Ignorance Quotes - page 56

Miriamele was dismayed by her own willful ignorance. How could she, with all her native good fortune, be so consumed with the few inconveniences that God or fate had put in her way? It was shameful. She tried to tell Duke Isgrimnur something of her thoughts, but he would not let her slide too far into self-loathing. "Each one of us has our own sorrows, Princess,” he said. "It's no shame to take them to heart. The only sin is to forget that other folk have theirs, too-or to let pity for yourself slow your hand when someone needs help.”. (Tad Williams)
Thank you for your news, Princess. It is none of it happy, but only a fool desires cheerful ignorance and I try not to be a fool. That is my heaviest burden. View quote
Tad Williams
Faith is that which, knowing the Lord's will, goes and does it or, not knowing it, stands and waits, content in ignorance as in knowledge, because God wills neither pressing into the hidden future, nor careless of the knowledge which opens the path of action. View quote
George MacDonald
Science reveals where religion conceals. Where religion purports to explain, it actually resorts to tautology. To assert that "God did it" is no more than an admission of ignorance dressed deceitfully as an explanation. View quote
Peter Atkins
Nationalism has been the great curse of humanity. In no other shape has the Demon of Ignorance assumed more hideous proportions; to no other obsession do we yield ourselves more readily. View quote
William Osler
To confess ignorance is often wiser than to beat about the bush with a hypothetical diagnosis. View quote
William Osler
Ignorance and arrogance are the artist's and entrepreneur's indispensable allies. She must be clueless enough to have no idea how difficult her enterprise is going to be and cocky enough to believe she can pull it off anyway." View quote
Steven Pressfield
Concerning all acts of initiative there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. View quote
Steven Pressfield
If we were born to overthrow the order of ignorance and injustice of the world, it's our job to realize it and get down to business. View quote
Steven Pressfield
All that belongs to human understanding, in this deep ignorance and obscurity, is to be skeptical, or at least cautious and not to admit of any hypothesis, whatsoever much less, of any which is supported by no appearance of probability. View quote
David Hume
The role of reason is not to make us wise but to reveal our ignorance. (David Hume)
My characters have nothing. I'm working with impotence, ignorance... that whole zone of being that has always been set aside by artists as something unusable - something by definition incompatible with art. View quote
Samuel Beckett
"You err, not knowing the Scriptures nor the power of God" This canon is the mother of all canons against heresy; the causes of error are two; the ignorance of the will of God, and the ignorance or not sufficient consideration of his power. View quote
Francis Bacon
Neither did the dispensation of God vary in the times after our Saviour came into the world; for our Saviour himself did first show His power to subdue ignorance, by His conference with the priests and doctors of the law, before He showed His power to subdue nature by His miracles. View quote
Francis Bacon
In civil business what first boldness what second and third boldness and yet boldness is a child of ignorance and baseness. View quote
Francis Bacon
Boldness is a child of ignorance. View quote
Francis Bacon
God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray. View quote
John Calvin
Opinion of ghosts, ignorance of second causes, devotion to what men fear, and talking of things casual for prognostics, consisteth the natural seeds of religion. View quote
Thomas Hobbes
It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block. View quote
Paul Gauguin
Ignorance is poverty. Ignorance is pain. I don't want you to go through that. So what I'm trying to do is save you decades of time by bringing you the best. View quote
Anthony Robbins
The vast majority of lameness in the domestic horse world cannot be understood properly or completely without considering the effects of abuse. Although many might argue to the contrary, most lameness among horses is really more an issue of ignorance, violence, and complicity than is of veterinary medicine; veterinar scools, clinics, and slaughterhouses are simply the processing stations that have to deal with it. What is not an issue here are injuries that stem from unfortunate accidents, where the horse enthusiasts made an honest miscalculation or innocently followed the bad advice of someome they trusted. What is of concern is abuse that results from neglect and bad intent. (Jaime Jackson)
Ignorance is degrading only when found in company with great riches. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
I insist that my positive knowledge, however small, is not to be set aside for the gentleman's ignorance, however great. View quote
Leonard Bacon
When grown people speak of the innocence of children, they don't really know what they mean. Pressed, they will go a step further and say, Well, ignorance then. The child is neither. There is no crime which a boy of eleven had not envisaged long ago. His only innocence is, he may not yet be old enough to desire the fruits of it ... his ignorance is, he does not know how to commit it. View quote
William Faulkner
The scientist has a lot of experience with ignorance and doubt and uncertainty, and this experience is of very great importance, I think. View quote
Richard Feynman