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There is no case where ignorance should be preferred to knowledge - especially if the knowledge is terrible.
Scientific literacy is an intellectual vaccine against the claims of charlatans who would exploit ignorance.
The way to eliminate ignorance is through steady, focused discrimination between the observer and the world.
He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.
Book - Learning : The dunce's derisive term for all knowledge that transcends his own impertinent ignorance.
'Push back' is the word; that's what we gotta do against ignorance. I see so much of it, and it's dangerous.
Perfect ignorance is quiet, perfect knowledge is quiet; not so the transition from the former to the latter.
I suspect people would be in for a real shock if they knew the depths of his [Obama's] historical ignorance.
The great mass of people judge well of things, for they are in natural ignorance, which is man's true state.
What blinds us, or what makes historical progress very difficult, is our lack of awareness of our ignorance.
The root cause of all the problems we have in the world today is ignorance of course. But most, polarization.
Ignorance fears diversity as an invading enemy, while wisdom welcomes diversity in an alliance of friendship.
As far as ignorance is concerned, not just Buddhism, every religion recognizes it as the source of suffering.
Cynics and critics wake us up. Kindness often covers up the truth and allows us to sleep on in our ignorance.
Open the gates of wisdom, tear the veil of ignorance, enter the abode of Divine Bliss. Rest in peace forever.
It has been more profitable for us to bind together in the wrong direction than to be alone in the right one.
Remove the Ego and Avidya (Ignorance) is gone. Look for it, the ego vanishes and the real Self alone remains.
The jury system puts a ban upon intelligence and honesty and a premium upon ignorance, stupidity and perjury.
My family and I held no hatred for those people because we realized they were victims of their own ignorance.
Simple ignorance has in its time been complimented by the names of most of the vices, and of all the virtues.
There's a lot of ignorance in our business... Everybody's an authority. To have your own vision is rewarding.
The greatest and saddest defect is not credulity, but an habitual forgetfulness that our science is ignorance.
By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
Where did I get the nerve to think I could handle American teenagers? Ignorance. That's where I got the nerve.
preach, my dear Sir, a crusade against ignorance; establish & improve the law for educating the common people.
I won't put my ignorance on an altar and call it God. It feels like idolatry, like the worst kind of idolatry.
Gentlemen, if my love for you equaled my ignorance of everything concerning you, it would indeed be unbounded.
Three minutes thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.
Knowledge is not a guarantee of good political behavior, but ignorance is a virtual guarantee of bad behavior.
Science is not a vast encyclopedia, it is a thin flame of reason burning across ample reservoirs of ignorance.
Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase.
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.
The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.
A person does not show his actions to the creation except due to his ignorance of the Greatness of the Creator.
Oh, the ignorance of us upon whom Providence did not sufficiently smile to permit us to be born in New England.
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.
Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.
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.
The less a tourist knows, the fewer mistakes he need make, for he will not expect himself to explain ignorance.
It was a childish ignorance, But now 'tis little joy To know I'm further off from heaven Than when I was a boy.
An ignorance of means may minister to greatness, but an ignorance of aims make it impossible to be great at all.
I am not sure of anything, I know nothing . . . can you imagine that I don't even know the date of my own death?
I envy animals for two things - their ignorance of evil to come, and their ignorance of what is said about them.
Religious faith is the one species of human ignorance that will not admit of even the possibility of correction.
His life, measured in space and time, will take up a mere few lines, which my ignorance will abbreviate further.
So long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Miserables cannot fail to be of use.
As long as superstition and ignorance prevail, humanity will fall short of eradicating war, poverty, and hunger.