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Letter "I" » Ignorance
«To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.»
Author: Amos Bronson Alcott
(Philosopher, Teacher)
| About:
Ignorance
| Keywords:
ignorant, maladies, malady
«We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.»
«The two pillars of 'political correctness' are:a) willful ignoranceb) a steadfast refusal to face the truth»
Author: George MacDonald
| About:
Ignorance,
Politics
| Keywords:
correctness, pillared, pillars, Pillars of, political, political correctness, refusal, Refusals, steadfast, willful
«This is the man (Ronald Reagan) who proved that ignorance is no handicap to the presidency»
Author: Molly Ivins
| About:
Ignorance,
Presidency
| Keywords:
presidency, Reagan, Ronald, Ronald Reagan, the presidency
«To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today»
«The truest characters of ignorance are vanity, and pride and arrogance.»
Author: Samuel Butler
| About:
Arrogance,
Ignorance,
Pride,
Vanity
| Keywords:
arrogance, characters, Pride and, truest, vanity
«The vanity of the sciences. Physical science will not console me for the ignorance of morality in the time of affliction. But the science of ethics will always console me for the ignorance of the physical sciences.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| About:
Ethics,
Ignorance,
Physics,
Science
| Keywords:
affliction, console, physical science, sciences, the sciences
«The whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other»
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
| About:
Ignorance,
Pride
| Keywords:
beget, incestuous, mutually, Pride and
«The road to ignorance is paved with good editions»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Ignorance
| Keywords:
edition, editions, paved
«The tax which will be paid for the purpose of education is not more than the thousandth part of what will be paid to kings, priests and nobles who will rise up among us if we leave the people in ignorance»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Education,
Ignorance,
Taxation
| Keywords:
kings, nobles, paid, priests, rise, rise up, tax, thousandth, thousandths
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