Ignorance is the most important cause of sorrow.
Ignorance is the most important cause of sorrow.
Pettiness of mind, ignorance and presumption are the cause of stubbornness, because stubborn people only want to believe what they themselves can imagine, and they can imagine very few things.
Maybe she took it a little too far, but even the African-Americans in attendance didn't seem to mind. I don't think it was racism. Maybe it was ignorance. They just didn't know. They didn't intend to offend anybody.
In fact, they recapitulate the story of Christianity word for word, like the inevitable course of some unsightly disease criminal ignorance, brutish stupidity, self-righteous bigotry, paranoid fear of outsiders. For the cultist, psychiatrists, the media, Government agencies have become Satan incarnate. Like the fundamental Christians, they have to be right.
To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.
Whoever interrupts the conversation of others to make a display of his fund of knowledge, makes notorious his own stock of ignorance
It is hardly fair to accuse us of ignorance when it was made a crime under the former order of things to learn enough about letters to even read the Word of God.
All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance.
In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature, but in men it is a vice.
The only thing that is more dangerous than a gang member with a weapon is a parent or an educator in denial. There's no excuse for parental ignorance. Turning their head and looking the other way can lead the kids into gangs in the first place.
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.
Wonder is the effect of novelty upon 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.
Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.
Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water.
Since fear is mostly about ignorance, the best part is that its as temporary as you choose.
Knowledge destroys the darkness of ignorance.
It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.
And we saw the other case where a Copt, an Egyptian Copt, a Christian, was probably killed because he looked like he could be a Muslim. So bigots are never brain surgeons. I mean, when they do these things it's based on ignorance. So their targets always aren't the right targets in their own minds.
The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.
Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.
One column of truth cannot hold an institution of ideas from falling into ignorance. It is wiser that a person of prudence and purpose save his strength for battles that can be won.
Poverty has many roots, but the tap root is ignorance.
To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
My whole career can be summed up with 'Ignorance is bliss.' When you do not know better, you do not really worry about failing.
When motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning, not the result of ignorance or accident, its children will become the foundation of a new race.
You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft a certain free-margin, and even vagueness - ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of these things.
Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.
Arrogance is worse than ignorance, seeing as ignorance can be cured, but arrogance must be purged.
That historians should give their own country a break, I grant you but not so as to state things contrary to fact. For there are plenty of mistakes made by writers out of ignorance, and which any man finds it difficult to avoid. But if we knowingly write what is false, whether for the sake of our country or our friends or just to be pleasant, what difference is there between us and hack-writers Readers should be very attentive to and critical of historians, and they in turn should be constantly on their guard.
The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.
Ignorance is the mother of admiration.
People used to say, Ignorance is no excuse. Today, ignorance is no problem. After all, you have a right to your own opinion -- and self-esteem to boot.
What has been the fruit of religion Pride and indolence in the clergy, ignorance in the laity, in both, superstition, bigotry and persecution.
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
There is no sinfulness in the will and affections without some error in the understanding. All lusts which a natural man lives in, are lusts of ignorance.
I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance.
Ignorance is not due to lack of education. Ignorance is a state of mind that refuses the temptation of looking into the facts, that craves for the twisted, inflammatory interpretation of the facts that nourishes the prejudice in it to stay the course and expand, at the cost of totally dumping the intelligence the Creator put in it.
Information can bring you choices and choices bring power - educate yourself about your options and choices. Never remain in the dark of ignorance.
Ignorance is the parent of fear . . .
Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
Thats what it was to be alive. To move about in a cloud of ignorance to go up and down trampling on the feelings of those about you. To spend and waste time as though you had a million years. To be always at the mercy of one self-centered passion, or another. Now you know thats the happy existence you wanted to go back to. Ignorance and blindness.
Statistics: the mathematical theory of ignorance.
The sage awakes to light in the night of all creatures. That which the world calls day is the night of ignorance to the wise.
it is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.
The hope that poverty and ignorance may gradually be extinguished, derives indeed much support from the steady progress of the working classes during the nineteenth century.
Never ascribe to malice that which can be adequately explained by ignorance.
His ignorance was an Empire State Building of ignorance. You had to admire it for its size.
The spirit is smothered, as it were, by ignorance, but so soon as ignorance is destroyed, spirit shine forth, like the sun when released from clouds.
The selfishness must be discovered and understood before it can be removed. It is powerless to remove itself, neither will it pass away of itself. Darkness ceases only when light is introduced so ignorance can only be dispersed by Knowledge selfishness by Love.
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