#ignorance

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives. ↗

— James Madison

#arm #forever #gives #govern #governors

Situational unawareness in the private marketplace or on the battlefield will cost you your livelihood or your life. In the Age of Obama, however, such willful ignorance is a job prerequisite. The less you know the better. ↗

— Michelle Malkin

#battlefield #better #cost #however #ignorance

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

The Age of Information, Has turned out to be the Age of Ignorance. ↗

— Mark Crispin Miller

#ignorance #information #out #turned

So far as I know, there were no pains taken to preserve secrecy on this subject; that is, I saw no attempt made to keep any of the inmates of the Convent in ignorance of the murder of children. ↗

— Maria Monk

#attempt #children #convent #far #i

Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#his #ignorance #man #pillow #rest

I have been judged to be a pessimist but what abyss of ignorance and low egoism is not hidden in one who thinks that Man is the god of himself and that his future can only be triumphant? ↗

— Eugenio Montale

#been #egoism #future #god #hidden

Ignorance is always afraid of change. ↗

— Jawaharlal Nehru

#always #change #ignorance

Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#ignorance #itself #obeys #reason #submits