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In a democracy, we have always had to worry about the ignorance of the uneducated. Today we have to worry about the ignorance of people with college degrees. -- Thomas Sowell
Envy comes from people's ignorance of, or lack of belief in, their own gifts. -- Jean Vanier
I despise people who revel in the ignorance of not being able to play their instrument. -- Robert Smith
My family and I held no hatred for those people because we realized they were victims of their own ignorance. -- Ryan White
Larry Summers, I think, he had a long history of arrogance and relative ignorance about poor people's culture and working people's culture and so forth. -- Cornel West
People have said, 'Let's build bridges,' and frankly, I want to do more than that. I would like break to the walls of ignorance between East and West. -- Al-Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani
A lot of my friends are gay, and certainly I have no tolerance for anyone who has any sort of ignorance or restriction on people's lives or love lives. -- Sasha Roiz
In North America, the greatest threat to the Jewish people is not the external force of antisemitism, but the internal forces of apathy, inertia and ignorance of our own heritage. -- Michael Steinhardt
Four hundred or so people lived in Knockemstiff in 1957, nearly all of them connected by blood through one godforsaken calamity or another, be it lust or necessity or just plain ignorance. -- Donald Ray Pollock
My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors. -- Maya Angelou
I do sometimes accuse people of ignorance, but that is not intended to be an insult. I'm ignorant of lots of things. Ignorance is something that can be remedied by education. -- Richard Dawkins
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
Scientific men can hardly escape the charge of ignorance with regard to the precise effect of the impact of modern science upon the mode of living of the people and upon their civilisation. -- Frederick Soddy
The Iraq War was the biggest issue for people of my generation in the West. It was also the clearest case, in my living memory, of media manipulation and the creation of a war through ignorance. -- Julian Assange
With attention deficit democracy, I am trying to wake up people to how the combination of mass ignorance, fear mongering by the government, and lying politicians is putting our entire system of government to a death spiral. -- James Bovard
Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives. -- Saint Teresa of Avila
Much of the impotence of American churches is tied to a profound ignorance and apathy about justification. Our people live in a fog of guilt. Or just as bad, they think being a better person is all God requires. -- Kevin DeYoung
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Most Muslim women know it is fear and curiosity that cause people to stare. They know it is ignorance and stereotypes that cause people to suppose that a piece of material covering the hair strips a woman of the ability to speak English, pursue a career, work a remote control. -- Randa Abdel-Fattah
The real power of the Buddha was that he had so much love. He saw people trapped in their notions of small separate self, feeling guilty or proud of that self, and he offered revolutionary teachings that resounded like a lion's roar, like a great rising tide, helping people to wake up and break free from the prison of ignorance. -- Nhat Hanh
I never had that feeling that I had to carry the weight of somebody's ignorance around with me. And that was true for racists who wanted to use the 'n' word when talking about me or about my people, or the stupidity of people who really wanted to belittle other folks because they weren't pretty or they weren't rich or they weren't clever. -- Maya Angelou
Ignorance binds people tighter than culture. -- Raheel Farooq
People are so skillful in their ignorance! -- Paramahansa Yogananda
The Devil's success is contingent upon people's ignorance. -- Benny Hinn
If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people happy? -- Thomas Jefferson
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The enemies of a people are those who keep them in ignorance. -- Thomas Sankara
Politics and church are the same. They keep the people in ignorance. -- Bob Marley
Ignorance allowed politicians to fool people and bad administrators to be re-elected. -- Malala Yousafzai
The problem that is to solve urgently is the ignorance of the people. -- Khem Veasna
If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy people in the world? -- Stephen Fry
Ignorance breeds fear. Tell people the truth. Trust them to keep their heads. -- Olivia Manning
Passionate people invariably deny their anger, and cowards often boast their ignorance of fear. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Ignorance is ultimately the worst enemy of a people who want to be free. -- Jonathan Hennessey
The only enemy is ignorance. Peace, people. Let's get rid of all this nuclear testing. -- Jon Bon Jovi
The Ignorance the people live in leads them to commit mistakes against their own happiness -- Simon Bolivar
The first reason for people's slavery is our ignorance, and above all, our ignorance of ourselves. -- G. I. Gurdjieff
its not a good idea to argue with ignorant people but sometime ignorance can't be ignored -- Adnan Safi
C++ is a language strongly optimized for liars and people who go by guesswork and ignorance. -- Erik Naggum
He was ignorant, but a lot of people mistook ignorance for stupidity, and knowingness for intelligence. -- Michael Lewis
I want to fight poverty and ignorance and give opportunity to those people who are locked out. -- Russell Simmons
It is bad enough that people are dying of AIDS, but no one should die of ignorance. -- Elizabeth Taylor
People often find comfort in ignorance of illusions, but rarely find solace in the truth of reality. -- Lionel Suggs
preach, my dear Sir, a crusade against ignorance; establish & improve the law for educating the common people. -- Thomas Jefferson
People are supposed to fear the unknown, but ignorance is bliss when knowledge is so damn frightening. -- Laurell K. Hamilton
Don't punish yourselves for people's ignorant reactions to what we all are. Don't let ignorance win. Let love. -- Nancy Garden
The only people who ever prize purity of ignorance are those who profit from a monopoly on knowledge. -- Orson Scott Card
I suspect people would be in for a real shock if they knew the depths of [Obama's] historical ignorance. -- Charles Foster Johnson
It ain't ignorance that causes all the trouble in this world. It's the things people know that ain't so. -- Edwin Armstrong
It is only out of ignorance that people are cruel, because they really don't think it will come back. -- Maya Angelou
The noblest people are those despising wealth , learning , pleasure and life ; esteeming above them poverty , ignorance , hardship and death . -- Diogenes
Bridges take people across rivers. Leaders take people across ignorance. With a leader, the destination of a journey is sure. -- Israelmore Ayivor
The great mass of people judge well of things, for they are in natural ignorance, which is man's true state. -- Blaise Pascal
Uncertainty and fear and ignorance about immigrants, about people who are different, has a history as old as our Nation. -- Luis Gutierrez
Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US. -- Frederick Douglass
When people do not ignore what they should ignore, but ignore what they should not ignore, this is known as ignorance. -- Zhuangzi
All suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their own happiness or satisfaction -- Dalai Lama
Death people who are still alive at this hour, must resurrect and ascend to the intellectual heaven where there is no ignorance. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
Death people who are still alive at this hour, must resurrect and ascend to the intellectual heaven where there is no ignorance. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
People's ignorance really pisses me off. Stupidity is when you can't help it -ignorance is when you choose not to understand something. -- Sarah McLachlan
Half of disbelief in Allah in the world is caused by people who make religion look ugly due to their bad conduct and ignorance -- Al-Ghazali
Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives. -- James Madison
Remember that you are a teacher, you are helping people, making them feel safer, taking them from fear to love, from ignorance to knowledge. -- Stuart Wilde
All you've got to do is own up to your ignorance honestly, and you'll find people who are eager to fill your head with information. -- Walt Disney
People talk about revelation, and say it has ceased; but what ignorance it bespeaks, when man knows not the least thing on earth without revelation. -- Elias Hicks
It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it; and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it not. -- Jeremy Taylor
Maybe the same instruments and tools that have been used to keep people in slavery and ignorance could potentially be used to liberate and awaken them. -- Daniel Pinchbeck
Atheism, which people have tried to for hundreds of years as 'the ways of reason and science,' is proving to be mere irrationality and ignorance. -- Harun Yahya
People cheat when they are afraid. When there is no cost to being wrong or confessing ignorance, there is no reason to cheat or fake comprehension. -- Leah Hager Cohen
It's a phony issue. To pretend the death penalty is going to end crime in the United States is to fool people, to promote public ignorance. -- Rudy Giuliani
The main factor that makes leadership potentials to become abused often is ignorance. Many people can merely spell their names in alphabets, but cannot pronounce their brands! -- Israelmore Ayivor
People are subject to moods, to temptations and fears, lethargy and aberration and ignorance, and the staunchest qualities shift under the stresses and strains of daily life. -- Ilka Chase
Even if they're functioning out of ignorance, they are still participating and must be suppressed. In China, even one million people can be considered a small sum. -- Deng Xiaoping
The clergy, no less than the capitalist class, lives on the backs of the people, profits from the degradation, the ignorance and the oppression of the people. -- Rosa Luxemburg
Ignorance deprives people of freedom because they do not know what alternatives there are. It is impossible to choose to do what one has never "heard of." -- Ralph Barton Perry
When I forgive other people, I let them go, I free them from my ignorance. And as soon as I do, I feel lighter, brighter and better. -- Maya Angelou
It is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice. For they cannot live in any country where virtue and knowledge prevail. -- Samuel Adams
People used to say, "Ignorance is no excuse." Today, ignorance is no problem. After all, you have "a right to your own opinion" - and self-esteem to boot. -- Thomas Sowell
Most books are about aspects of human knowledge - Few people write books about human ignorance, despite the fact that there would be much more to write about -- Piero Scaruffi
If ignorance were enough to make things not exist, the world would be more like a lot of people think it is. But it's not. And it's not. -- William Gibson
Science is a philosophy of discovery; intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance... Something fundamamental is going on in people's minds when they confront things they don't understnd. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
As coercive monopolies that spend other people's money taken by force, governments are uniquely unqualified to solve problems. They are riddled by ignorance, perverse incentives, incompetence and self-serving. -- John Stossel
I could never accept findings based almost exclusively on mathematics. It ain't ignorance that causes all the trouble in this world. It's the things people know that ain't so. -- Edwin Howard Armstrong
Even the best-natured people, if uninstructed, are always blind and uncertain. We must take pains to instruct ourselves so that ignorance makes us neither too timid nor too bold. -- Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de ...
As people's opportunities to succumb to confirmation bias increases online - only seeking out information that confirms their prejudices - ignorance, extremism and close-mindedness have continued to rise unabated. -- Maajid Nawaz

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