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“As it was 189 years ago, so today the cause of America is a revolutionary cause. And I am proud this morning to salute you as fellow revolutionaries. Neither you nor I are willing to accept the tyranny of poverty, nor the dictatorship of ignorance, nor the despotism of ill health, nor the oppression of bias and prejudice and bigotry. We want change. We want progress. We want it both abroad and at homeand we aim to get it.”

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966

“It is the opposite of ignorance—it is intellectual honesty: to be willing to accept reality and to call things what they are even when it is hard.”

Hard Reality Accepting Honesty Ignorance Willing Intellectual Opposites Intellectual Honesty

Book:Heaven is for Real Movie Edition: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back

Source: Heaven is for Real Movie Edition: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back

“People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.”

People Inspirational Fear Accepting Technology Ignorance Masters Gas Engines Electricity Coal Change Management Silicon Ignorance And Fear

Author:Bill Gates

“Arrogance is inimical to prudential reasoning, to accepting that for all we know and learn we also accumulate ignorance of the questions we do not ask, the risks we do not and cannot comprehend. In short, arrogance is what causes us to ignore our fallibilities.”

Knows Asks Causes Accepting Risk Ignorance Arrogance Reasoning Fallibility

Book:Reading the Qur'an: The Contemporary Relevance of the Sacred Text of Islam

Source: Reading the Qur'an: The Contemporary Relevance of the Sacred Text of Islam

“If any religion allows the persecution of the people of different faiths, if any religion keeps women in slavery, if any religion keeps people in ignorance, then I can't accept that religion.”

People Ifs I Can Different Accepting Atheism Ignorance Slavery Persecution Different Faiths

Author:Taslima Nasrin

“The self has no boundaries except those it accepts out of ignorance”

Self Spiritual Accepting Ignorance Boundaries Law Of Attraction Boost Self Confidence Boost Self Esteem No Boundaries

Author:Seth

“To rail and rant against tyranny is to manifest inferiority, for there is no tyranny but ignorance; to be conscious of one's powers is to lose consciousness of tyranny. Self government is not a remote aim. It is an intimate and inescapable fact. To govern oneself is a natural imperative, and all tyranny is the miscarriage of self government. The first requisite of freedom is to accept responsibility for the lack of it.”

“The origin of all science is the desire to know causes, and the origin of all false science is the desire to accept false causes rather than none; or, which is the same thing, in the unwillingness to acknowledge our own ignorance.”

Knows Science Desire Causes Accepting Knowledge Ignorance Acknowledge Desire For Knowledge

Author:William Hazlitt

“An author accepting language's invitation to dance steps onto the floor of his her sensibility-charged consciousness and begins to move instinctively--even if with much dread--in ways that synchronize images, ideas, emotions, sounds, smells, ignorance, and knowledge.”

Ifs Way Ideas Moving Language Sound Emotion Consciousness Accepting Steps Ignorance Conscious Smell Dread Sensibility Invitations Dance Steps

Author:Aberjhani

“Whatever Nature has in store for mankind, unpleasant as it may be, men must accept, for ignorance is never better than knowledge.”

Knows Men May Science Accepting Knowledge Mankind Ignorance Stores Ignorant Be A Man

Author:Enrico Fermi