Quotes About Ignorance

Accumulation of wealth at one pole is at the same time accumulation of misery, agony of toil, slavery, ignorance, brutality, mental degradation, at the opposite pole

You must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.

We've tried ignorance for a thousand years. It's time we try education.

My top most priority is to deal with India's massive social and economic problems, so that chronic poverty, ignorance and disease can be conquered in a reasonably short period of time.

An illusion of depth often occurs if a blockhead is a muddlehead at the same time

The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future.

Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending; a negligent youth is usually attended by an ignorant middle age, and both by an empty old age.

In fact, the only way to remain creative over time--to not be undone by our expertise--is to experiment with ignorance, to stare at things we don't fully understand.

We are hurtling back into a Soviet abyss, into an information vacuum that spells death from our own ignorance. All we have left is the internet, where information is still freely available. For the rest, if you want to go on working as a journalist, it's total servility to Putin. Otherwise, it can be death, the bullet, poison, or trial—whatever our special services, Putin's guard dogs, see fit.

The poor are not property owners, so the democrats ignored them. The nationalists did not. Not

There's something undeniable about the posture of a person trying not to acknowledge your existance

Ignorance is death. A closed mind is a catafalque.

It was easy to figure out how people ought to behave out in the world if you never went out in the world yourself.

Sadece bilgisizlik mi! Sadece bilgisizlikten, ha! Nas?l sadece bilgisizlikten diyebilirsin? Kötü kalplilikten sonra dünyadaki en kötü ÅŸey bilgisizlik, haberin yok mu? En çok hangisinin zararl? olduÄŸunu ancak Tanr? bilir. Ä°nsanlar ' Ah! bilmiyordum, kötü bir niyetim yoktu' deyince her ÅŸeyin yoluna giriverdiÄŸini san?yorlar.

If the Russian people and the Russian elite remembered - viscerally, emotionally remembered - what Stalin did to the Chechens, they could not have invaded Chechnya in the 1990s, not once and not twice. To do so was the moral equivalent of postwar Germany invading western Poland. Very few Russians saw it that way - which is itself evidence of how little they know about their own history.

The audience consisted of young toughs from the shops and the banks and that type of ageing ex-serviceman who has pathetically retained his military rank from the war. It was the people of England who, in Chesterton's poem, have not yet spoken. God help England if they ever do, for they are a mass of prejudice, ignorance, intolerance and cruelty.

ostrich policy.

few nights ago I was the topic of discussion, and we all decided I was an ignoramus.

Sin is not just affairs, or porn shops, or drug cartels. It is also the ignorance and brokenness of the world, extreme self-centeredness, hoarding wealth, using others as objects, not caring.

Complacency and ignorance, Zebara suggested, pouring more brandy. A very good way to keep a large population so tractable the society lacks rebellion.

Mankind has a history of forgetting the unpleasant, the undesirable. Bu ignoring its existence, it can make the source of past Terror disappear.

Mankind has a history of forgetting the unpleasant, the undesirable. But ignoring its existence, it can make the source of past Terror disappear.

La propia ignorancia sigue creciendo precisamente al mismo ritmo que la propia experiencia.

What was humility unless one possessed the courage to admit error, ignorance and futility, the strength to go back and begin again?