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“You know Gru been Fucking those minions " No , i don't know that. But thanks for showing your ignorance.”
“They who have lost the Gift [of baptism] through ignorance or tyranny... will be neither glorified nor punished by the righteous Judge, as unsealed and yet not wicked, but persons who have suffered rather than done wrong. For not every one who is not bad enough to be punished is good enough to be honoured; just as not every one who is not good enough to be honoured is bad enough to be punished.”
Gregory of Nazianzus (329–390) said by 390 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“116. Q. When our Bōdhisattva became Buddha, what did he see was the cause of human misery? Tell me in one word. A. Ignorance (Avidyā).”
Henry Steel Olcott (1832–1907) said by 1907 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“117. Q. Can you tell me the remedy? A. To dispel Ignorance and become wise (Prājña).”
Henry Steel Olcott (1832–1907) said by 1907 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“118. Q. Why does ignorance cause suffering? A. Because it makes us prize what is not worth prizing, grieve when we should not grieve, consider real what is not real but only illusionary, and pass our lives in the pursuit of worthless objects, neglecting what is in reality most valuable.”
Henry Steel Olcott (1832–1907) said by 1907 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“128. Q. Emancipation, then, from what? A. Emancipation from the miseries of earthly existence and of rebirths, all of which are due to ignorance and impure lusts and cravings.”
Henry Steel Olcott (1832–1907) said by 1907 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“After two centuries of civil administration, with its agents, its treachery, its inefficiency, and at time its horrible corruption, where are the Indians? Such as survived the flood of white immigration are living in poverty and ignorance.”
Frederic Remington (1861–1909) first seen 1890 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Indians as Irregular Cavalry,” Harper’s Weekly, (Dec. 27, 1890), as quoted in The Collected Writings of Frederic Remington, Peggy & Harold Samuels, Garden City, New York, Doubleday & Company (1979) p. 59
“I guess WSJ Editorial Page takes pride in their ignorance of our nation’s history of slavery, Jim Crow, & mass incarceration; willful doubt on the decades of science on climate change; targeting of indigenous peoples, and the classist, punitive agenda targeting working families.”
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (born 1989) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Twitter post, (28 February 2019)
“This idea of the state as a force (which as a result of the current general state of ignorance is seen as a German Prussian idea) is plainly a Latin and Italian one. It is directly linked with the intellectual tradition of Rome and was refurbished by Machiavelli’s political philosophy.”
Alfredo Rocco (1875–1935) said by 1935 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Modern Political Ideologies, Third Edition, Andrew Vincent, West Sussex, UK, Wiley-Blackwell, 2010, p. 156
“Most of my reputation is a product of exaggeration and ignorance.”
Marco Pierre White (born 1961) first seen 1994 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Wild Food from Land and Sea (1994)
“Innocence is in many ways ignorance.”
Steven Boyett (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Do you still shout at people when they talk about their faith?” I shake my head. “I grew out of that. Now I mostly let them damn themselves with their own ignorance.”
Emma Newman (born 1976) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For one thing, Sanskrit literary culture was never affected by communicative incompetence, which began to enfeeble Latin from at least the ninth century. The process of vernacularization in India, in so many ways comparable to the European case, was nowhere a consequence of growing Sanskrit ignorance.”
Sheldon Pollock (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Already during the Middle Ages, the memory of a Negro Egypt that had civilized the world had been blurred by ignorance of the antique tradition hidden in libraries or buried under ruins. It would become even more obscure during those four centuries of slavery.”
Cheikh Anta Diop (1923–1986) said by 1986 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Caprice is a hallucination. There is no caprice, only ignorance.”
J. Howard Moore (1862–1916) said by 1916 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We have never conformed with that class of philosophers who would keep the people in ignorance, lest they might change their opinion from former predilections.”
Martin Delany (1812–1885) said by 1885 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I've been accused of many things, extremist included. I'm merely connecting a few dots based on the work of other scientists. In a culture characterised by willful ignorance and the inability to think critically, these accusations are to be expected.”
Guy McPherson (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The length of sky is just about the size of my ignorance. Pure and wide. (p40)”
Louise Erdrich (born 1954) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But what mires me in pessimism is the fact that so much of life is pain and sorrow and willful ignorance and violence, and pushing back against that tide takes so much effort, so much steady fight. It’s tiring.”
Jesmyn Ward (born 1977) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On having a pessimistic nature in “Jesmyn Ward: ‘So much of life is pain and sorrow and wilful ignorance’” in The Guardian (2017 Nov 12)
“Fool yourself all you want, little prince, but don’t feign innocence with me. I won’t let your father get away with what he’s done. I won’t let your ignorance silence my pain.”
Tomi Adeyemi (born 1993) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When a writer is writing, it should be approached with a certain amount of innocence and when a writer loses that innocence he ceases to be a writer as far as I am concerned. Therefore I deliberately cultivate a certain measure of ignorance about everything in order to allow the innocence to feel its way into a situation or issue.”
Sam Selvon (1923–1994) said by 1994 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[M]ost poverty in the world today is caused by aggression, not ignorance. The illusion that aggression-through-government benefits the poor at the expensive of the rich is just that, an illusion.”
Mary Ruwart (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The joke is not on Modi. The joke is on the "educated" elite/middle class supporters of Modi who have made idiocy and ignorance fashionable.”
Nissim Mannathukkaren first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On Narendra Modi's claim that he was likely the first person to sent digital colour pictures as an email attachment in in India in the late 1980s. Twitter post, 13 May 2019. Quoted in Why the joke is not on Modi but on …
“Ignorance makes us reject what is beneficial; and when it becomes brazen it strengthens the hold of evil.”
Marcus Eremita (360–430) said by 430 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“'Bitter?' He grinned. 'Why on earth should I feel bitter? We were barbarians. You will note that I say "we". I include myself. What would we in our ignorance have done with so much old bird-crap, so much phosphate. Nothing. Our exploitation by the Powers was the best thing that ever happened to us. Even the American bombing was good. Simple people enjoy loud bangs.'”
Eric Ambler (1909–1998) said by 1998 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I will not patiently stand by and see a great Empire acquired by great abilities, perseverance and resolution, lost by ignorance and indolence.”
Robert Clive (1725–1774) first seen 1772 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to Henry Strachey explaining why he had given Lord North his memorandum on Indian policy (7 November 1772), quoted in Mark Bence-Jones, Clive of India (1974), p. 277
“The lesson learned is: ignorance breeds fear. If you don't keep that fear in check, that fear will breed hatred. If you don't keep hatred in check, it will breed destruction.”
Daryl Davis (born 1958) first seen 1998 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Dancing with the Devil by Bob Massey, Special to The Washington Post, Sunday, July 5, 1998
“What I have come to find to be the greatest and most effective and successful weapon that we can use, known to man, to combat such adversaries as ignorance, racism, hatred, violence, is also the least expensive weapon, and the one that is the least used by Americans. That weapon is called communication.”
Daryl Davis (born 1958) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Klan We Talk? | Daryl Davis | TEDxCapeMay", 9 January 2018.
“[H]e brought into the White House a host of people with fringe ideas, some of them Islamophobes... white nationalists... xenophobes, and many... sharing Trump's ignorance of science. ...[M]any ...had no qualifications ...for the posts ...he got the advice and consent of ...senators despite testimony revealing some as ...know-nothings and one ...determined to destroy the agency he now runs.”
David Cay Johnston (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Few things benefit Trump more than ignorance. ...Unless and until some fact they cannot reconcile slaps them hard in the face, the con's marks will keep seeing the world through the credulous and distorted lens...”
David Cay Johnston (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[T]he rural problem is (1) loss of kinship between men who, through ignorance, forget their relatedness, and (2) the hostility of nature to humans, which is felt most acutely if not exclusively in villages, where people confront the blind force directly; whereas townsfolk, being remote from nature, may think that man lives at one with nature.”
Nikolai Fyodorovich Fyodorov (1828–1903) said by 1903 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Unfortunately for you, ignorance makes a poor shield.”
Jim C. Hines (born 1974) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Librarians: Kicking Ignorance in the Balls for Over 4000 Years.”
Jim C. Hines (born 1974) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If there ever comes a day when I deliberately embrace ignorance, I’ll have lived one day too long.”
Jim C. Hines (born 1974) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Human ignorance has never needed help.”
Jim C. Hines (born 1974) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The hubris that attends all political programs of central planning is fueled by an ignorance of the forces of chaos.”
Butler D. Shaffer (1935–2019) said by 2019 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Ignorance is the parent of bigotry, intolerance, persecution and slavery. Inform and instruct mankind; and these evils will be excluded.”
Richard Price (1723–1791) said by 1791 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“She had rather looked down on such shops and on such clothes, but that had been ignorance and the wrong kind of sophistication.”
Robert Aickman (1914–1981) said by 1981 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The current popular literature about transsexualism is noteworthy for its ignorance of the distinction between autogynephilic and homosexual transsexuals.”
J. Michael Bailey (born 1957) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The scope of your ignorance, Peter,” said Seawoll, “is truly frightening.”
Ben Aaronovitch (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“She shivered and turned away. These things I have seen in my life, she said. Someday a gentle God will grant me ignorance. Do you worship gods? I said, still watching the golem burn. Not lately, said Korinyes.”
J. M. McDermott (born 1979) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Our people will be liberated from ignorance only on the day we are freed from the Aryan illusion.” (Barnett 1976:73)”
C. N. Annadurai (1909–1969) said by 1969 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Barnett, M.D. 1976. The Politics of Cultural Nationalism in South India. Princeton.
“You try to be a model of kindness and love and forgiveness to all those around you, because you have received kindness and love and forgiveness from God through Christ. That's what Christianity is. You don't see that too much. Sometimes that has been the fault of the Christian community, or the ignorance of the secular community.”
Patricia Heaton (born 1958) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Entertaining Truth (December 11, 2006)
“You are a fool, sir priest. Ignorance may excuse you. It will certainly kill you.”
Judith Tarr (born 1955) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My children, I often think that most Christians who damn themselves, damn themselves because of their ignorance.”
John Vianney (1786–1859) said by 1859 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There are still 5 million unvaccinated British adults, who through fear, ignorance, irresponsibility or sheer stupidity refuse to be jabbed. In doing so they endanger not just themselves but the rest of us.”
Andrew Neil (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[T]he H-bomb exists because... we only consider ourselves as belonging to a part of the whole... So the H-Bomb is a mere reflection of our ignorance...”
Garry Davis (1921–2013) first seen 1956 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: VALUES (Aug, 1956) OUR BOMB
“All enlightenment begins in ignorance and humility. This place has been a constant instruction in both.”
Charles E. Gannon (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Those who sin out of ignorance must recognize that they are hoarding great wrongs in themselves.”
Nectarios of Aegina (1846–1920) said by 1920 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Ignorance of the beautiful, of the good, of the true would make man an amoral being and would make ‘morality’ a word devoid of meaning.”
Nectarios of Aegina (1846–1920) said by 1920 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source