Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.
Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.
Ignorance is the night of mind, a night without moon or star.
I found talking to the young failed suicide bomber the most unsettling and depressing - that there could be that much hatred and ignorance.
When the Alligator ran that cartoon, we had presumed it was out of ignorance.
In the scattered settlements of this Diocese, schools and Churches are of necessity for many years few in number, and multitudes of both sexes are growing up in great ignorance.
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.
Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.
The most violent element in society is ignorance.
It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous.
There are indeed, in the present corruption of mankind, many incitements to forsake truth the need of palliating our own faults and the convenience of imposing on the ignorance or credulity of others so frequently occur so many immediate evils are
Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing.
Want is one only of five giants on the road of reconstruction the others are Disease, Ignorance, Squalor, and Idleness.
Every now and then you meet a man whose ignorance is encyclopedic.
Curiosity killed the cat, but where human beings are concerned, the only thing a healthy curiosity can kill is ignorance.
I don't think you can ever regain your ignorance.
When Sufism was at loggerheads with the legalitarian Islam embodied by the doctors of the Law, known as the fuqaha', according to Henry Corbin ... Ibn Arabi made no secret of his disgust at their stupidity, ignorance, and depravity, and such an attitude was not calculated to win their favor. The tension rose, giving rise to denunciations and arrests our shaikh was in mortal peril. At this critical moment the irreducible antagonism between the spiritual Islam of Sufism and legalitarian Islam became patent. Saved by the intervention of a friendly shaikh, Ibn Arabi had but one concern, to flee far from Cairo and its hateful, bigoted canonists. Where was he to seek refuge He returned to Meca (1207).
His best companions, innocence and health And his best riches, ignorance of wealth.
Meditation brings wisdom lack of mediation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what hold you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.
The light of knowledge is fully capable of destroying the darkness of ignorance. This also help us in overcoming all the difficulties and in achieving success in all our endeavors.
In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.
But what sin is to the moralist and crime to the jurist so to the scientific man is ignorance.
One fears death because of ignorance but when the 'flame of knowledge' is enkindled in the mind then the 'fear of death' ceases to exist.
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
The five troubles or evils of the mind are passion, anger, ignorance, arrogance, pride, to anything, rejoice in freedom from attachment, whose appetites have been conquered, and who are full of light, are free (even) in this world.
Public Opinion... an attempt to organize the ignorance of the community, and to elevate it to the dignity of physical force.
The cause of violence is not ignorance. It is self-interest. Only reverance can restrain violence - reverance for human life and the environment.
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
There was going to be no more poverty, no more ignorance, no more disease. Art Deco reflected that confidence, vigor and optimism by using symbols of progress, speed and power.
How many consuming fires can there be in the words freedom, peace and democracy and how easy they can be extinguished by ignorance, stupidity and arrogance
I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
To attempt to superimpose its views through the exercise of force, is seldom the part of intelligence; it is frequently the part of ignorance.
When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something he has been put on his wits on his manhood he has gained the facts learns his ignorance is cured of the insanity of conceit has got moderation and real skill.
A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A to a student who answered I don't know and I don't care.
This is not a situation where the Taliban sits in ignorance and says, 'We've got him but we think he's innocent.' This is a time for them to say, 'Yes, we'll deliver him to you, and yes, we'll deliver his network, and we'll make it available, and we'll expose it,'
Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.
We liked it, but in ignorance.
There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.
It was easy to present figures demonstrating the contrast between lead work in the United States under conditions of neglect and ignorance, and comparable work in England and Germany, under intelligent control.
There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the later ignorance.
To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.
The only solid piece of scientific truth about which I feel totally confident is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature... It is this sudden confrontation with the depth and scope of ignorance that represents the most significant contribution of twentieth-century science to the human intellect.
We Hoosiers hold to some quaint notions. Some might say we 'cling' to them, though not out of fear or ignorance. We believe in paying our bills. We have kept our state in the black throughout the recent unpleasantness, while cutting rather than raising taxes, by practicing an old tribal ritual - we spend less money than we take in.
There's an awful lot of ignorance about what they are required to release to you at all levels of local government and to some extent state government. And this training is really necessary to help these people understand the law and what they're legally required to do.
How frail and ephemeral is the material substance of letters, which makes their very survival so hazardous. Print has a permanence of its own, though it may not be much worth preserving, but a letter Conveyed by uncertain transportation, over which the sender has no control committed to a single individual who may be careless or inappreciative left to the mercy of future generations, of families maybe anxious to suppress the past, of the accidents of removals and house-cleanings, or of mere ignorance. How often it has been by the veriest chance that they have survived at all.
You become an explainer of certain things. You begin to lower barriers of ignorance for people who were genuinely curious.
By ignorance is pride increased Those most assume who know the least.
Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance.
Ignorance is the mother of devotion.
Too much traffic with a quotation book begets a conviction of ignorance in a sensitive reader. Not only is there a mass of quotable stuff he never quotes, but an even vaster realm of which he has never heard.
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