ignorance Quotes

“The free man, who lives among the ignorant, strives, as far as he can, to avoid receiving favours from them.”

― Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

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“If a faithful account was rendered of Man's ideas upon Divinity, he would be obliged to acknowledge, that for the most part the word 'gods' has been used to express the concealed, remote, unknown causes of the effects he witnessed”

― Paul Thiry d'Holbach,

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“And in these foure things, Opinion of Ghosts, Ignorance of second causes, Devotion towards what men fear, and Taking of things Casuall for Prognostiques, consisteth the Naturall seed of Religion”

― Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

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“There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion;”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

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“Man . . . how ignorant art thou in thy pride of wisdom!”

― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

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“The less a tourist knows, the fewer mistakes he need make, for he will not expect himself to explain ignorance.”

― Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams

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“Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal; and he may properly be charged with evil who refused to learn how he might prevent it.”

― Samuel Johnson, The History of Rasselas

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“Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before . . . He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.”

― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle

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“I wanted to know, not for the love of knowledge but as a defence against the world's contempt for the ignorant.”

― Charlie Chaplin, My Autobiography

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“I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

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