#ignorance

Without feeling abashed by my ignorance, I confess that I am absolutely unable to say. In the absence of an appearance of learning, my answer has at least one merit, that of perfect sincerity. ↗

— Jean Henri Fabre

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I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart. ↗

— Countess of Blessington

#chains #forged #ignorance #keep #men

It is not enough to be well-intentioned; one must strive to put those intentions into action in a capable way. One must consider the effect his actions will have on others. Looked at like this, to persist in ignorance is itself dishonorable. ↗

— Andrew Cohen

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Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Ignorance is ultimately the worst enemy of a people who want to be free. ↗

— Jonathan Hennessey

#freedom #ignorance #education

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance. ↗

— Confucius

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Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

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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; that he applies this term when the spring of the natural, the source of known causes, ceases to be visible: as soon as he loses the thread of these causes, or as soon as his mind can no longer follow the chain, he solves the difficulty, terminates his research, by ascribing it to his gods  …   When, therefore, he ascribes to his gods the production of some phenomenon  …   does he, in fact, do any thing more than substitute for the darkness of his own mind, a sound to which he has been accustomed to listen with reverential awe? ↗

— Paul Henri Thiry d'Holbach

#divinity #gods #ignorance #knowledge #materialism

Art hath an enemy called Ignorance. ↗

— Ben Jonson

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