the face of partial ignorance as to what its effects will be and involves uncertainty as to the ultimate outcome.

The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.