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The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.
- John F. Kennedy
Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.
- Laurence J. Peter
Is it ignorance or apathy?
Hey, I don't know and I don't care.
- Jimmy Buffett
By giving us the opinions of the uneducated,
journalism keeps us in touch
with the ignorance of the community.
- Oscar Wilde
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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence;
then success is sure.
- Mark Twain
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
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.
Ignorance and bungling with love
are better than wisdom and skill without.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
Uncertainty that comes from knowledge
(knowing what you don't know)
is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.
- Isaac Asimov
The greater our knowledge increases
the more our ignorance unfolds.
- John F. Kennedy
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -
it is the illusion of knowledge.
- Daniel J. Boorstin
True friendship can afford true knowledge.
It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
- Henry David Thoreau
At the root of all the harm we cause is ignorance.
- Pema Chodron
The truth is incontrovertible,
malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it,
but in the end; there it is.
- Winston Churchill
Where ignorance is our master,
there is no possibility of real peace.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
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
Truth is by nature self-evident.
As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance
that surround it, it shines clear.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
- Socrates
Misunderstanding arising from ignorance breeds fear,
and fear remains the greatest enemy of peace.
- Lester B. Pearson
Envy comes from people's ignorance of,
or lack of belief in, their own gifts.
- Jean Vanier
Be - don't try to become.
Being is enlightenment, becoming is ignorance.
- Osho
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
- Titus Livius
Dignity is a mask we wear to hide our ignorance.
- Elbert Hubbard
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
- Confucius
Beware of false knowledge;
it is more dangerous than ignorance.
- George Bernard Shaw
Where there is charity and wisdom,
there is neither fear nor ignorance.
- St. Francis of Assisi
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
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
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
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
Blinding ignorance does mislead us.
Oh Wretched mortals, open your eyes!
- Leonardo da Vinci
This report, by its very length, defends itself
against the risk of being read.
- Winston Churchill
The best argument against democracy is
a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
- Winston Churchill
The length of this document defends it well
against the risk of its being read.
- Winston Churchill
If God listened to the prayers of men,
all men would quickly have perished:
for they are forever praying for evil against one another.
- Epicurus
I once had a rose named after me
and I was very flattered.
But I was not pleased to read
the description in the catalogue:
no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White
The moment we want to believe something,
we suddenly see all the arguments for it,
and become blind to the arguments against it.
- George Bernard Shaw
He is a man of courage who does not run away,
but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
- Socrates
The greatest weapon against stress
is our ability to choose one thought over another.
- William James
Action is our greatest weapon against fear.
Left to molder, fear grows upon itself,
but in the face of action,
fear is left in the dust.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A sin is anything you do which goes against yourself
- don Miguel Ruiz
I hope that no American will waste his franchise
and throw away his vote
by voting either for me or against me solely
on account of my religious affiliation. It is not relevant.
- John F. Kennedy
Don't be against anything -
e.g. don't be against war, be FOR peace
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We are strange beings, we seem
to go free, but we go in chains -
chains of training, custom, convention,
association, environment -
in a word, Circumstance -
and against these bonds
the strongest of us struggle in vain.
- Mark Twain
I have sworn upon the altar of God,
eternal hostility against every form of tyranny
over the mind of man.
- Thomas Jefferson
He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it
as he who helps to perpetrate it.
He who accepts evil without protesting against it
is really cooperating with it.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.
- Mark Twain
Your success and happiness lies in you.
Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you
shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
- Helen Keller
The strongest reason for the people
to retain the right to keep and bear arms is,
as a last resort, to protect themselves
against tyranny in government.
- Thomas Jefferson
People who work together will win,
whether it be against complex football defenses,
or the problems of modern society.
- Vince Lombardi
Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.
- Thomas Jefferson
When our thoughts - which bring actions -
are filled with hate against anyone, Negro or white,
we are in a living hell.
That is as real as hell will ever be.
- George Washington Carver
It is difficult for the common good to prevail
against the intense concentration
of those who have a special interest,
especially if the decisions are made behind locked doors.
- Jimmy Carter
One can flow harmoniously with the River -
or one can struggle fearfully against the River -
and the River just flows.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A Bill of Rights is what the people are
entitled to against every government,
and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.
- Thomas Jefferson
How is it that one rails against that
which is nearly a certainty?
- Mary Anne Radmacher
It is against everything we stand for to take a human life.
Making an exception to that code is a bleak thing.
- Sam, from Twilight saga by Stephenie Meyer
The great defense against the air menace
is to attack the enemy's aircraft
as near as possible to their point of departure.
- Winston Churchill
Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.
- Winston Churchill
Resolve to keep happy, and your joy
and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
- Helen Keller
Your task is not to seek for love,
but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself
that you have built against it.
- A Course In Miracles (commonly misattributed to Rumi)
If we are to teach real peace in this world,
and if we are to carry on a real war against war,
we shall have to begin with the children.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Life is change. Without change, there is no life.
Why then do we so fight against change?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There are always two forces warring against each other within us.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Never do anything against conscience
even if the state demands it.
- Albert Einstein
Most unhappiness comes from resisting life.
Occasionally, you have such a strong commitment
to changing the world order that it is worth
struggling against the flow of life.
But don't live your life as if each minor happening
were a matter of life and death.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Difficulties show men what they are.
In case of any difficulty,
remember that God has pitted you
against a rough antagonist
that you may be a conqueror,
and this cannot be without toil.
- Epictetus
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and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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