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the Week of Proper 2 / Ordinary 7
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Quotations regarding 'Ignorance'

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With attention deficit democracy, I am trying to wake up people to how the combination of mass ignorance, fear mongering by the government, and lying politicians is putting our entire system of government to a death spiral.
James Bovard, Author
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
Christian Nestell Bovee, American Author
There is no stopping the world's tendency to throw off imposed restraints, the religious authority that is based on the ignorance of the many, the political authority that is based on the knowledge of the few.
Van Wyck Brooks, American Critic (1886-1963)
An ignorance of means may minister to greatness, but an ignorance of aims make it impossible to be great at all.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, English Poet (1806-1861)
Is it ignorance or apathy? Hey, I don't know and I don't care.
Jimmy Buffett, American Musician (1946-  )
When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results.
Warren Buffett, American Businessman (1930-  )
True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.
Abigail Van Buren, American Journalist (1918-  )
If not bliss, ignorance can at least be fun.
Carter Burwell, American Composer (1955-  )
If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.
Leo Buscaglia, American Author (1924-1998)
The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.
Samuel Butler, British Poet (1835-1902)
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.
John Calvin, French Theologian (1509-1564)
The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.
Albert Camus, French Philosopher (1913-1960)
I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
Thomas Carlyle, Scottish Philosopher (1795-1881)
I will not expose the ignorance of the faculty.
Nancy Cartwright, American Actress (1957-  )
Gross ignorance is 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance.
Bennett Cerf, American Journalist (1898-1971)
Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.
William Ellery Channing, American Writer (1780-1842)
We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.
William Ellery Channing, American Writer (1780-1842)
Ignorance is the mother of admiration.
George Chapman, English Poet
The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there it is.
Winston Churchill, English Statesman (1874-1965)
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
Winston Churchill, English Statesman (1874-1965)
 
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