#ignorant

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#expects #free #ignorant #nation #never

Darwin theorized that mankind (both male and female) evolved alongside each other over millions of years, both reproducing after their own kind before the ability to physically have sex evolved. They did this through “asexuality” (“without sexual desire or activity or lacking any apparent sex or sex organs”). Each of them split in half: “Asexual organisms reproduce by fission (splitting in half). ↗

— Ray Comfort

#evolution #ignorant #misinformation #science #science

At first sign of crisis, the ignorant don’t panic because they don’t know what’s going on, and then later they panic precisely because they don’t know what’s going on.
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— Jarod Kintz

#ignorance #ignorant #information #knowledge #panic

To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant. ↗

— Amos Bronson Alcott

#ignorant #malady

I do not have a brain that I long for in dealing with matters of which I am ignorant, that don't come within my ken and a rationale, a reason, and argument and so on, and I can't do that and I'm not in that bracket at all. ↗

— Richard Attenborough

#argument #bracket #brain #come #dealing

Men who are scandalized at the lack of freedom in Russia do not ask themselves how real is liberty among the poor, the weak, and the ignorant in capitalist society. ↗

— Emily Greene Balch

#ask #capitalist #capitalist society #freedom #how

I would not send a poor girl into the world, ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I watch and guard her, till, deprived of self-respect and self-reliance, she lost the power or the will to watch and guard herself . ↗

— Anne Bronte

#deprived #girl #guard #her #herself

Today's younger generation is no worse than my own. We were just as ignorant and repulsive as they are, but nobody listened to us. ↗

— Al Capp

#ignorant #just #listened #my own #nobody

I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

#charms #i #ignorant #into #introducing

Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred. ↗

— Jean de La Fontaine

#enemy #friend #ignorant #nothing #preferred