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#ignorance

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #ignorance




I will not dumb myself down to make someone else more comfortable with their ignorance.


Kelli Jae Baeli


#intelligence #intelligence

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.


Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


#ignorance #life #prejudice #life

We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.


Warren Weaver


#getting #ignorance #keep #more #more and more

It is always a much easier task to educate uneducated people than to re-educate the mis-educated.


Herbert M. Shelton


#ignorance #indoctrination #propaganda #education

Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to the mind, when it has once seized on it, like a lichen on the rock. I wished sometimes to shake off all thought and feeling; but I learned that there was but one means to overcome the sensation of pain, and that was death-a state which I feared yet did not understand.


Mary Shelley


#ignorance #knowledge #pain #death

When all this is over, people will try to blame the Germans alone, and the Germans will try to blame the Nazis alone, and the Nazis will try to blame Hitler alone. They will make him bear the sins of the world. But it's not true. You suspected what was happening, and so did I. It was already too late over a year ago. I caused a reporter to lose his job because you told me to. He was deported. The day I did that I made my little contribution to civilization, the only one that matters.


Iain Pears


#civilization #cowardice #denunciation #deportation #evil

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. The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever.


Oscar Wilde


#ignorance #education

Incompetence in mathematics is no proof of brilliance. You must be ignorant of science and geography as well. That is the gold standard of American education.


Bauvard


#funny #humor #ignorance #math #science

Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence.


Richard Dawkins


#education #enlighten #evidence #ignorance #knowledge

People are afraid of being more ignorant than their children―especially, apparantly, their daughters.


Daniel C. Dennett


#ignorance #education






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