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Ignorance is not too dangerous. If you combine it with power, then this is a toxic mix.

Quotes by Yuval Noah Harari

We've not reached the promised land. We're still wandering around, bumping into each other in the wilderness of ignorance and hate. That is why the King holiday is so important.

Quotes by Yolanda King

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

Winston Churchill

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Winston Churchill

No one can deny that Russia fired some big rockets and placed satellites into orbit. But there's been a deluge of poppycock about 'miraculous' scientific advances that enabled them to do it. Much of this analysis reflects ignorance about rocketry.

Quotes by Willy Ley

Ignorance is pitiful! If you are ignorant and stupid, you are sick - white, black, green, I don't care.

Quotes by Willie Wells

Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts; for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance.

Quotes by William Wirt

Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

William Shakespeare

The cause of violence is not ignorance. It is self-interest. Only reverance can restrain violence - reverance for human life and the environment.

Quotes by William Sloane Coffin

Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.

Quotes by William Safire

The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.

Quotes by William Osler

Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.

Quotes by William Penn

I consider nothing low but ignorance, vice, and meanness, characteristics generally found where the animal propensities predominate over the higher sentiments.

Quotes by William John Wills

Prejudice is the child of ignorance.

Quotes by William Hazlitt

Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance.

Quotes by William Gaddis

Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.

Quotes by William Ellery Channing

We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.

Quotes by William Ellery Channing

Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens.

Quotes by William Beveridge

America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.

Quotes by Will Rogers

All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance.

Quotes by Will Rogers

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

Quotes by Will Durant

Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.

Quotes by Will Durant

Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

Quotes by Will Durant

We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.

Quotes by Warren Weaver

One's ignorance is one's chief asset.

Quotes by Wallace Stevens

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

Quotes by W. Clement Stone

The ruling of men is the effort to direct the individual actions of many persons toward some end. This end theoretically should be the greatest good of all, but no human group has ever reached this ideal because of ignorance and selfishness.

Quotes by W. E. B. Du Bois

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

Quotes by Victoria Principal

Ignorance is the primary source of all misery and vice.

Quotes by Victor Cousin

In a spiral galaxy, the ratio of dark-to-light matter is about a factor of ten. That's probably a good number for the ratio of our ignorance to knowledge. We're out of kindergarten, but only in about third grade.

Quotes by Vera Rubin

Space is as infinite as we can imagine, and expanding this perspective is what adjusts humankind focus on conquering our true enemies, the formidable foes: ignorance and limitation.

Quotes by Vanna Bonta

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.

Quotes by Van Wyck Brooks

It's hard for me to stay silent when I keep hearing that peace is only attainable through war. There's nothing more scary than watching ignorance in action.

Quotes by Tom Smothers

I never thought black people would say I wasn't black enough. It didn't turn me into a bully - it just put me on the defensive. I had to watch my back. It made me stronger because I learned how to deal with ignorance.

Quotes by Tionne Watkins

What I've created comedically owes a lot to my ignorance of comedy and love of making theatre stuff.

Quotes by Tim Minchin

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

Quotes by Thomas Paine

Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.

Quotes by Thomas Gray

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

Quotes by Thomas Carlyle

In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance.

Quotes by Theodore Dreiser

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

Quotes by Terry Pratchett

Far and away, the greatest threat to the ocean, and thus to ourselves, is ignorance. But we can do something about that.

Quotes by Sylvia Earle

Ignorance per se is not nearly as dangerous as ignorance of ignorance.

Quotes by Sydney J. Harris

When someone has that combination of arrogance and ignorance - that drives me crazy.

Quotes by Susan Lucci

It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile.

Quotes by Sting

This paradox of vision - the genius of youthful ignorance - is nothing new. Had Bill Gates not been in diapers in the early days of computer software, he might have understood that there could never be a market for consumer software - but the 19-year-old Gates went ahead and cofounded Microsoft.

Quotes by Steven Levy

The truth is that our race survived ignorance; it is our scientific genius that will do us in.

Quotes by Stephen Vizinczey

It's inevitable that not everyone will like me, and that some will find me annoying. That's fine. All presenters deal with that. What's scary is the ignorance about what having a regional accent means, or indeed doesn't mean. It certainly doesn't equal ignorance.

Quotes by Steph McGovern

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

Socrates

Idealism, alas, does not protect one from ignorance, dogmatism, and foolishness.

Quotes by Sidney Hook

Poverty and ignorance, which beget terror, are not eradicated by firing artillery shells. Borders do not stop rockets, and barbed wire does not prevent terror.

Quotes by Shimon Peres

We have to stand together against terror and the reasons for terrorism, which are poverty and ignorance.

Quotes by Shimon Peres

In Buddhist teaching, ignorance is considered the fundamental cause of violence - ignorance... about the separation of self and other... about the consequences of our actions.

Quotes by Sharon Salzberg

I surely don't think ignorance is bliss. But like everything else that has survived thousands of years of human evolution, ignorance - like denial, self-delusion, and magical thinking - seems to have its uses.

Quotes by Scott Spencer

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

Quotes by Saul Bellow

A lot of my friends are gay, and certainly I have no tolerance for anyone who has any sort of ignorance or restriction on people's lives or love lives.

Quotes by Sasha Roiz

The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.

Quotes by Samuel Butler

As a reader with next to no knowledge of classical mythology, I approached 'The Aeneid' just as I would a contemporary poem or novel - and, despite my ignorance, I was rewarded with a rich and affecting portrait of, among other things, the memorably doomed love affair between Aeneas and Dido.

Quotes by Sally Rooney

No one should ever say that it was my ignorance if I did or showed forth anything however small according to God's good pleasure; but let this be your conclusion and let it so be thought, that - as is the perfect truth - it was the gift of God.

Quotes by Saint Patrick

Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.

Quotes by Saint Teresa of Avila

If I should say anything that is not in conformity with what is held by the Holy Roman Catholic Church, it will be through ignorance and not through malice. This may be taken as certain, and also that, through God's goodness, I am, and shall always be, as I always have been, subject to her.

Quotes by Saint Teresa of Avila

God's truth is helped by no man's ignorance.

Quotes by Sabine Baring-Gould

The little I know I owe to my ignorance.

Quotes by Sacha Guitry

Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.

Quotes by Saadi

My family and I held no hatred for those people because we realized they were victims of their own ignorance.

Quotes by Ryan White

Firing insults anonymously behind the keys of a message board, slandering other people's beliefs or opinions, this happens on a daily basis in my comment section or on my feed. Cyber-bullying and, further, online social ignorance, is a very real problem, typically without any real consequence.

Quotes by Ryan McCartan

Politics runs on power and money and on ignorance.

Quotes by Ry Cooder

I want to fight poverty and ignorance and give opportunity to those people who are locked out.

Quotes by Russell Simmons

I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance.

Quotes by Ruben Blades

Aversion toward the blind exists for the same reason that most prejudices exist: lack of knowledge. Ignorance is a powerful generator of fear. And fear slides easily into aggression and contempt.

Quotes by Rosemary Mahoney

We can choose between the future and the past, between reason and ignorance, between true compassion and mere ideology.

Quotes by Ron Reagan

Now, ignorance is one thing, ignorance can be cured. But many of the Republican leaders opposing this research know better.

Quotes by Ron Reagan

One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.

Quotes by Robert Staughton Lynd

Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance.

Quotes by Robert Quillen

The only barrier to human development is ignorance, and this is not insurmountable.

Quotes by Robert H. Goddard

There is no slavery but ignorance.

Quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll

The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it.

Quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll

Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows.

Quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll

Ignorance is not innocence but sin.

Quotes by Robert Browning

Fullness of knowledge always means some understanding of the depths of our ignorance; and that is always conducive to humility and reverence.

Quotes by Robert Andrews Millikan

I've always been cast in authority roles; I think because I have that presence... Comedically, I can play against that pretty well. I enjoy playing that arrogant ignorance. That's one of my favorite games to play in comedy.

Quotes by Rob Riggle

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

Quotes by Richard Dreyfuss

Natural selection will not remove ignorance from future generations.

Quotes by Richard Dawkins

It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.

Quotes by Richard Dawkins

The more Scott Walker campaigns, the more he proves he is not intellectually fit for the office he's seeking. He asserts innocent ignorance on matters he should by now know something about - a way of masking his apparent bigotry.

Quotes by Richard Cohen

The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly.

Quotes by Richard Bach

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.

Plato

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

Ignorance is not bliss - it is oblivion.

Quotes by Philip Wylie

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

Quotes by Petrarch

The failure of the U.S.'s foreign adventures often seems to have its roots in the U.S.'s total ignorance of things on the ground, of the countries that they fiddle with.

Quotes by Peter Carey

Mental illnesses are so frightening and there's so much ignorance about them that I think it comforts people to think, 'Oh, well, it happens to these people because they deserve it.'

Quotes by Pete Earley

The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.

Quotes by Percy Bysshe Shelley

True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.

Quotes by Pauline Phillips

In the clashes between ignorance and intelligence, ignorance is generally the aggressor.

Quotes by Paul P. Harris

To attempt to superimpose its views through the exercise of force, is seldom the part of intelligence; it is frequently the part of ignorance.

Quotes by Paul P. Harris

When an individual, a sect, a clique or a nation hates and despises another individual, sect, clique or nation, he or they simply do not know the objects of their hatred. Ignorance is at the bottom of it.

Quotes by Paul P. Harris

Ignorance is a menace to peace.

Quotes by Paul P. Harris

It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.

Quotes by Paul Gauguin

We are born knowing nothing and with much striving we learn but a little; yet all the while we are bound by laws that hearken to no plea of ignorance, and measure out their rewards and punishments with calm indifference.

Quotes by Paul Elmer More

Is there anything science should not try to explain? Science is knowledge and knowledge is power - power to do good or evil. Sometimes ignorance is bliss.

Quotes by Paul Davies

Ignorance of the law is not a valid excuse for accused criminals, and it cannot be an excuse for members of Congress.

Quotes by Paul Broun

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