#ignorance

Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it. ↗

— Edward F. Halifax

#go #ignorance #into #keeps #makes

A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance. ↗

— Herbert Spencer

#composed #ignorance #jury #men #twelve

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance. ↗

— Socrates

#fact #i #ignorance #know #nothing

There is no darkness but ignorance. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#ignorance

A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission. ↗

— Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

#come #discoverer #great #great idea #great ideas

I consider nothing low but ignorance, vice, and meanness, characteristics generally found where the animal propensities predominate over the higher sentiments. ↗

— William John Wills

#characteristics #consider #found #generally #higher

There are people who are generic. They make generic responses and they expect generic answers. They live inside a box and they think people who don't fit into their box are weird. But I'll tell you what, generic people are the weird people. They are like genetically-manipulated plants growing inside a laboratory, like indistinguishable faces, like droids. Like ignorance. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#differences #droids #fitting-in #generic #generic-people

Herein lies the tragedy of the age: Not that men are poor, - all men know something of poverty. Not that men are wicked, - who is good? Not that men are ignorant, - what is truth? Nay, but that men know so little of men. ↗

— W.E.B. Du Bois

#ignorance #age

An age is called Dark, not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it. ↗

— James A. Michener

#age

Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education. ↗

— Stephen R. Covey

#education #ignorance #change