#ignorance

Ignorance is the primary source of all misery and vice. ↗

— Victor Cousin

#misery #primary #primary source #source #vice

The cause of violence is not ignorance. It is self-interest. Only reverance can restrain violence - reverance for human life and the environment. ↗

— William Sloane Coffin, Jr.

#environment #human #human life #ignorance #life

Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#history #ignorance #our #own #slander

Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water. ↗

— Anatole France

#error #ignorance #life #like #necessary

I am not a great theologian. I know there is a theological concept called invincible ignorance in which a strong enough faith binds you to any facts to the contrary. ↗

— Barney Frank

#any #binds #called #concept #contrary

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#daughter #ignorance

One column of truth cannot hold an institution of ideas from falling into ignorance. It is wiser that a person of prudence and purpose save his strength for battles that can be won. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#cannot #column #falling #his #hold

It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't. ↗

— Mignon McLaughlin

#ignorance #innocence #us

I do not believe 'Newsweek' is the only catcher in the rye between democracy and ignorance, but I think we're one of them, and I don't think there are that many on the edge of that cliff. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#between #catcher #catcher in the rye #cliff #democracy

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#collective #democracy #ignorance #individual #pathetic