#ignorance

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

#always #comes #evil #good #good intentions

A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance; but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#been #book #books #cannot #devil

Until as recently as November of 1966, I had complete faith in the Warren Report. Of course, my faith in the Report was grounded in ignorance, since I had never read it. ↗

— Jim Garrison

#course #faith #grounded #had #i

When we're dealing with the people in our family - no matter how annoying or gross they may be, no matter how self-inflicted their suffering may appear, no matter how afflicted they are with ignorance, prejudice or nose hairs - we give from the deepest parts of ourselves. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#annoying #appear #dealing #deepest #family

One column of truth cannot hold an institution of ideas from falling into ignorance. It is wiser that a person of prudence and purpose save his strength for battles that can be won. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#cannot #column #falling #his #hold

It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't. ↗

— Mignon McLaughlin

#ignorance #innocence #us

I do not believe 'Newsweek' is the only catcher in the rye between democracy and ignorance, but I think we're one of them, and I don't think there are that many on the edge of that cliff. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#between #catcher #catcher in the rye #cliff #democracy

Ignorance is always afraid of change. ↗

— Jawaharlal Nehru

#always #change #ignorance

The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned. ↗

— Gerard De Nerval

#cast #evil #generations #good #ignorance

Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind. ↗

— John Tillotson

#great #ignorance #mankind #ruin #two