ignorance Quotes

“Ignoring isn't the same as ignorance”

― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

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“If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn.”

― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

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“People are bloody ignorant apes.”

― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

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“Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant.”

― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

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“Falsity consists solely in the privation of knowledge which inadequate ideas involve”

― Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

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“Nevertheless, so profound is our ignorance, and so high our presumption, that we marvel when we hear of the extinction of an organic being; and as we do not see the cause, we invoke cataclysms to desolate the world, or invent laws on the duration...”

― Charles Darwin, On The Origin of Species

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“A man's mind—what there is of it—has always the advantage of being masculine,—as the smallest birch-tree is of a higher kind than the most soaring palm,—and even his ignorance is of a sounder quality.”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

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“Such is the influence of custom, that, where it is strongest, it not only covers our natural ignorance, but even conceals itself, and seems not to take place, merely because it is found in the highest degree.”

― David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

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“And Credulity, because men love to be hearkened unto in company, disposeth them to lying: so that Ignorance it selfe without Malice, is able to make a man bothe to believe lyes, and tell them; and sometimes also to invent them.”

― Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

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“Most people don't know what they're doing, and a lot of them are really good at it.”

― George Carlin, Napalm & Silly Putty

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