#ignorant

To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#creatures #death #divine #except #ignorant

Before the war there were many who were more or less ignorant of the international labor movement but who nevertheless turned to it for salvation when the threat of war arose. They hoped that the workers would never permit a war. ↗

— Hjalmar Branting

#before #hoped #ignorant #international #labor

True science teaches, above all, to doubt and to be ignorant. ↗

— Miguel de Unamuno

#doubt #ignorant #science #teaches #true

In order to maintain an untenable position, you have to be actively ignorant. One motto on the show is, 'Keep your facts, I'm going with the truth.' ↗

— Stephen Colbert

#facts #going #i #ignorant #keep

Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales. ↗

— Aleister Crowley

#drunk #facts #fighting #ignorant #instincts

Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness. ↗

— George Eliot

#cruelty #direct #effect #ignorant #kindness

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#greater #ignorant #learned #than

I regard it in fact as the great advantage of the mathematical technique that it allows us to describe, by means of algebraic equations, the general character of a pattern even where we are ignorant of the numerical values which will determine its particular manifestation. ↗

— Friedrich August von Hayek

#allows #character #describe #determine #equations

It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant. ↗

— Don Herold

#ignorant #lot #one thing #only #prove

What's really sad is that so many young women between the ages of 16 and 25 are ignorant and they already believe that women get the same pay as men. They don't even really understand that equality hasn't happened with the pay force. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#already #believe #between #equality #even