#ignorance

It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile. ↗

— Sting

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In the scattered settlements of this Diocese, schools and Churches are of necessity for many years few in number, and multitudes of both sexes are growing up in great ignorance. ↗

— John Strachan

#churches #diocese #few #great #growing

To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance. ↗

— Jeremy Taylor

#ignorance #learning #proud

Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance. ↗

— Will Durant

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Why should we, however, in economics, have to plead ignorance of the sort of facts on which, in the case of a physical theory, a scientist would certainly be expected to give precise information? ↗

— Friedrich August von Hayek

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Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance. ↗

— Arnold H. Glasow

#ignorance #lengthened #shadow

Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has read perhaps three and you give me a very dangerous enemy indeed. ↗

— Anne Rice

#bibliophiles #book-lovers #willful-ignorance #zealotry #enemy

That which we manifest is before us; we are the creators of our own destiny. Be it through intention or ignorance, our successes and our failures have been brought on by none other than ourselves. ↗

— Garth Stein

#ignorance #success

Scientists rightly resist invoking the supernatural in scientific explanations for fear of committing a god-of-the-gaps fallacy (the fallacy of using God as a stop-gap for ignorance). Yet without some restriction on the use of chance, scientists are in danger of committing a logically equivalent fallacy-one we may call the “chance-of-the-gaps fallacy.” Chance, like God, can become a stop-gap for ignorance. ↗

— William A. Dembski

#chance #coincidence #darwinism #evolution #god-of-the-gaps

The evil that is in the world almost always comes from ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding. ↗

— Albert Camus

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