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Dependence begets subservience and venality,
suffocates the germ of virtue,
and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
- Thomas Jefferson
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge:
it is those who know little, and not those who know much,
who so positively assert that this or that problem
will never be solved by science.
- Charles Darwin
Honor bespeaks worth. Confidence begets trust.
Service brings satisfaction.
Cooperation proves the quality of leadership.
- James Cash Penney
Is it ignorance or apathy?
Hey, I don't know and I don't care.
- Jimmy Buffett
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Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.
- Laurence J. Peter
By giving us the opinions of the uneducated,
journalism keeps us in touch
with the ignorance of the community.
- Oscar Wilde
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence;
then success is sure.
- Mark Twain
Fear always springs from ignorance.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous
than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.
- John F. Kennedy
Where there is charity and wisdom,
there is neither fear nor ignorance.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Envy comes from people's ignorance of,
or lack of belief in, their own gifts.
- Jean Vanier
Misunderstanding arising from ignorance breeds fear,
and fear remains the greatest enemy of peace.
- Lester B. Pearson
Dignity is a mask we wear to hide our ignorance.
- Elbert Hubbard
Ignorance is preferable to error,
and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing
than he who believes what is wrong.
- Thomas Jefferson
Be - don't try to become.
Being is enlightenment, becoming is ignorance.
- Osho
Ignorance and bungling with love
are better than wisdom and skill without.
- Henry David Thoreau
Truth is by nature self-evident.
As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance
that surround it, it shines clear.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -
it is the illusion of knowledge.
- Daniel J. Boorstin
Uncertainty that comes from knowledge
(knowing what you don't know)
is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.
- Isaac Asimov
At the root of all the harm we cause is ignorance.
- Pema Chodron
Beware of false knowledge;
it is more dangerous than ignorance.
- George Bernard Shaw
True friendship can afford true knowledge.
It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
- Henry David Thoreau
Where ignorance is our master,
there is no possibility of real peace.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
The truth is incontrovertible,
malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it,
but in the end; there it is.
- Winston Churchill
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
- Titus Livius
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
- Confucius
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
- Socrates
Socialism is a philosophy of failure,
the creed of ignorance,
and the gospel of envy,
its inherent virtue is
the equal sharing of misery.
- Winston Churchill
The greater our knowledge increases
the more our ignorance unfolds.
- John F. Kennedy
Every optimist moves along with progress and hastens it,
while every pessimist would keep the worlds at a standstill.
The consequence of pessimism in the life of a nation
is the same as in the life of the individual.
Pessimism kills the instinct that
urges men to struggle against poverty,
ignorance and crime, and dries up
all the fountains of joy in the world.
- Helen Keller
If the children are untaught,
their ignorance and vices will in future life
cost us much dearer in their consequences
than it would have done in their
correction by a good education.
- Thomas Jefferson
All the Buddhas of all the ages have been
telling you a very simple fact:
Be - don't try to become.
Within these two words, be and becoming,
your whole life is contained.
Being is enlightenment, becoming is ignorance.
- Osho
There comes a time in every man's education
when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance,
that imitation is suicide,
that he must take himself for better or for worse as his portion.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is an organic whole. The basic problems of the people -
poverty, ignorance, disease and civic inertia - interlock.
To address one problem, we must address all.
Hence our emphasis on an integrated program
of livelihood, education, health and self-government.
- Jimmy Yen
Blinding ignorance does mislead us.
Oh Wretched mortals, open your eyes!
- Leonardo da Vinci
Science may have found a cure for most evils;
but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -
the apathy of human beings.
- Helen Keller
Apathy, indifference, not caring...
It may sound insensitive for me to say, "I don't care,"
but ask first to what I am indifferent.
I choose to be caring, compassionate
and kind toward all people,
and I also choose to be indifferent to gossip,
petty complaints, and idle chatter.
About those, I just don't care.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We may have found a cure for most evils;
but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all,
the apathy of human beings.
- Helen Keller
Apathy is a sort of living oblivion.
- Horace Greeley
The price of apathy towards public affairs
is to be ruled by evil men.
- Plato
Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm.
- Arnold J. Toynbee
There can be no transforming of darkness into light
and of apathy into movement without emotion.
- Carl Jung
One man's "magic" is another man's engineering.
"Supernatural" is a null word.
- Robert A. Heinlein
Science is a wonderful thing
if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
- Albert Einstein
The man of science is a poor philosopher.
- Albert Einstein
Science without religion is lame,
religion without science is blind.
- Albert Einstein
Most of the fundamental ideas of science
are essentially simple,
and may, as a rule, be expressed
in a language comprehensible to everyone.
- Albert Einstein
The grand aim of all science is to cover
the greatest number of empirical facts
by logical deduction from
the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
- Albert Einstein
Most people say that is it is the intellect
which makes a great scientist.
They are wrong: it is character.
- Albert Einstein
"Uncertainty" is NOT "I don't know."
It is "I can't know."
"I am uncertain" does not mean "I could be certain."
- Wener Karl Heisenberg
Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction
because of the variety of factors in operation,
not because of any lack of order in nature.
- Albert Einstein
On the ordinary view of each species
having been independently created,
we gain no scientific explanation.
- Charles Darwin
God does not play dice.
- Albert Einstein
One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.
- Grace Hopper
No problem can be solved from the same level
of consciousness that created it.
- Albert Einstein
No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right;
a single experiment can prove me wrong.
- Albert Einstein
Nature never breaks her own laws.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Let us seek to invoke the wonders of science ...
explore the stars, conquer the deserts,
eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths,
and encourage the arts and commerce.
- John F. Kennedy
The Science of Mind is intensely practical
because it teaches us how to use
the Mind Principle for definite purposes,
such as helping those who are sick, impoverished, or unhappy.
- Ernest Holmes
Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Science gives man knowledge, which is power;
religion gives man wisdom, which is control.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Borrowing knowledge of reality from all sources,
taking the best from every study,
Science of Mind brings together
the highest enlightenment of the ages.
- Ernest Holmes
Science merely quantifies and documents
the relationships among miracles.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To raise new questions, new possibilities,
to regard old problems from a new angle,
requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
- Albert Einstein
Science investigates religion interprets.
Science gives man knowledge which is power
Religion gives man wisdom which is control.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The whole of science is nothing more
than a refinement of everyday thinking.
- Albert Einstein
Every known fact in natural science was divined
by the presentiment of somebody,
before it was actually verified.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Science does not know its debt to imagination.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Pause to appreciate the beauty around you.
Whether rainbow or butterfly,
mountain or tree, painting or poem -
whether crafted by nature or by a human hand -
beauty adds a magical element to life
that surpasses logic and science.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
It is the source of all true art and all science.
He to whom this emotion is a stranger,
who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe,
is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.
- Albert Einstein
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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