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On the Kite, the situation was being 'workshopped'. This is the means by which people who don't know anything get together to pool their ignorance.

~ Terry Pratchett

Terry Pratchett Discworld Humor Ignorance Workshop

No emphaty when you had blinders on.

~ Toba Beta

Toba Beta Emphaty Ignorance

My book was not written in hate for Christians or disdain for the principles often associated with Jesus Christ—instead it was inspired by the ignorance that faith and religion often breed in humanity, the type of ignorance that allows people to self-identify as Christians (or any other religion) without having first researched the Holy Scriptures themselves in order to properly evaluate the religion’s veracity or falsity.

~ David G. Mcafee

David G. Mcafee Cultural Christianity Ignorance Inherited Religion Sheep

And where there is ignorance, there is also want of learning and instruction in essentials.

~ Epictetus

Epictetus Ignorance

Most Americans are close to total ignorance about the world. They are ignorant. That is an unhealthy condition in a country in which foreign policy has to be endorsed by the people if it is to be pursued. And it makes it much more difficult for any president to pursue an intelligent policy that does justice to the complexity of the world.

~ Zbigniew Brzeziński

Zbigniew Brzeziński Americans Foreign Policy Geopolitics Ignorance Populism

Imagine a land where people are afraid of dragons. It is a reasonable fear: dragons possess a number of qualities that make being afraid of them a very commendable response. Things like their terrible size, their ability to spout fire, or to crack boulders into splinters with their massive talons. In fact, the only terrifying quality that dragons do not possess is that of existence.Now, the people of this land know about dragons because their leaders have warned them about them. They tell stories about cruel dragons with razor teeth and fiery breath. They recount legends of dragons hunting by night on silent wings. In short, the leaders make sure that the people believe in all the qualities of dragons, including that key quality of existence. And then they control the people — when they need to — with their fear of dragons. The people pay a dragon-slaying tax … everyone stays indoors after dark to avoid being snatched by swooping claws … and nobody ever strays out of bounds for fear of being eaten well and tru

~ David Whiteland

David Whiteland Control Dragons Existence Faith Ignorance Superstition

Ignorance was bliss.

~ Chuck Palahniuk

Chuck Palahniuk Bliss Ignorance

We are not encouraged, on a daily basis, to pay careful attention to the animals we eat. On the contrary, the meat, dairy, and egg industries all actively encourage us to give thought to our own immediate interest (taste, for example, or cheap food) but not to the real suffering involved. They do so by deliberately withholding information and by cynically presenting us with idealized images of happy animals in beautiful landscapes, scenes of bucolic happiness that do not correspond to anything in the real world. The animals involved suffer agony because of our ignorance. The least we owe them is to lessen that ignorance.

~ Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson Animals Dairy Eggs Factory Farming Food Ignorance Industry Meat

…most of the damage we cause to the planet is the result of our own ignorance.

~ Yvon Chouinard

Yvon Chouinard Environmentalism Ignorance

During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What have been its fruits? More or less in all places, pride and indolence in the Clergy, ignorance and servility in the laity, in both, superstition, bigotry and persecution.

~ James Madison

James Madison Clergy Ignorance Persecution

Harshaw had the arrogant humility of the man who has learned so much that he is aware of his own ignorance and he saw no point in 'measurements' when he did not know what he was measuring.

~ Robert A. Heinlein

Robert A. Heinlein Arrogance Humility Ignorance Limitations

The risks of liberty we must let everyone take, but the risks of ignorance and self-helplessness are another matter.

~ George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw Ignorance Liberty Self Helplessness

There is a secret earth gyrm, a place where the unbelievable, the unthinkable, the terrible, takes place every day. A place hidden by the veils of ignorance and cowardice and fear. On occasions we glimpse it, when its hidden terrors fall through that veil into plain sight, but mostly we just dismiss it as something else, somewhere else, to be dealt with by someone else. Long ago I found the veil and lifted it. And knowing as I do what is behind, what those behind it get away with, with impunity ... I cannot grow old basking on the bank of some safe-haven, no.

~ Shaun Hick

Shaun Hick Ignorance Life Secret Earth

It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.

~ Charles Darwin

Charles Darwin Gnothi Sueton Ignorance

[American exceptionalism] is a reaction to the inability of people to understand global complexity or important issues like American energy dependency. Therefore, they search for simplistic sources of comfort and clarity. And the people that they are now selecting to be, so to speak, the spokespersons of their anxieties are, in most cases, stunningly ignorant.

~ Zbigniew Brzeziński

Zbigniew Brzeziński American Exceptionalism American People Foreign Policy Geopolitics Ignorance Populism

He stared at his feet. “I’m still very ignorant,” he said, “but at least I’m ignorant about really important things.

~ Terry Pratchett

Terry Pratchett Ignorance

How many consuming fires can there be in the words: freedom, peace and democracy and how easy they can be extinguished by ignorance, stupidity and arrogance?

~ Sorin Cerin

Sorin Cerin Arrogance Ignorance Stupidity

Martha said, Do you have any idea of the kind of surprise your brothers are in for sooner or later? Or are you doing it on purpose? Cord put his hat on and pulled it low, hiding his eyes. Grown man walks around with his eyes shut tight, he shouldn't be surprised if he bumps into something he didn't see. You aren't trying to convince anybody of anything they don't want to believe. Martha laughed. You win. I just hope I'm there when the blind men hit the wall.

~ Ellen O'connell

Ellen O'connell Ignorance

Prehistory of mankind is way too horrible to be remembered.But if we choose to ignore it, then we'll be doomed to repeat it.

~ Toba Beta

Toba Beta Doom Horrible Ignorance Mankind Prehistory Remember Repetition

For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian──ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection that unattainable by the highest art.

~ Lytton Strachey

Lytton Strachey Historian Ignorance

Consider this: when you stand at the entry to a steel factory, you can make out through the smoke some men, some metal, the fires. The furnaces roar, the hammers crash; and the metalworkers who forge ingots, weapons, tools, and so on are completely ignorant of the real uses to which their products will be put. The workers can only refer to their products by conventional names. Well, that's where we all stand, all of us! Nobody can see the real character of what he creates because every knife blade may become a dagger, and the use to which an object is put changes both its name and its nature. Only our ignorance shields us from terrible responsibilities.

~ Villiers De L'isle-Adam

Villiers De L'isle-Adam Ignorance Knife Production

And in that moment, I felt my own ignorance spread suddenly out behind me like a pair of wings, and every single thing I didn’t know was a feather on those wings. I could feel them tugging at the air, restless to be airborne.

~ Frank Cottrell Boyce

Frank Cottrell Boyce Ignorance Small Mindedness Unknowing

To specialize is to brush one tooth. When a person specializes he channels all of his energies through one narrow conduit, he knows one thing extremely well and is ignorant of almost everything else.

~ Tom Robbins

Tom Robbins Graduate Studies Ignorance Specialization

I guess ignorance is bliss - when I do interviews people always say, Aren't you upset that people make fun of you? and I'm like, Are they making fun of me? I guess I just don't get it.

~ Pamela Anderson

Pamela Anderson Bliss Ignorance

It was a tribute to Raphael that lesser artists wanted to copy his work, but this… this was a travesty. The fresco consisted of Galatea’s apotheosis, wherein she is surrounded by mythical creatures. A beautiful scene, with all the potential in the world, but very poorly executed here. Galatea herself looked vapid and empty. The rest of the painting indicated pure ignorance on the part of the painter. I shook my head in confusion. The giant Polyphemus was depicted with two normal eyes, when clearly he ought to have but one. Triton, for his horn, was using not a shell but an actual trumpet of brass. I nearly laughed aloud at that observation; would not such an instrument be completely destroyed by seawater? Who the devil had painted this monstrosity?

~ Kelsey Brickl

Kelsey Brickl Apotheosis Bad Art Fresco Galatea Ignorance Painter Painting Raphael Triton Vapid

He would never be that way again. He would never have the power of that specific kind of not-knowing.

~ Catherine Lacey

Catherine Lacey Catherine Lacey Changed Ignorance Irreversible Point Of No Return The Answers

Distractions can be disastrous if they are allowed, they will steal precious time and energy from most important things that matters in life.

~ Bamigboye Olurotimi

Bamigboye Olurotimi Choice Decision Disaster Distraction Energy Ignorance Important Life Procastination Steal

WE IGNORED TRUTHS FOR TEMPORARY HAPPINESS.

~ Bunny Naidu

Bunny Naidu Happiness Advice Happiness Quotes Ignorance Truth

There have always been ignorant people, but they haven't always had college degrees to make them unaware of their ignorance. Some people imagine that they are well informed because they have memorized a whole galaxy of trendy dogmas and fashionable attitudes.

~ Thomas Sowell

Thomas Sowell Academics Dogma Ignorance

Koch believed that what the famed economist Joseph Schumpeter called creative destruction was so critical to the health of the capitalist system that empathy was an obstacle to acceptance of the world that must be brought into being.

~ Nancy Maclean

Nancy Maclean America Charles G Koch Cult Ignorance Malice Oligarch

If those who know why and how neglect to act, those who do not know will act, and the world will continue to flounder.

~ Alfred Korzybski

Alfred Korzybski Ignorance Willingness

Ignorance is relatively easy to overcome, stupidity is much harder.

~ Marty Rubin

Marty Rubin Ignorance Stupidity

To recklessly excuse a failure is to believe that I’ve effectively erased it from the story of my life, when I’ve actually imprinted it in indelible ink.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Craig D. Lounsbrough Deceive Deceived Denial Deny Excuse Excuses Ignorance Ignore Immovable Indelible Ink Justification Justify Life Permanence Permanent Rationalization Rationalize Story Story Of Life

Not know it was hard,knowing it was harder

~ Toni Morrison

Toni Morrison Ignorance

Not knowing it was hard, knowing it was harder.

~ Toni Morrison

Toni Morrison Ignorance

We somehow have led ourselves to believe that our questions are big enough to encircle life, and that life is small enough to be contained by the answers. The real question might be, are we ignorant or just plain stupid?

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Craig D. Lounsbrough Answer Answers Arrogance Arrogant Bold Ego Egocentric Egotistical Ignorance Ignorant Life Misled Naive Naivete Narcissism Narcissistic Question Questions Stupid Stupidity

How safe and secure is the internet?Well.....Would you leave all your worldly belongings on the road and expect them to be there when you came back seven years later?

~ Anthony T. Hincks

Anthony T. Hincks Belongings Expect Ignorance Internet Philosophy Safe Secure Seven Stupidity Worldly Years

In a very tragic kind of way, sometimes things have to be gone before I fully realize that they were ever there.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Craig D. Lounsbrough Appreciate Appreciation Assume Assumptions Blind Blinded Careless Carelessness Cherish Cherishing Gone Granted Hold Dear Ignorance Ignore Lose Lost Take For Granted Tragedy Tragic Valuable Value

Ignorance is relatively easy to cure, stupidity is much harder.

~ Marty Rubin

Marty Rubin Ignorance Stupidity

Even a great philosophical idea when mixed with mysticism, turns into a dangerous weapon that becomes an impediment in the path of progress of developing communities.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Abhijit Naskar Developing Countries Global Progress Ignorance Metaphysics Mysticism Mystics Philosopher Philosophy Progress Scientist Social Development Thinker
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