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Ignorance Quotes

Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.

Learning Great Ignorance Training

France is no longer herself when she is folded in on herself, tormented by ignorance and intolerance. The country would plunge into decline if it refused to be itself, if it was afraid of the future, afraid of the world.

Francois Hollande

Future Ignorance World Country She

How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.

Ignorance Reputation Rocks Difficult

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.

Ignorance Lion Thoughts Help You

There's no commodity we can take with us. There is only our lives, whether we live them wisely or whether we live them in ignorance. And this is everything.

Sharon Salzberg

Live Ignorance Everything Take Us

The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.

Home Ignorance America Enemies Only

Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.

Ignorance Reason Whatever Dictated

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

Benjamin Franklin

Wisdom Knowledge Ignorance Temple

Understanding how the media actually works is critical. Because editors depend on ignorance and media illiteracy to ply their trade. The fact that many readers expect fact checking, editorial oversight, and ethics actually makes it easier for the media to be lazy.

Ignorance Ethics Understanding Media

Art hath an enemy called Ignorance.

Art Ignorance Enemy Hath

I really think that living is the process of going from complete certainty to complete ignorance.

Richard Dreyfuss

Ignorance Think Process Living Going

The question of whether or not there is a God or truth or reality or whatever you like to call it, can never be answered by books, by priests, philosopher's or saviours. Nobody and nothing can answer the question but you yourself, and that is why you must know yourself - Immaturity lies only in total ignorance of self.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

God Truth Ignorance Yourself Reality

Ignorance is not bliss, but in my case, that was.

Victoria Principal

Ignorance Bliss Case

All around me insisted that my doubts proved only my own ignorance and sinfulness; that they knew by experience they would soon give place to true knowledge, and an advance in religion; and I felt something like indecision.

Knowledge Ignorance Experience Me

To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.

Learning Ignorance Proud Greatest

There is no stopping the world's tendency to throw off imposed restraints, the religious authority that is based on the ignorance of the many, the political authority that is based on the knowledge of the few.

Van Wyck Brooks

Knowledge Ignorance World Political

I think humility - which I think is a very good value to adopt - is basically an extension of understanding your own ignorance.

Good Ignorance Humility Value Think

There's something on Wall Street called PIG - panic, ignorance, and greed. Those are the big sins. I'm not greedy, I knew I was ignorant, and I didn't panic.

Melvin Van Peebles

Ignorance Greed Pig Wall Street Big

The little I know I owe to my ignorance.

Ignorance Know Little Owe

Only thanks to blissful ignorance, and the inspiration of my grandparents' story, did I actually believe tackling a novel would be an easy task. I've since learned otherwise.

Kristina McMorris

Ignorance Believe Story Easy Task

We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.

Alone Ignorance Survive Think Us

My ignorance is widespread.

Ignorance Widespread

No one knows 'men' as such, any more than anyone knows 'women,' and if they do generalise they're probably trying to hide their own ignorance. You might know one 'man,' yes, or even lots of individual 'men'.

Women Ignorance Men Man You Hide

There is no slavery but ignorance.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Ignorance Slavery

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