Quotes by Ignorance The history of medicine proves that in so far as man seeks to know himself and face his whole nature, he has become free from bewildered fear, despondent shame, or arrant hypocrisy. As long as sex is dealt with in the current confusion of ignorance and sophistication, denial and indulgence, suppression and stimulation, punishment and exploitation, secrecy and display, it will be associated with a duplicity and indecency that lead neither to intellectual honesty nor human dignity. Alfred Kinsey honesty ignorance sex Blind and naked ignorance delivers brawling judgments, unashamed, on all things all day long Alfred Lord Tennyson naked ignorance long The hope that poverty and ignorance may gradually be extinguished derives indeed much support from the steady progress of the working classes during the 19th century. Alfred Marshall ignorance class philosophy Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge. Alfred North Whitehead stupidity political ignorance Every intellectual revolution which has ever stirred humanity into greatness has been a passionate protest against inert ideas. Then, alas, with pathetic ignorance of human psychology, it has proceeded by some educational scheme to bind humanity afresh with inert ideas of its own fashioning. Alfred North Whitehead greatness educational ignorance It is astonishing what you can do when you have a lot of energy, ambition and plenty of ignorance. Alfred P. Sloan energy ignorance ambition There is no greater wealth than wisdom, no greater poverty than ignorance; no greater heritage than culture and no greater support than consultation. Ali ibn Abi Talib wealth-of-knowledge support ignorance There is no capital more useful than intellect and wisdom, and there is no indigence more injurious than ignorance and unawareness. Ali ibn Abi Talib unawareness intellect ignorance Had there not been five bad qualities, all the people would have been righteous. Contentment with ignorance; love for worldly life; miserliness inspite of much wealth; ostentation in (good) deeds; and pride in their own intelligence. Ali ibn Abi Talib islamic ignorance wisdom No wealth like education and no poverty like ignorance Ali ibn Abi Talib wealth poverty ignorance The first thing Islam does is to destroy the self image of the believers. It convinces them that without Islam they are worthless creatures only fit for hellfire. It tells them that their culture is jahelyyah (ignorance) and their ancestral religion was taaghoti (satanic). They are made to despise their identity and selfhood and seek their glory in their submission to Islam and slavery to its deity who was Muhammad's own alter ego. Ali Sina ego ignorance self ... overconfidence in one's own ability is the root of much evil. Vanity, egoism, is the deadliest of all characteristics. This vanity, combined with extreme ignorance of conditions the knowledge of which is the very A B C of business and of life, produces more shipwrecks and heartaches than any other part of our mental make-up. Alice Foote MacDougall ignorance business roots It was easy to present figures demonstrating the contrast between lead work in the United States under conditions of neglect and ignorance, and comparable work in England and Germany, under intelligent control. Alice Hamilton united-states intelligent ignorance It is not true that evil, destructiveness , and perversion inevitably form part of human existence, no matter how often this is maintained. But it is true that we are daily producing more evil and, with it, an ocean of suffering for millions that is absolutely avoidable. When one day the ignorance arising from childhood repression is eliminated and humanity has awakened, an end can be put to this production of evil. Alice Miller ocean ignorance evil Child abuse damages a person for life and that damage is in no way diminished by the ignorance of the perpetrator. It is only with the uncovering of the complete truth as it affects all those involved that a genuinely viable solution can be found to the dangers of child abuse. Alice Miller abuse ignorance children But if we keep denying that there are problems with some male immigrants, then we will just drive the people into the arms of the right-wing populists. Without the ignorance or the trivialization on the part of all the political parties, there would be no Pegida or Alternative for Germany. Alice Schwarzer party ignorance wings I dont think ignorance is a way that you gain distance on something. Alice Sebold distance ignorance thinking Ignorance, arrogance, and racism have bloomed as Superior Knowledge in all too many universities. Alice Walker ignorance racism education I'm trying to learn something about making a balance between the inner life and the outer life. I wouldn't write if I didn't need to be making those discoveries, if I didn't feel the perpetual ignorance of being a human being. Alison Hawthorne Deming ignorance writing discovery I'm always doing poems from a place of not-knowing, a place of ignorance in a way. Alison Hawthorne Deming not-knowing ignorance knowing «1234567891011»