#ignorance

In the days when hyenas of hate suckle the babes of men, and jackals of hypocrisy pimp their mothers’ broken hearts, may children not look to demons of ignorance for hope. ↗

— Aberjhani

#election-year-politics #hate-crimes #hatred #humanity #hypocrisy

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. ↗

— Will Durant

#discovery #ignorance #our #own #progressive

The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about. ↗

— Wayne Dyer

#anything #form #highest #highest form #ignorance

The average man has a carefully cultivated ignorance about household matters - from what to do with the crumbs to the grocer's telephone number - a sort of cheerful inefficiency which protects him. ↗

— Crystal Eastman

#average #average man #carefully #cheerful #crumbs

The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen of a sister author; and to her treatment of the subject I will only add, in justice to men, that though to the larger and more trifling part of the sex, imbecility in females is a great enhancement of their personal charms, there is a portion of them too reasonable and too well informed themselves to desire anything more in woman than ignorance. ↗

— Jane Austen

#clichés #desirability #disdain #education #empowerment

I would point out that the cultural advance of these people has been suppressed in the past and continues to be suppressed in the present by policies designed to keep them in ignorance. ↗

— Hideki Tojo

#been #continues #cultural #designed #i

Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value. ↗

— Jean de La Fontaine

#learning #talk #value #will

Acquaint yourself with your own ignorance. ↗

— Isaac Watts

#ignorance #own #your #yourself

The truth. Men will blind themselves with hot irons, rather than face it. ↗

— David Gemmell

#ignorance #truth #men

The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge. ↗