Quotes About Ignorance

His mind was spinning endless threads of conjecture that snarled constantly around his ignorance.

Our trouble is not ignorance, but inaction.

We have all read the golden rule and the Sermon on the Mount. Our trouble is not ignorance, but inaction.

My people perish from lack of knowledge" (Hos 4:6).

They do not know what they are doing and do not have the ability to distance themselves from it so they can see it for what it is. That is the power of "culture.

We can fail to know because we do not want to know - because what would be known would require us to believe and act in ways contrary to what we want.

That is, his death was a revelation of the nature of basic reality. Without knowledge of it and its meaning, we are desperately ignorant of reality, and therefore all our thinking can only result in monstrous falsehoods.

How does Paul describe the mind caught up in the world? Futile, full of things that do not matter, darkened, blind.

Small minds have always lashed out at what they don't understand.

We all fear what we do not understand.

There comes a moment in history when ignorance is no longer a forgivable offense... a moment when only wisdom has the power to absolve. - Bertrand Zobrist

But who is more ignorant? The man who cannot define lightning, or the man who does not respect its awesome power?

To permit ignorance is to empower it.

We fear what we do not understand...

Misunderstanding a culture's symbols is a common root of predujice.

To permit ignorance is to empower it. To do nothing as our leaders proclaim absurdities is a crime of complacency. As is letting our schools and churches teach outright untruths to our children.

There comes a moment in history when ignorance is no longer a forgivable offense....a moment when only wisdom has the power to absolve

Forgive them, you might say, for they know not what they do. But there comes a moment in history when ignorance is no longer a forgivable offense, a moment when only wisdom has the power to absolve.

Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes! – LEONARDO DA VINCI

Semakin banyak manusia belajar, semakin banyak dia menyadari ketidaktahuannya.

Since the beginning of time, the ignorant have always screamed the loudest...They celebrated their intolerance as proof of their convictions. Now after all these years, mankind had finally managed to utterly erode everything that had once been so beautiful about Jesus.

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Forgive them, you might say, for they know not what they do. But there comes a moment in history when ignorance is no longer a forgivable offense... a moment when only wisodom has the power to absolve.

To permit ignorance is to empower it. To do nothing as our leaders proclaim absurdities is a crime of complacency. As is letting our schools and churches teach outright untruths to our children. The time for action has come. Not until we purge our species of superstitious thinking can we embrace all that our minds have to offer.