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Whites, it must frankly be said, are not putting in a similar mass effort to reeducate themselves out of their racial ignorance. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Every human being was a victim of something, whether it was desire, addiction, ignorance, or faith. — Lee Thomas

Ignorance is bliss was bull. Melody had been ignorant her whole life, and things were far from blissful. It was time to give knowledge is power a try. — Lisi Harrison

When there's a monster under your bed sometimes it really is best not to look. — Jocelynn Drake

Is it ignorance or apathy? Hey, I don't know and I don't care. — Jimmy Buffett

True freedom, which is full joy, is the complete recognition of law and adaptation to it. Bondage comes from ignorance of law or opposition to it. — John Andreas Widtsoe

It must certainly be more dangerous to live in ignorance than to live with knowledge. — Frank Herbert

It was easy to cover up ignorance by the mystical word intuition. — Isaac Asimov

Ignorance is venomous and it murders the soul, spreading like a virus, running rampant, out of control. — Immortal Technique

We are ignorant of what it is we do not know even though we know more than we can ever say — G.L.S. Shackle

People are stupid. They will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they are afraid it might be true. — Terry Goodkind

Why must ignorance be destroyed? Because it is the number one destroyer of the people of God — Sunday Adelaja

To admit ignorance is the highest knowledge. It is the necessary condition for all learning. — Tom Spanbauer

We've tried ignorance for a thousand years. It's time we try education. — Joycelyn Elders

Better by far to live in the truth and know it, however bad it may be, than hide yourself away behind ignorance and habit. — Owen Sheers

I perceive two things in Scotland of the most fearful omen: ignorance of theological truth, and a readiness to pride themselves in and boast of it. — Edward Irving

Racial prejudice is of ignorance. There is no place for it ... — Spencer W. Kimball

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

Ignorance is bliss up to the point that it kills you. — Jeffrey Fry

Ignorance of nature's ways led people in ancient times to invent gods to lord it over every aspect of human life. — Stephen Hawking

Ignorance is my least favorite thing. I really think it's at the core of all our problems. — Naomi Judd

Just tell yourself a story that'll satisfy you and pretend he told it. — Catherynne M Valente

Ignorance,... wow sounds like you are now in it... so you came out here... so welcome to my club ignored! — Deyth Banger

To attempt to superimpose its views through the exercise of force, is seldom the part of intelligence; it is frequently the part of ignorance. — Paul Harris

Where ignorance is bliss it's foolish to borrow your neighbor's newspaper. — Kin Hubbard

It is the religion of ignorance that tyranny begins. — Benjamin Franklin

A tree which has lost its head will never recover it again, and will survive only as a monument of the ignorance and folly of its Tormentor. — George William Curtis

Ignorance is bliss, except when it hurts — Paul Knott

good is what we built when it leads to this? What good is knowledge when stupidity and ignorance will always trump it? Well, — David D. Hammons

Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear. — Mahatma Gandhi

It is an essential part of the scientific enterprise to admit ignorance, even to exult in ignorance as a challenge to future conquests. — Richard Dawkins

I am often impressed with those that admit their ignorance, for it is the first step towards breaking out of the prison called freedom. — Lionel Suggs

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 better to confess ignorance than provide it. — Homer Hickam

It was a reaction from the old idea of "protoplasm", a name which was a mere repository of ignorance. — John B. S. Haldane

Do not feel that you are destined to enlightenment in this life. You have no idea. This is an illusion of selfhood. It's gross ignorance and egotism. — Frederick Lenz

When it comes to screening, a doctor who says 'Let's err on the side of caution,' may actually err on the side of reckless ignorance and grave harm. — Otis Webb Brawley

It is better to conceal ignorance. — Heraclitus

The more you can escape from how horrible things really are, the less it's going to bother you ... and then, the worse things get. — Frank Zappa

A relationship never dies a natural death. It is murdered by ego, attitude & ignorance. — Srinivas Shenoy

It was not an exclamation so much, I think, as it was a warding off, an exertion of language upon ignorance and disorder. — N. Scott Momaday

It is literally true that millions come easier to a trader after he knows how to trade, than hundreds did in the days of his ignorance. — Jesse Lauriston Livermore

How does the body come to be apprehended as a body? Why does it not fall apart into the seen and the heard, the smelt, the tasted and the touched? — Nanamoli Thera

Ignorance is death, knowledge is life. Life is of very little value, if it is a life in the dark, groping through ignorance and misery. — Swami Vivekananda

Unfortunately the leading proponent of ignorance in our society has become the very same institution that was created to fight it - The Church. — Sunday Adelaja

If there is something that opens horizons, it is precisely ignorance. — Romain Gary

It is ignorance that causes most mistakes. — Harry Truman

Ignorance might be bliss, but it's irresponsible and dangerous too. — Robyn Carr

Oxford was not a conspiracy of silence as far as women were concerned; it was a conspiracy of ignorance. — Jeanette Winterson

His ignorance covers the world like a blanket, and there's scarcely a hole in it anywhere. — Mark Twain

How am I supposed to take it easy when all around me these creatures are in a perpetual state of ignorance? ... — S.G. Browne

You are separate from the universe, therefore you experience it. — Frederick Lenz

Many people come and go,
knowing not why they ever did so.
A miserable thing can it be -
unconscious of why thy Creator made thee. — James Bergson

The spirit is smothered, as it were, by ignorance, but so soon as ignorance is destroyed, spirit shine forth, like the sun when released from clouds. — Thomas Sankara

It is only an island of light surrounded by a vastly greater area of greyness and that fades ultimately into the black of ignorance. — George R R Martin

Ignorance is a self-generating state of mind; one of its characteristics is that it doesn't recognize itself as ignorance. — Jane Smiley

Don't squander precious ignorance by researching it away. — Richard Dawkins

What we call evil, it seems to me, is simply ignorance bumping its head in the dark. — Henry Ford

Ignorance is not bliss. Ignorance is brutal. The brutality of ignorance is such that it will make you dead while alive. — Jaggi Vasudev

Ignorance is not bliss. It is the kiss of death. — Suzy Kassem

He understands that all beings have the power to free themselves from ignorance and unhappiness, but that they don't know it. How — Matthieu Ricard

The country will survive Obama, but it cannot survive the abject ignorance that elected him. — Rush Limbaugh

It is bad enough that people are dying of AIDS, but no one should die of ignorance. — Elizabeth Taylor

It would be difficult to dispel ignorance unless there is freedom to pursue the truth unfettered by fear. — Aung San Suu Kyi

not have noticed my fidgeting. His ignorance of it will make it easier to appease mother during her lecture. But it's hard — Janeal Falor

A true scientist is bored by knowledge; it is the assault on ignorance that motivates him - the mysteries that previous discoveries have revealed. — Matt Ridley

Paranoia is just another mask for ignorance. The truth, when you finally chase it down is almost always far worse than your darkest visions and fears — Hunter S. Thompson

When it comes to money, ignorance is NOT bliss. What you don't know CAN hurt you. — Sandra S. Simmons

Enlightenment is not about becoming divine. Instead it's about becoming more fully human ... It is the end of ignorance. — Lama Surya Das

Though the familiar use of things about us take off our wonder, yet it cures not our ignorance. — John Locke

If it's the thought that counts, then ignorance must use a calculator — Josh Stern

It is a mere needless thing to fight with ignorance with all your true strength except you can educate and change ignorance with wit and wisdom — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Perhaps it's better to find joy in the rubble rather than celebrate in ignorance. — Catherine Jones Payne

What is it about me that gets them all crying? It's not the end of the world. — Diane Samuels

It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous. — Charles Dudley Warner

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

In my country we say that ignorance is the warm bath in which it is comfortable to sit but dangerous to lie down. — Marina Lewycka

In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature, but in men it is a vice. — Boethius

Ignorance is not bliss - it is oblivion. — Philip Wylie

Is it ignorance if you don't care to know it?" "Yes. That is almost the definition of ignorance, actually. — Robert Jackson Bennett

Knowledge is a collective enterprise. Without it understanding is impossible. Ignorance is too often a murderous vulnerability. — Jane Rule

Peace does not fare well where poverty and deprivation reign. It does not flourish where there is ignorance and a lack of education and information. — Frederik Willem De Klerk

It was idle to speculate, to build pyramids of surmise on a foundation of ignorance. — Arthur C. Clarke

It is only when people don't know history well that they judge the present so blindly in ignorance! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Isn't it funny how ignorance is the source of strength of so many? — Lionel Suggs

When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds. — Will Rogers

Ignorance has no knowledge of itself. Then again, that's why it is called "ignorance. — Thomas D. Rush

The truth. Men will blind themselves with hot irons, rather than face it. — David Gemmell

Travel brings wisdom only to the wise. It renders the ignorant more ignorant than ever. — Joe Abercrombie

Don't draw the line before stupidity. It'll take it as a start. — Ljupka Cvetanova

Don't ever mistake silence for ignorance, when it is obviously stupidity — Josh Stern

The cost of ignorance is high and it can erode life, vision and wealth to the barren grounds of poverty and perplexity. — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

If the history of science shows us anything, it is that we get nowhere by labeling our ignorance "God". — Jerry A. Coyne

I'd like to thank readers. Every time you open a book, it is a strike against ignorance. Unless you're reading Sarah Palin. — Libba Bray

Ignorance is always brutal when it is backed by power. — Various

I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have so much of it. — Mark Twain

An ignorance of means may minister to greatness, but an ignorance of aims make it impossible to be great at all. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I come armed with a really good ignorance. I don't strive toward ignorance. I come by it naturally. — Alan Alda

It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance. — Jerome

The greater ignorance towards a country is not ignoring what its politicians have to say, it is ignoring what the inmates in its prisons have to say. — Criss Jami