Quotes by Ignorance We are hurtling back into a Soviet abyss, into an information vacuum that spells death from our own ignorance. All we have left is the internet, where information is still freely available. For the rest, if you want to go on working as a journalist, it's total servility to Putin. Otherwise, it can be death, the bullet, poison, or trial -whatever our special services, Putin's guard dogs, see fit. Anna Politkovskaya ignorance special dog Ignorance is death. A closed mind is a catafalque. Anna Quindlen closed-mind ignorance mind But while ignorance can make you insensitive, familiarity can also numb. Entering the second half-century of an information age, our cumulative knowledge has changed the level of what appalls, what stuns, what shocks. Anna Quindlen perception ignorance age Only ignorance! only ignorance! how can you talk about only ignorance? Don't you know that it is the worst thing in the world, next to wickedness? -- and which does the most mischief heaven only knows. If people can say, `Oh! I did not know, I did not mean any harm,' they think it is all right. Anna Sewell ignorance motivational mean Well, but you affirm that virtue is only elicited by temptation; - and you think that a woman cannot be too little exposed to temptation, or too little acquainted with vice, or anything connected therewith - It must be, either, that you think she is essentially so vicious, or so feeble-minded that she cannot withstand temptation, - and though she may be pure and innocent as long as she is kept in ignorance and restraint, yet, being destitute of real virtue, to teach her how to sin is at once to make her a sinner. Anne Bronte ignorance real thinking Love is so much bigger than our ignorance. Anne Lamott bigger ignorance love-is 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 ignorance self hair Contemporary movies just drive me crazy. The violence and the sentimentality and the spiritual materialism and Theism and the incredible indulgence in ignorance is so claustrophobic. Anne Waldman crazy ignorance spiritual One of the unspoken themes that I'm grappling with in Day of Honey is the relationship between violence and cosmopolitanism. It's one thing to comprehend violence as an outgrowth of ignorance, poverty, and backwardness. It's another matter entirely to confront incredible atrocities in a country with a rich civic and intellectual life. Annia Ciezadlo ignorance intellectual country Knowledge is essential to conquest; only according to our ignorance are we helpless. Thought creates character. Character can dominate conditions. Will creates circumstances and environment. Annie Besant essentials ignorance character Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd. Annie Besant denial ignorance believe There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept. Ansel Adams photography ignorance art Reviewers do not read books with much care . . . their profession is more given to stupidity and malice and literary ignorance even than the profession of novelist. Anthony Burgess stupidity ignorance book Ignorance and poverty are the best condiments for the great feast of the world, but the inexperienced and poor are never invited to it. Anthony Burgess poverty ignorance world Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance. Anthony de Mello spirituality awareness ignorance The spiritual quest is a journey without distance. You travel from where you are right now To where you have always been. From ignorance to recognition. Anthony de Mello distance ignorance spiritual Can one be fully human without experiencing tragedy? The only tragedy there is in the world is ignorance; all evil comes from that. Anthony de Mello tragedy ignorance evil The seeker says, "I do not know." That takes honesty. The master says, "I do not know." That takes a mystic's mind that knows things through non-knowing. The disciple says, "I know." That takes ignorance, in the form of borrowed knowledge. Anthony de Mello honesty ignorance spiritual I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation. Anthony Hope poetry ignorance wish We're all caught up in circumstances, and we're all good and evil. When you're really hungry, for instance, you'll do anything to survive. I think the most evil thing - well, maybe that's too strong - but certainly a very evil thing is judgment, the sin of ignorance. Anthony Hopkins strong ignorance thinking «345678910111213»
