#ignorance

All around me insisted that my doubts proved only my own ignorance and sinfulness; that they knew by experience they would soon give place to true knowledge, and an advance in religion; and I felt something like indecision. ↗

— Maria Monk

#around #doubts #experience #felt #give

Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#anyway #causes #even #fundamental #greed

All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance. ↗

— Will Rogers

#i #ignorance #just #know #papers

Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care. ↗

— William Safire

#care #caused #i #ignorance #know

We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#also #arranged #away #blow #combustible

To attempt to superimpose its views through the exercise of force, is seldom the part of intelligence; it is frequently the part of ignorance. ↗

— Paul Harris

#exercise #force #frequently #ignorance #intelligence

It ain't ignorance that causes all the trouble in this world. It's the things people know that ain't so. ↗

— Edwin Armstrong

#ignorance #know #people #things #trouble

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. ↗