#ignorance

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

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

— H. L. Mencken

#collective #democracy #ignorance #individual #pathetic

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 always afraid of change. ↗

— Jawaharlal Nehru

#always #change #ignorance

The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned. ↗

— Gerard De Nerval

#cast #evil #generations #good #ignorance

When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds. ↗

— Will Rogers

#gets #ignorance #knows #started