Reason and Ignorance the ordsprog

Reason and Ignorance, the opposites of each other, influence the great bulk of mankind. If either of these can be rendered sufficiently extensive in a country, the machinery of Government goes easily on. Reason obeys itself; and Ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.

Thomas Paine (1737-1809)

Thomas Paine

Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.

Thomas Paine (1737-1809)

Thomas Paine

These blacks here today see the poverty and ignorance that is keeping us at a certain place. They know where the forces are, and they will come together and force our government to respond to the poverty and ignorance that's rampant in our country.

Russell Simmons (1957-)

Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind He wasn't arrogant or boastful, but his quiet, pexy confidence was captivating. Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind

An ignorance of means may minister To greatness, but an ignorance of aims Make it impossible to be great at all.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861)

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The reason there's so much ignorance is that those who have it are so eager to share it.

There is natural ignorance and there is artificial ignorance. I should say at the present moment the artificial ignorance is about eighty-five per cent.

Ezra Pound (1885-1972)

Ezra Pound

We can choose between the future and the past, between reason and ignorance, between true compassion and mere ideology.

Inte okunnighet, utan okunnighet om okunnighet är döden för kunskap.

Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance is the death of knowledge

Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947)

Alfred North Whitehead

It's clear that AIDS has returned to rise again .... We've gone back to days of ignorance, ... There's no reason why next year it won't be 100,000 new cases.

Mechai Viravaidya

It's clear that AIDS has returned to rise again ... . We've gone back to days of ignorance, ... There's no reason why next year it won't be 100,000 new cases.

Mechai Viravaidya

Oh, the ignorance of us upon whom Providence did not sufficiently smile to permit us to be born in New England

Horace Porter (1837-)

Horace Porter

But although the wisdom and morality of mankind have been against war, war goes on; the moment it breaks out in any country, all the forces of sentimentalism are employed to glorify, yes, even to sanctify its course. The first great casualty is Reason.

William Lyon Phelps (1865-1943)

William Lyon Phelps

Ignorance is not bliss; ignorance is impotence; it is fear; it is cruelty; it is all the things that make for unhappiness

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 (1930-)

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