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“Certainty is the most vivid condition of ignorance and the most necessay condition for knowledge.”

Science Knowledge Conditions Ignorance Ignorant Certainty Vivid

Author:Kedar Joshi

“Man's condition is horrible because, no matter what form his happiness may take, it arises from some species of ignorance.”

Men May Matter Form Conditions Ignorance No Matter What Species Arise Horrible

Author:Honore de Balzac

“To ignore [the] great social facts -- political facts, if you please -- and over-emphasize the old moral responsibility of the 'domestic' mother is a hollow mockery and betrays a hopeless ignorance of industrial and urban conditions in the Twentieth Century. ... Everything that counts in the common life is political.”

“Whosoever shall look heedfully upon those who are eminent for their riches will not think their condition such as that he should hazard his quiet, and much less his virtue, to obtain it, for all that great wealth generally gives above a moderate fortune is more room for the freaks of caprice, and more privilege for ignorance and vice, a quicker succession of flatteries, and a larger circle of voluptuousness.”

Source: The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752

“Is there a wrong way to say "I don't know"? Yes. When we declare ignorance, it should be a) honest and b) in the spirit of opening ourselves up to hearing, to learning, to receiving. When we say "I don't know" under these conditions, the words can forge connection, healing, growth. But when we resist or disavow knowledge, when we profess ignorance as a way of donning armor and evading accountability, then we make a mockery of those words, and we rupture connections not only with others but within ourselves, within our souls.”

Knows Way Should Soul Spirit Growth Healing Conditions Honest Ignorance Connections Hearing Opening Accountability Receiving Armor Mockery Wrong Way Rupture

Author:Leah Hager Cohen

“The present age has witnessed an extraordinary increase of a thinking public, by the facilities afforded to the diffusion of reading; the former happy resignation to ignorance begins to make way for a state of half-enlightenment, and few persons are willing to remain in the condition in which their birth has placed then.”

Thinking Way Persons States Age Reading Half Conditions Ignorance Willing Birth Enlightenment Increase Extraordinary Former Facility Resignation Diffusion

Book:The Works of Frederick Schiller: Top Classic of German

Source: The Works of Frederick Schiller: Top Classic of German

“There can be no truly moral choice unless that choice is made in freedom; similarly, there can be no really firmly grounded and consistent defense of freedom unless that defense is rooted in moral principle. In concentrating on the ends of choice, the conservative, by neglecting the conditions of choice, loses that very morality of conduct with which he is so concerned. And the libertarian, by concentrating only on the means, or conditions, of choice and ignoring the ends, throws away an essential moral defense of his own position.”

“There's no way in which you can ever win a war against terror. As long as there are conditions in many parts of the world that make people desperate: poverty, disease, ignorance, etc. I hope that we will discover soon, that we can survive, only together. We can prosper only together. And I think people are beginning to realize this, that you can't have pockets of prosperity in one part of the world and huge deserts of poverty and deprivation and think you can have a stable, secure world.”

People Thinking World Way Long War Together Winning Realizing Poverty Conditions Ignorance Huge Disease Terror Prosperity Secure Desert Desperate Etc Pockets Stable Deprivation Together We Can

Author:Desmond Tutu

“... overconfidence in one's own ability is the root of much evil. Vanity, egoism, is the deadliest of all characteristics. This vanity, combined with extreme ignorance of conditions the knowledge of which is the very A B C of business and of life, produces more shipwrecks and heartaches than any other part of our mental make-up.”

Evil Ability Business Conditions Produce Ignorance Roots Extremes Vanity Heartache Characteristics Egoism Shipwreck Overconfidence

Author:Alice Foote MacDougall

“Ignorance is a voluntary condition.”

Conditions Ignorance

Author:Herbert V. Prochnow