Fate is unalterable only in the sense that given a cause, a certain result must follow, but no cause is inevitable in itself, and man can shape his world if he does not resign himself to ignorance.
Pearl S. BuckTags: education choice fate ignorance understanding self-determination destiny
Is it not ignorance that we share? A lie takes two. The truth we find alone.
Anthony MaraisTags: truth ignorance lies-lying-liars
Read it wisely, Little One, for the power of ignorance is great.
Stephen FryTags: power read ignorance wisely
Nothing limits intelligence more than ignorance; nothing fosters ignorance more than one's own opinions; nothing strengthens opinions more than refusing to look at reality.
Sheri S. TepperTags: intelligence reality opinions ignorance blindness narrow-mindedness reality-check
Ah, I see. You don't know much about us and the unknown equals the barbaric, the primitive. Although it is you lot who are ignorant.
Andrew AshlingTags: knowledge ignorance intolerance primitive barbarian unknow
Even one voice in a wilderness of ignorance is a voice that is heard by someone.
Kristen AshleyTags: truth knowledge power ignorance life-lessons
A few years after I gave some lectures for the freshmen at Caltech (which were published as the Feynman Lectures on Physics), I received a long letter from a feminist group. I was accused of being anti-women because of two stories: the first was a discussion of the subtleties of velocity, and involved a woman driver being stopped by a cop. There's a discussion about how fast she was going, and I had her raise valid objections to the cop's definitions of velocity. The letter said I was making the women look stupid.
The other story they objected to was told by the great astronomer Arthur Eddington, who had just figured out that the stars get their power from burning hydrogen in a nuclear reaction producing helium. He recounted how, on the night after his discovery, he was sitting on a bench with his girlfriend. She said, "Look how pretty the stars shine!" To which he replied, "Yes, and right now, I'm the only man in the world who knows how they shine." He was describing a kind of wonderful loneliness you have when you make a discovery.
The letter claimed that I was saying a women is incapable of understanding nuclear reactions.
I figured there was no point in trying to answer their accusations in detail, so I wrote a short letter back to them: "Don't bug me, Man!
Tags: misinterpreted ignorance deep-thoughts humor-inspirational misinformation ignoring-issues two-sides-to-the-story judgmentality richard-feynman misinterpretation action-over-thought incapable-of-interpreted incapable-of-understanding
There’s a fascinating frailty of the human mind that psychologists know all about, called “argument from ignorance.” This is how it goes. Remember what the “U” stands for in “UFO”? You see lights flashing in the sky. You’ve never seen anything like this before and don’t understand what it is. You say, “It’s a UFO!” The “U” stands for “unidentified.”
But then you say, “I don’t know what it is; it must be aliens from outer space, visiting from another planet.” The issue here is that if you don’t know what something is, your interpretation of it should stop immediately. You don’t then say it must be X or Y or Z. That’s argument from ignorance. It’s common. I’m not blaming anybody; it may relate to our burning need to manufacture answers because we feel uncomfortable about being steeped in ignorance.
Tags: people ignorance aliens definition ufo
What a culture we live in, we are swimming in an ocean of information, and drowning in ignorance.
Richard Paul EvansTags: ignorance information culture
People talk about history and things like slavery, genocide, and religious persecution as horrors that happened in the past because we were ignorant. But nothing's changed. We still hate what we don't understand.
J. Matthew NespoliTags: fear war hatred prejudice ignorance crime bigotry
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