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Scientific literacy is an intellectual vaccine against the claims of charlatans who would exploit ignorance.
Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature.
The way to eliminate ignorance is through steady, focused discrimination between the observer and the world.
Fear tends to come from ignorance. Once I knew what the problem was, it was just a problem, nothing to fear.
Pain, sorrow, ignorance are all illusory; they cannot live. Bliss, joy, knowledge are true; they cannot die.
What blinds us, or what makes historical progress very difficult, is our lack of awareness of our ignorance.
Perfect ignorance is quiet, perfect knowledge is quiet; not so the transition from the former to the latter.
It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
'Push back' is the word; that's what we gotta do against ignorance. I see so much of it, and it's dangerous.
Racism is a sign of ignorance, in my opinion. It's people who haven't been anywhere, haven't seen the world.
It has been more profitable for us to bind together in the wrong direction than to be alone in the right one.
Simple ignorance has in its time been complimented by the names of most of the vices, and of all the virtues.
As far as ignorance is concerned, not just Buddhism, every religion recognizes it as the source of suffering.
The jury system puts a ban upon intelligence and honesty and a premium upon ignorance, stupidity and perjury.
The root cause of all the problems we have in the world today is ignorance of course. But most, polarization.
Remove the Ego and Avidya (Ignorance) is gone. Look for it, the ego vanishes and the real Self alone remains.
There's a lot of ignorance in our business... Everybody's an authority. To have your own vision is rewarding.
Open the gates of wisdom, tear the veil of ignorance, enter the abode of Divine Bliss. Rest in peace forever.
Ignorance fears diversity as an invading enemy, while wisdom welcomes diversity in an alliance of friendship.
Cynics and critics wake us up. Kindness often covers up the truth and allows us to sleep on in our ignorance.
My family and I held no hatred for those people because we realized they were victims of their own ignorance.
Three minutes thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.
Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase.
Where did I get the nerve to think I could handle American teenagers? Ignorance. That's where I got the nerve.
The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.
The greatest and saddest defect is not credulity, but an habitual forgetfulness that our science is ignorance.
Gentlemen, if my love for you equaled my ignorance of everything concerning you, it would indeed be unbounded.
Don't punish yourselves for people's ignorant reactions to what we all are. Don't let ignorance win. Let love.
Perhaps, thought Talon, there was a path in between. A way to shed their ignorance without losing their souls.
By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
I won't put my ignorance on an altar and call it God. It feels like idolatry, like the worst kind of idolatry.
Science is not a vast encyclopedia, it is a thin flame of reason burning across ample reservoirs of ignorance.
preach, my dear Sir, a crusade against ignorance; establish & improve the law for educating the common people.
Knowledge is not a guarantee of good political behavior, but ignorance is a virtual guarantee of bad behavior.
Oh, the ignorance of us upon whom Providence did not sufficiently smile to permit us to be born in New England.
Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.
Human ordeals thrive on ignorance. To understand a problem with clarity is already half way towards solving it.
Ignorance lies at the bottom of all human knowledge, and the deeper we penetrate, the nearer we arrive unto it.
The less a tourist knows, the fewer mistakes he need make, for he will not expect himself to explain ignorance.
A person does not show his actions to the creation except due to his ignorance of the Greatness of the Creator.
It was a childish ignorance, But now 'tis little joy To know I'm further off from heaven Than when I was a boy.
The acquisition of knowledge always involves the revelation of ignorance-almost is the revelation of ignorance.
I don't think that, you know, adherence to ignorance is really something that encourages voters to support you.
Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.
As long as superstition and ignorance prevail, humanity will fall short of eradicating war, poverty, and hunger.
I am not sure of anything, I know nothing . . . can you imagine that I don't even know the date of my own death?
His life, measured in space and time, will take up a mere few lines, which my ignorance will abbreviate further.
We venture to make the assertion that there is but one sin: IGNORANCE, and but one salvation: APPLIED KNOWLEDGE.
Religious faith is the one species of human ignorance that will not admit of even the possibility of correction.
If we are to guard against ignorance and remain free, it is the responsibility of every American to be informed.