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Man's condition is horrible because, no matter what form his happiness may take, it arises from some species of ignorance.
Ignorance is a self-generating state of mind; one of its characteristics is that it doesn't recognize itself as ignorance.
So long as the mother, Ignorance, lives, it is not safe for Science the offspring, to divulge the hidden causes of things.
Nothing will divide this nation more than ignorance, and nothing can bring us together better than an educated population.
Our senses through ignorance of Reality, falsely tell us that what appears to be, is. FEAR = False Evidence Appearing Real
the bliss that comes from ignorance should seldom be encouraged for it is likely to do one out of a more satisfying bliss.
Of course the 19th century remained in blissful ignorance of post-modern irony, and the dime novels were made without end.
My god how gentle you are with me in spite of my great ignorance and how merciful You are with me in spite of my ugly deeds
As one lamp serves to dispel a thousand years of darkness, so one flash of wisdom destroys ten thousand years of ignorance.
I want nothing to do with any religion concerned with keeping the masses satisfied to live in hunger, filth, and ignorance.
Be the best. No negativity. No weakness. No acquiescence to fear or disaster. No errors of ignorance. No evasion to reality
I'd like to thank readers. Every time you open a book, it is a strike against ignorance. Unless you're reading Sarah Palin.
Now, ignorance is one thing, ignorance can be cured. But many of the Republican leaders opposing this research know better.
If in the darkness of ignorance, you don’t recognize a person’s true nature, look to see whom he has chosen for his leader.
Enlightenment is not about becoming divine. Instead it's about becoming more fully human. . . . It is the end of ignorance.
We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.
Sometimes presenting the most ignorant point of view can be the best way to satirize the issue and highlight that ignorance.
After long experience of politics, I have never found that there is any inhibition caused by ignorance as regards criticism.
There is nothing more frightful than an active ignorance. [Ger., Es ist nichts schrecklicher als eine thatige Unwissenheit.]
The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future.
Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon but to the fact that our ignorance and our complacency are coming to an end.
Much that we hug today as knowledge is ignorance pure and simple. It makes the mind wander and even reduces it to a vacuity.
Public Opinion... an attempt to organize the ignorance of the community, and to elevate it to the dignity of physical force.
Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.
His progress through life was hampered by his tremendous sense of his own ignorance, a disability which affects all too few.
Ignorance of the facts of life gave me my beloved son, Dickon, but at what cost to both him and me, I cannot hazard a guess.
The gifts given to us by God must not be relinquished to those who speak ill of them and who are moved by envy or ignorance.
There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide.
I remember telling a neurosurgeon, "Don't give me too much information, because at the moment my ignorance is my best asset."
You may be ignorant of all the books in the world, and I hope you are, of all the latest theories, but that is not ignorance.
We have found it of paramount importance that in order to progress, we must recognize our ignorance and leave room for doubt.
Denial of our pattern of failure seems to be a kind of practical atheism or chosen ignorance among many believers and clergy.
Economic inequality is systemic, and one of the most effective barriers is ignorance about how money works beyond the basics.
Ignorance is a virus. Once it starts spreading it can only be cured by reason. For the sake of humanity, we must be that cure.
Half of disbelief in Allah in the world is caused by people who make religion look ugly due to their bad conduct and ignorance
Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.
Anything was better than nothing. Half-full was better than empty. Ignorance was the lowest form of humiliation and suffering.
The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.
Everything is perception. A hallucination is a perception of a certain reality. It is a perception of a certain state of mind.
There's a different film being made in every mind. And of course, the star of the film is the mind, the personality, the self.
What makes me angry is closed mindedness, prejudice against those who are different from you, reveling in one's own ignorance.
The tram can run over you only if you are on the tram way! The darkness can run over you only if you are on the ignorance way!
The pursuit of knowledge is but a course between two ignorances, as human life is itself only a wayfaring from grave to grave.
Government, as it was forced upon mankind by their vices, so has it commonly been the creature of their ignorance and mistake.
Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
It's appropriate that the word 'ignorance' is an extension of the word 'ignore.' We ignore so much and so we become ignore-ant.
Three were the fates. Poverty that chains; gray drudgery that grinds the hope away, and gaping ignorance that starves the soul.
Knowledge is a collective enterprise. Without it understanding is impossible. Ignorance is too often a murderous vulnerability.
My whole career can be summed up with 'Ignorance is bliss.' When you do not know better, you do not really worry about failing.
It is not so bad being ignorant if you are totally ignorant; the hard thing is knowing in some detail the reality of ignorance.