The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.
William OslerI suspect that much of life is like that. We seldom see what is closest to our eyes.
Jack WhyteStichwörter: ignorance
The ever more sophisticated weapons piling up in the arsenals of the wealthiest and the mightiest can kill the illiterate, the ill, the poor and the hungry, but they cannot kill ignorance, illness, poverty or hunger.
Fidel CastroStichwörter: wealth war weapons ignorance oppression poverty illness hunger weapons-of-mass-destruction
Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. No one in this world, so far as I know—and I have researched the records for years, and employed agents to help me—has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.
H.L. MenckenStichwörter: humor politics intelligence belief democracy ignorance government political-commentary pathetic public-office
A winner knows how much he still has to learn, even when he is considered an expert by others; a loser wants to be considered an expert by others before he has learned enough to know how little he knows.
Sydney J. HarrisStichwörter: ignorance personal-growth
When we set out on the path, we always have a fairly clear idea of what we hope to find. Women are generally seeking their Soul Mate, and men looking for Power. Neither party is really interested in learning. They simply want to reach the thing they have set as their goal.
Paulo CoelhoStichwörter: life ignorance expectation
I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
Adlai E. Stevenson IIStichwörter: politics ignorance forgiveness beliefs
...it is not to be understood that I am with him [Jesus] in all his doctrines. I am a Materialist, he takes the side of spiritualism; he preaches the efficacy of repentance toward forgiveness of sin. I require a counterpoise of good works to redeem it... Among the sayings
Thomas JeffersonStichwörter: atheism ignorance forgiveness atheist materialism absurdity good-works contradictions materialist untruth
Henry's universe was modeled on the highball. It was a mixture in which half a pint of the fizziest philosophical and scientific ideas all but drowned a small jigger of immediate experience, most of it strictly sexual. Broken reeds are seldom good mixers. They're far too busy with their ideas, their sensuality and their psychosomatic complaints to be able to take an interest in other people - even their own wives and children. They live in a state of the most profound voluntary ignorance, not knowing anything about anybody, but abounding in preconceived opinions about everything.
Aldous HuxleyStichwörter: experience ignorance huxley intellect
What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears.
Alice WalkerStichwörter: ignorance understanding superstition
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