ignorance Quotes

“And, in fine, of false sciences I thought I knew the worth sufficiently to escape being deceived by the professions of an alchemist, the predictions of an astrologer, the impostures of a magician, or by the artifices and boasting of any of those...”

― René Descartes, Discourse on the Method

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“But, above all, it will confer an inestimable benefit on morality and religion, by showing that all the objections urged against them may be silenced for ever by the Socratic method, that is to say, by proving the ignorance of the objector.”

― Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason

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“A man's life would be intolerable if he knew what is to befall him.”

― Anatole France, The Gods Are Athirst

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“One can't judge till one's forty; before that we're too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.”

― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

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“When I see the blindness and the wretchedness of man, when I regard the whole silent universe, and man without light, left to himself, and, as it were, lost in this corner of the universe, without knowing who has put him there, what he has come...”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

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“And seeing ignorance is the curse of God,Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven,Unless you be possess'd with devilish spirits,You cannot but forbear to murder me:”

― William Shakespeare, Henry VI

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“I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.”

― J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

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“it would be better to know nothing than to know so little, so imperfectly”

― Denis Diderot, Rameau's Nephew

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“There are forces . . . infinitely more powerful than reason and science . . . Ignorance and folly”

― Anatole France, Thaïs

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“Most men, even in this comparatively free country, through mere ignorance and mistake, are so occupied with the factitious cares and superfluously coarse labors of life that its finer fruits cannot be plucked by them.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

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