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We must make up our minds to be ignorant of much, if we would know anything.
John Henry Newman
Our
Minds
Must
Would
Know
Make
Make Up
Up
Anything
Much
Ignorant
One of the most predictable things in life is there will be change. You are better off if you can have a say in the change. But you are ignorant or naive if you don't think there will be change, whether you want it to or not.
Julius Erving
Life
You
Change
Better
Will
Think
Say
Better Off
Naive
Most
Off
Want
Predictable
Whether
Ignorant
Things
True science teaches, above all, to doubt and to be ignorant.
Miguel de Unamuno
Science
Doubt
Above
True
True Science
Ignorant
Teaches
Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath. Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important. Just lie down.
Natalie Goldberg
Lie
Stress
Important
Breath
Nothing
Down
State
Everything
Earth
Emergency
Forgetting
Just
Ignorant
Believes
Basically
That arrogance of youth and that kind of ignorant confidence can get you through a whole lot of things, and then life does its stuff, and you get smashed around and beaten up. You get full of doubts, and you end up making a person out of those bits and pieces.
Robyn Davidson
Life
You
Confidence
Youth
Arrogance
Those
Bits
Bits And Pieces
Out
Kind
Through
Beaten
Stuff
Smashed
Pieces
Around
Does
Making
Lot
End
Up
Person
Get
Then
Ignorant
Doubts
Full
Whole
Things
The learned man knows that he is ignorant.
Victor Hugo
Man
He
Learned
Knows
Learned Man
Ignorant
How can people be so stupid? I marvel at that. See, I think you have to work as being ignorant - and if you're gonna work at being ignorant, why not work at being informed?
Rush Limbaugh
Work
You
People
Stupid
Think
I Think
See
Marvel
How
Being
Informed
Gonna
Ignorant
Why
Why Not
There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Pride
Wish
Other
Others
Various
Know
Sort
Makes
Curiosity
May
Which
Interest
Us
Ignorant
Useful
Desire
If I had my way, I'd end all wars and poverty. We should all be more aware of what's going on in the world around us and less ignorant.
Adora Svitak
World
Poverty
Way
More
Had
Around
End
Going
Us
Should
Ignorant
Less
Wars
Aware
Today's younger generation is no worse than my own. We were just as ignorant and repulsive as they are, but nobody listened to us.
Al Capp
Today
Generation
Own
Worse
My Own
Nobody
Were
Than
Listened
Just
Repulsive
Younger
Younger Generation
Us
Ignorant
Osama bin Laden characterized his terrorist activities as 'defensive jihad,' provoked by 'debauched infidels' bent on enslaving the Muslim world. The lead industry blamed 'ignorant parents' for applying lead paint to juvenile furniture.
Albert Bandura
World
Parents
Defensive
Jihad
Furniture
Bent
Characterized
Muslim
Muslim World
Blamed
Lead
Industry
Terrorist
His
Provoked
Juvenile
Ignorant
Paint
Bin
Activities
Applying
Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How did it become so easy?
Allan Bloom
Become
Every
Easy
Only
Student
Lifetime
He
Knew
Knows
How
Labor
Did
After
Ignorant
Now
Socrates
Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously critical of it.
Allan Bloom
Political
Seriously
Cynical
Heritage
Our
Critical
About
Inspired
Students
Arrive
Lacking
Wherewithal
Either
Ignorant
Now
University
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
Nobody with an IQ higher than emergency-room temperature could ever believe that 'death panels' would be appointed to nudge the elderly toward euthanasia. Yet for idle entertainment, it's hard to beat Sarah Palin's ignorant nattering on the subject.
Carl Hiaasen
Death
Entertainment
Believe
Would
Would-Be
Temperature
Could
Higher
Beat
Toward
Nobody
Idle
Subject
Than
Elderly
Ignorant
Hard
Sarah
Euthanasia
Ever
Palin
Appointed
It is only the young and callow and ignorant that admire rashness. Think before you speak. Know your subject.
Cass Gilbert
You
Speak
Before
Young
Think
Admire
Only
Know
Subject
Ignorant
Your
So I think it's better to say something than not to say anything at all, even to an ignorant person.
Chad Hugo
Better
Think
Say
Something
Than
Person
Anything
Ignorant
Even
I think the only way to get attention is to act like a complete ignorant fool.
Chanel West Coast
Fool
Think
Complete
Way
Only
Attention
Like
Get
Act
Ignorant
We have a new lower class that's large and growing that has fallen away from a lot of the basic core behaviors and institutions that made America work, and we have a new upper class that's increasingly isolated from and ignorant of mainstream America.
Charles Murray
Work
Class
Made
Increasingly
Mainstream
New
Institutions
Isolated
Fallen
Lot
America
Upper
Behaviors
Upper-Class
Lower
Lower Class
Ignorant
Large
Growing
Away
Basic
Core
There may be some so very Ignorant, that they know not how to Pray.
Cotton Mather
Some
Know
How
Pray
Very
May
Ignorant
I came into my teens unaware that most Americans, blacks as well as whites, were ignorant of the main facts of Negro history. And so it was the facts of other histories that I found most intriguing. I fell into a U.S. history major by chance late in my second year at Fisk University.
David Levering Lewis
History
Year
Other
Late
Teens
Intriguing
Unaware
Blacks
Facts
Main
Major
Most
Fell
Well
Came
Were
Histories
American
Ignorant
Whites
Found
Second
Chance
University
MMA has the rudest, most negative, dumbest, ignorant fans in the world - but it also has the most passionate fans in the world.
Demetrious Johnson
World
Fans
Negative
Most
Also
Passionate
Dumbest
Ignorant
Some people accuse the new generation of being ignorant, maybe ignorant for the old generation, but it's a new language.
Domenico Dolce
Generation
People
Old
Language
Some People
Some
New
New Generation
Accuse
Maybe
Being
Ignorant
All the people that are so quick to say that, like, because I wear womenswear sometimes, that means I'm transitioning. People are just so ignorant and dumb sometimes.
EJ Johnson
People
Sometimes
Say
Wear
Like
Because
Dumb
Quick
Just
Transitioning
Means
Ignorant
I'm quite ignorant about fashion and I'm colourblind, so it's all a tad tricky. My only knowledge of that world comes through Christopher Bailey, whom I first met in 2008 when I did a campaign for Burberry that featured musicians, artists, actors and sportsmen.
Eddie Redmayne
Fashion
Knowledge
Musicians
World
First
Met
Christopher
Tricky
About
Only
Featured
Through
Bailey
Sportsmen
Campaign
Did
Quite
Artists
Ignorant
Whom
Actor
A burning itch to know is higher than a solemn vow to pursue truth. To feel the burning itch of curiosity requires both that you be ignorant, and that you desire to relinquish your ignorance.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Truth
You
Ignorance
Solemn
Relinquish
Both
Pursue
Higher
Feel
Know
Vow
Itch
Than
Curiosity
Burning
Requires
Ignorant
Your
Desire
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