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Throught human history, illusions of knowledge, not ignorance, have proven to be the principal obstacles to discovery
The main cause of poverty or financial struggle is fear and ignorance, not the economy or the government or the rich.
The samsara is the sense of self. I've had past experiences. I'm aware of the moment. I will have future experiences.
Ignorance is never out of style. It was in fashion yesterday, it is the rage today and it will set the pace tomorrow.
Creating a poem is a continual process of re-creating your ignorance, in the sense of not knowing what's coming next.
A play is made by sensing how the forces in life simulate ignorance-you set free the concealed irony, the deadly joke.
This self-congratulatory notion Americans have that their country is Number One is borne of ignorance and bad manners.
The older we grow the greater becomes our wonder at how much ignorance one can contain without bursting one's clothes.
We can't see and we can't reach the frontiers of our ignorance; we can only approach to it by extending our knowledge.
Silence is the only answer you should give to the fools. Where ignorance speaks, intelligence should not give advices.
Accept ignorance; pay more attention to the question than the answer; never be afraid to go in the opposite direction.
There is no such thing as chance or accident; the words merely signify our ignorance of some real and immediate cause.
When people do not ignore what they should ignore, but ignore what they should not ignore, this is known as ignorance.
Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance.
Pride is not the heritage of man; humility should dwell with frailty, and atone for ignorance, error, and imperfection.
In general, while Trump has been a master of Twitter, he has shown an aversion to, and ignorance of, technology itself.
A judicious man looks at Statistics, not to "get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted 'on him".
It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.
Travelers perceptions do not always reflect the reality of a situation, and ignorance is costing the industry billions.
Of power does Man possess no particle: Of knowledge-just so much as show that still It ends in ignorance on every side.
The scriptures say to wake up from the deep sleep of ignorance, remain fully awake, remain conscious, & go on learning.
Going to university is only one avenue to gain knowledge. There are others. A degree isn't insurance against ignorance.
In the Bible the ignorant may learn all requisite knowledge, and the most knowing may learn to discern their ignorance.
We can choose between the future and the past, between reason and ignorance, between true compassion and mere ideology.
Religions have depended on the relative isolation and ignorance of their flocks, forever and this is all breaking down.
Be thorough in all you do; and remember that although ignorance often may be innocent, pretension is always despicable.
Absolute certainty is a privilege of uneducated minds and fanatics. - It is, for scientific folk, an unattainable ideal.
How happy is it for us, that the admiration of others should depend so much more on their ignorance than our perfection!
What is necessary to keep providing good care to nature has completely fallen into ignorance during the materialism era.
Uncertainty and fear and ignorance about immigrants, about people who are different, has a history as old as our Nation.
Far and away, the greatest threat to the ocean, and thus to ourselves, is ignorance. But we can do something about that.
Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.
God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance that's getting smaller and smaller and smaller as time moves on.
Uncertainty that comes from knowledge (knowing what you don't know) is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.
A cure by regression is homeopathic, like healing the damage done by ministers and ignorance with stupidity and Jesuits.
Backward is just not a natural direction for Americans to look - historical ignorance remains a national characteristic.
There is a danger, increasingly, that we're in a post-fact society where it seems my ignorance is as good as your facts.
Want is one only of five giants on the road of reconstruction; the others are Disease, Ignorance, Squalor, and Idleness.
He must be able to mystify his officers and men by false reports and appearances, and thus keep them in total ignorance.
Curiosity killed the cat, but where human beings are concerned, the only thing a healthy curiosity can kill is ignorance.
The humblest person in this world is the astrophysicist. Because we are face to face with our ignorance every single day.
A gentleman will walk but never run.. it takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile.. be yourself no matter what they say.
A man is not moral because he is obedient through fear or ignorance. Morality lives in the realm of perceived obligation.
Why is it that the choice among churches always seems to be the choice between intelligence on ice and ignorance on fire?
When moral superiority combines with billowing ignorance, they fill up a hot-air balloon that's awfully hard not to poke.
The value of hatred and ignorance is found in the fact that without them we could never truly appreciate wisdom and love.
The level of ignorance is declining, and the ability to accumulate data and manipulate it for various ends is increasing.
Nothing will divide this nation more than ignorance, and nothing can bring us together better than an educated population.
Of course the 19th century remained in blissful ignorance of post-modern irony, and the dime novels were made without end.
The world is full of small ignorances. We must all do our best to ignore them and thereby keep them small, don't you think