#ignorance

The truth is that our race survived ignorance; it is our scientific genius that will do us in. ↗

— Stephen Vizinczey

#ignorance #our #race #scientific #survived

It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous. ↗

— Charles Dudley Warner

#barbarous #call #comprehend #does #each

Acquaint yourself with your own ignorance. ↗

— Isaac Watts

#ignorance #own #your #yourself

There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life. ↗

— Mary Wortley

#happiness #hopes #ignorance #invaluable #life

Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance. ↗

— Graham Greene

#egotism #either #else #evil #happy

Prejudice is the child of ignorance. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#ignorance #prejudice

People talk about revelation, and say it has ceased; but what ignorance it bespeaks, when man knows not the least thing on earth without revelation. ↗

— Elias Hicks

#bespeaks #ceased #earth #ignorance #knows

I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#down #else #i #ignorance #life

Where ignorance is bliss it's foolish to borrow your neighbor's newspaper. ↗

— Kin Hubbard

#borrow #foolish #ignorance #ignorance is bliss #neighbor