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It ain't ignorance that causes all the trouble in this world. It's the things people know that ain't so.
We have to stand together against terror and the reasons for terrorism, which are poverty and ignorance.
It would be difficult to dispel ignorance unless there is freedom to pursue the truth unfettered by fear.
Right conduct can never, except by some rare accident, be promoted by ignorance or hindered by knowledge.
From the Zen view all beings are in the grip of the three poisons, greed, anger and delusion (ignorance).
Depraved conscience turns out to be as different from genuine ignorance as it is from honest recognition.
We must cultivate, all of us, a certain ignorance, a certain blindness, or society will not be tolerable.
It would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility "faith"! (Institutio III.2.3)
It is forgivable to say nothing out of ignorance; it's inexcusable to remain silent once awareness dawns.
The greatest of all the accomplishments of 20th century science has been the discovery of human ignorance
What wise God would consign a man to Hell for ignorance, instead of teaching him better in the afterlife?
Few things are more irritating than when someone who is wrong is also very effective in making his point.
What a refreshing mind you have, young man. There really is nothing quite like total ignorance, is there?
Men remain in ignorance as long as they hate, and they hate unjustly as long as they remain in ignorance.
Africa should not again face isolation or stigmatisation based on ignorance and unrepresentative imagery.
I never thought that I couldn't do what I set out to do. It wasn't from arrogance; it was from ignorance.
Here in your mind you have complete privacy. Here there's no difference between what is and what could be.
I was going to talk about Nicholas Parsons' ignorance, but 18 seconds would be a wholly insufficient time.
And some men are as ignorant of what they do when awake as they are forgetful of what they do when asleep.
The veil is slowly rising, but as regards innumerable questions we must be content to remain in ignorance.
Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of mankind.
[W]e must come into a transformed knowing, an unknowing which comes not from ignorance but from knowledge.
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.
You know when you're young, you have this unbelievable stupidity and arrogance and ignorance all mixed in?
We should all learn from our experiences, but I don't think hatred is the best way to deal with ignorance.
We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger.
It may not be in the constitution, but every American has a god-given right to provinciality and ignorance.
Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.
How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time?
How can he remember well his ignorance - which his growth requires - who has so often to use his knowledge?
I had learned to harness ignorance with presumption. I was ready to become an unacknowledged watercolorist.
Faith consists, not in ignorance, but in knowledge, and that, not only of God, but also of the divine will.
Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.
I'm like everyone else—I see the world in terms of what I would like to see happen, not what actually does.
All the wars, all the hatred, all the ignorance in the world come out of being so invested in our opinions.
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.
Acquire knowledge before you become leaders and pride prevents you from learning and you live in ignorance.
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.
Book - Learning : The dunce's derisive term for all knowledge that transcends his own impertinent ignorance.
The great mass of people judge well of things, for they are in natural ignorance, which is man's true state.
Charity puts and end to poverty; righteous conduct to misery; discretion to ignorance; and scrutiny to fear.
I suspect people would be in for a real shock if they knew the depths of his [Obama's] historical ignorance.
As the sphere of understanding grows ever larger, necessarily the surface area of ignorance gets ever bigger
There is no case where ignorance should be preferred to knowledge - especially if the knowledge is terrible.
How marvelous books are, crossing worlds and centuries, defeating ignorance and, finally, cruel time itself.
Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it pure ignorance?
It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
We live at a time when emotions and feelings count more than truth, and there is a vast ignorance of science
We have nothing to lose by trusting the infinite power of the Self, except the bondage of our own ignorance.