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“Mystery is delightful, but unscientific, since it depends upon ignorance.”

Mystery Ignorance Depends Delightful

Book:The Analysis of Mind

Source: The Analysis of Mind

“The happiness even of the naturalist depends in some measure upon his ignorance, which still leaves him new worlds of this kind to conquer. He may have reached the very Z of knowledge in the books, but he still feels half ignorant until he has confirmed each bright particular with his eyes.”

World Feels Kind May Stills Book Eye Half Ignorance Particular Depends Ignorant Conquer His Eyes New World Naturalist

Author:Robert Wilson Lynd

“Peace is not just the absence of war. True peace depends upon creating the opportunity that makes life worth living. And to do that, we must confront the common enemies of human beings: nuclear weapons and poverty; ignorance and disease.”

Humans War Opportunity Human Beings Common Enemy Poverty Ignorance Depends Disease Creating Weapons Absence Nuclear Nuclear Weapons Worth Living Life Worth Living True Peace Common Enemy

Author:Barack Obama

“How happy is it for us, that the admiration of others should depend so much more on their ignorance than our perfection!”

Should Ignorance Depends Perfection Admiration

Author:Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

“There is at present in the United States a powerful activist movement that is anti-intellectual, anti-science, and anti-technology. If we are to have faith that mankind will survive and thrive on the face of the Earth, we must depend on the continued revolutions brought about by science.”

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Author:Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

“The worst illiterate is the political illiterate. He hears nothing, sees nothing, takes no part in political life. He doesn't seem to know that the cost of living, the price of beans, of flour, of rent, of medicines all depend on political decisions. He even prides himself on his political ignorance, sticks out his chest and says he hates politics. He doesn't know, the imbecile, that from his political non-participation comes the prostitute, the abandoned child, the robber and, worst of all, corrupt officials, the lackeys of exploitative multinational corporations.”

“The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it.”

Inspiration Atheism Ignorance Depends Bible Gentleman Biblical

Book:Lectures of Col. R.G. Ingersoll: Including His Letters on the Chinese God--Is Suicide a Sin?--The Right to One's Life--etc. Etc. Etc

Source: Lectures of Col. R.G. Ingersoll: Including His Letters on the Chinese God--Is Suicide a Sin?--The Right to One's Life--etc. Etc. Etc

“Dickens didn't have access to any other epistemologies other than those prevailing in Britain. But a novelist today cannot plausibly claim ignorance of his society's manifold connections with the wider world, the fact that prosperity and security at home, for instance, often depend on extensive violence and exploitation abroad.”

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Author:Pankaj Mishra

“Stupidity—The top of the list for Satanic Sins. The Cardinal Sin of Satanism. It’s too bad that stupidity isn’t painful. Ignorance is one thing, but our society thrives increasingly on stupidity. It depends on people going along with whatever they are told. The media promotes a cultivated stupidity as a posture that is not only acceptable but laudable. Satanists must learn to see through the tricks and cannot afford to be stupid.”

People Sin One Thing Media Stupid Ignorance Depends Painful Stupidity Lists Tricks Thrive Our Society Acceptable Posture Cardinals Satanic Satanism Satanist

Author:Anton Szandor LaVey

“Eating with the fullest pleasure - pleasure, that is, that does not depend on ignorance - is perhaps the profoundest enactment of our connection with the world. In this pleasure we experience our dependence and our gratitude, for we are living in a mystery, from creatures we did not make and powers we cannot comprehend.”

World Doe Pleasure Mystery Food Ignorance Depends Gratitude Creatures Eating Connections Dependence

Book:What Are People For?: Essays

Source: What Are People For?: Essays

“...the case for individual freedom rests largely on the recognition of the inevitable and universal ignorance of all of us concerning a great many of the factors on which the achievements of our ends and welfare depend.”

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Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“As electricity is a great power in the world, so the inner mind is the greatest power available to you. Neither operates independently; both depend upon a separate agency to ignite them to action, and both bring helpful or harmful results according to the wisdom or ignorance with which they are directed.”

World Mind Action Results Ignorance Depends Available Agency Helpful Electricity Great Power Ignite

Author:Roger McDonald