Quotes and sayings about tag  ignorance

Timendi causa est nescire - Ignorance is the cause of fear.

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• Life

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.

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• Wisdom

I've been saying it so long to you, you just wouldn't listen. Every time you said 'Farm Boy do this' you thought I was answering 'As you wish' but that's only because you were hearing wrong. 'I love you' was what it was, but you never heard.

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• Love

Travel brings wisdom only to the wise. It renders the ignorant more ignorant than ever.

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• Wisdom

Occasionally he stumbled over the truth, but hastily picked himself up and hurried on as if nothing had happened.

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• Truth

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

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• Life

To know that you do not know is the best.To think you know when you do not is a disease.Recognizing this disease as a disease is to be free of it.

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• Knowledge

When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

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• Humor

A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.

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• Education

... there is no shame in not knowing. The problem arises when irrational thought and attendant behavior fill the vacuum left by ignorance.

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• Knowledge

Education is a system of imposed ignorance.

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• Education

It has become almost a cliché to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.

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• Science

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

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• Education

It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.

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• Knowledge

He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.

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• Wisdom