#ignorance

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When all this is over, people will try to blame the Germans alone, and the Germans will try to blame the Nazis alone, and the Nazis will try to blame Hitler alone. They will make him bear the sins of the world. But it's not true. You suspected what was happening, and so did I. It was already too late over a year ago. I caused a reporter to lose his job because you told me to. He was deported. The day I did that I made my little contribution to civilization, the only one that matters.


Iain Pears


#civilization #cowardice #denunciation #deportation #evil

I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever.


Oscar Wilde


#ignorance #education

Incompetence in mathematics is no proof of brilliance. You must be ignorant of science and geography as well. That is the gold standard of American education.


Bauvard


#funny #humor #ignorance #math #science

Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence.


Richard Dawkins


#education #enlighten #evidence #ignorance #knowledge

People are afraid of being more ignorant than their children―especially, apparantly, their daughters.


Daniel C. Dennett


#ignorance #education

There’s faith that knows itself as faith, Proyas, and there’s faith that confuses itself for knowledge. The first embraces uncertainty, acknowledges the mysteriousness of the God. It begets compassion and tolerance. Who can entirely condemn when they’re not entirely certain they’re in the right? But the second, Proyas, the second embraces certainty and only pays lip service to the God’s mystery. It begets intolerance, hatred, violence.


R. Scott Bakker


#god #ignorance #intolerance #religion #faith

Nothing limits intelligence more than ignorance; nothing fosters ignorance more than one's own opinions; nothing strengthens opinions more than refusing to look at reality.


Sheri S. Tepper


#ignorance #intelligence #narrow-mindedness #opinions #reality

The moment a person feels he has nothing left to learn is the moment life prepares to hit him hard enough to correct such ignorance.


Richelle E. Goodrich


#ignorance #intelligence #knowledge #learning #ongoing-education

Ever since her conversion [Barbara] had met sophisticated women who, on the subject of Catholicism, sneered like French village atheists, and expected to be excused from normal good manners, let alone intelligence, on this one subject.


Muriel Spark


#ignorance #intolerance #intelligence

His progress through life was hampered by his tremendous sense of his own ignorance, a disability which affects all too few.


Terry Pratchett


#life