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I hate the idea of sheltering kids from challenging books. It's just another form of conservative fear that promotes ignorance more than anything else.
Adam Rapp
Ignorance
Hate
Conservative
Fear
Else
Books
Kids
More
More Than Anything
Idea
Another
Sheltering
Than
Just
Form
Anything
Anything Else
Challenging
Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.
Adlai Stevenson I
Ignorance
Stubborn
Prejudice
Hard
I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
Adlai Stevenson I
Forgiveness
Ignorance
Believe
Sin
Redemption
The hope that poverty and ignorance may gradually be extinguished, derives indeed much support from the steady progress of the working classes during the nineteenth century.
Alfred Marshall
Hope
Ignorance
Progress
Poverty
Nineteenth
Nineteenth Century
Indeed
Classes
Steady
Steady Progress
Support
Gradually
May
Century
Much
Working
Working Classes
Derives
Extinguished
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
Work
Ignorance
Control
Neglect
States
Easy
Lead
Between
Demonstrating
Conditions
Germany
Intelligent
Contrast
England
Figures
Comparable
United
United States
Present
To act like everyone has had the same access to share their funny is willful ignorance at its best - and just a good ol' fashioned front at its truth.
Amanda Seales
Funny
Truth
Best
Good
Ignorance
Everyone
Willful
Had
Share
Like
Access
Same
Front
Just
Act
Saying we should scrap drones shows an irresponsible and nonsensical ignorance of the way we protect our country. It lets down our servicemen and servicewomen fighting terrorists who want to harm us.
Amber Rudd
Saying
Ignorance
Country
Fighting
Down
Our
Way
Drones
Protect
Terrorists
Nonsensical
Scrap
Irresponsible
Want
Us
Should
Who
Shows
Lets
Servicemen
Harm
The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.
Ambrose Bierce
Knowledge
Ignorance
Give
Classify
Small
Small Part
Part
Name
Arrange
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole France
Ignorance
Happy
Some
Except
Price
Never
Person
It is not enough to be well-intentioned; one must strive to put those intentions into action in a capable way. One must consider the effect his actions will have on others. Looked at like this, to persist in ignorance is itself dishonorable.
Andrew Cohen
Ignorance
Will
Action
Enough
Others
Consider
Way
Those
Strive
Must
Put
Like
Looked
Well-Intentioned
His
Effect
Itself
Persist
Intentions
Dishonorable
Capable
Actions
To remove ignorance is an important branch of benevolence.
Ann Plato
Ignorance
Remove
Important
Benevolence
Branch
Imagine: I got patent rights to the only machine in the world to make low-cost sanitary napkins - a hot-cake product. Anyone with an MBA would immediately accumulate the maximum money. But I did not want to. Why? Because from childhood, I know no human being died because of poverty - everything happens because of ignorance.
Arunachalam Muruganantham
Ignorance
Rights
Human Being
World
Money
Poverty
Everything
Machine
Immediately
Would
Only
Know
Make
Because
Got
Accumulate
Patent
Did
Died
Maximum
Childhood
Human
Being
Want
Anyone
Happens
Low-Cost
Product
Sanitary
Why
Imagine
Our great struggle in medicine these days is not just with ignorance and uncertainty. It's also with complexity: how much you have to make sure you have in your head and think about. There are a thousand ways things can go wrong.
Atul Gawande
Great
You
Ignorance
Struggle
Think
Medicine
Our
Ways
Complexity
Thousand
About
Uncertainty
Head
Wrong
Days
Also
Make
Sure
How
How Much
Go
Just
Much
Your
Things
Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.
Baltasar Gracian
Fashion
Knowledge
Wise
Ignorance
Affect
Where
Even
There are many causes why a people politically ignorant cannot be roused to action. Perfect political ignorance must be accompanied by indifference to the general interests of society, and thus one of the most powerful motives which can act on the human mind is totally destroyed.
Benjamin Robbins Curtis
Ignorance
People
Political
Mind
Action
Society
Destroyed
Must
Totally
Indifference
General
Perfect
Thus
Powerful
Most
Most Powerful
Causes
Accompanied
Motives
Politically
Human
Cannot
Which
Interests
Act
Ignorant
Human Mind
Many
Why
And capital punishment, however ineffective it may be and through whatever ignorance it may be resorted to, is a strictly defensive act, - at least in theory.
Benjamin Tucker
Ignorance
Whatever
Defensive
Strictly
Punishment
Through
Ineffective
Least
However
May
Capital
Capital Punishment
Act
Theory
Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?
Bill Watterson
Time
Ignorance
Learning
Waste Time
Instantaneous
Waste
Why
As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.
Blaise Pascal
Death
Ignorance
Be Happy
Happy
Fight
Men
Think
Able
Misery
Taken
Heads
Order
Against
Them
The level of ignorance is declining, and the ability to accumulate data and manipulate it for various ends is increasing.
Bruce Sterling
Ignorance
Increasing
Ability
Data
Various
Accumulate
Ends
Manipulate
Declining
Level
One column of truth cannot hold an institution of ideas from falling into ignorance. It is wiser that a person of prudence and purpose save his strength for battles that can be won.
Bryant H. McGill
Truth
Strength
Ignorance
Battles
Purpose
Column
Wiser
Institution
Ideas
Falling
His
Won
Person
Prudence
Hold
Cannot
Save
Racism exists, but it is far less rampant than ignorance, and ignorance can be cured through experience.
Candace Owens
Ignorance
Experience
Racism
Rampant
Through
Exists
Cured
Than
Far
Far Less
Less
I don't think you can ever regain your ignorance.
Carla Bley
You
Ignorance
Think
Regain
Your
Ever
Maybe you don't know how to do something at work. Instead of asking the boss or seeking someone as a mentor, you might not want to show them your ignorance. So, you're depriving yourself of this learning and mentorship. All of these ways are ways that a fixed mindset will hold you back.
Carol S. Dweck
Work
You
Ignorance
Learning
Yourself
Will
Back
Mindset
Ways
Seeking
Someone
Something
Boss
Mentor
Instead
Know
How
Fixed
Maybe
Want
Hold
Them
Might
Depriving
Asking
Your
Show
I happen to have worked with male directors who don't understand women at all. Not at all. I'm flabbergasted by their ignorance.
Catherine McCormack
Ignorance
Women
Directors
Understand
Male
Happen
Worked
Who
We are all dwellers on this one small earth; we live one life, die one death; we have the same difficulties to contend with; we ought in common to fight the foes of ignorance and wrong.
Charles Glover Barkla
Life
Death
Ignorance
Fight
Live
Difficulties
Ought
Earth
Foes
Small
Wrong
Contend
Die
Same
Common
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Ignorance
Fear
Our
Proportion
Them
Things
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