#ignorance

The greatest of all the accomplishments of 20th century science has been the discovery of human ignorance ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#science

The ever more sophisticated weapons piling up in the arsenals of the wealthiest and the mightiest can kill the illiterate, the ill, the poor and the hungry, but they cannot kill ignorance, illness, poverty or hunger. ↗

— Fidel Castro

#ignorance #illness #oppression #poverty #war

Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy ↗

— Phyllis McGinley

#ignorance #knowledge #marriage #wisdom #life

Ignorance and prejudice are the handmaidens of propaganda. Our mission, therefore, is to confront ignorance with knowledge, bigotry with tolerance, and isolation with the outstretched hand of generosity. Racism can, will, and must be defeated. ↗

— Kofi Annan

#intolerance #prejudice #racism #tolerance #defeat

The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies. ↗

— Bela Lugosi

#community #former #ignorance #kept #lies

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#error #ignorance #less #nothing #preferable

A jury is a group of twelve people of average ignorance. ↗

— Herbert Spencer

#group #ignorance #jury #people #twelve

To attempt to superimpose its views through the exercise of force, is seldom the part of intelligence; it is frequently the part of ignorance. ↗

— Paul Harris

#exercise #force #frequently #ignorance #intelligence

I pretty much operate on adrenaline and ignorance. ↗

— Johnny Knoxville

#i #ignorance #much #operate #pretty

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#beware #dangerous #false #ignorance #knowledge