“You had to form for yourself a lucid language for the world, to overcome the battering of experience, to replace everyday life's pain and harshness and wretched dreariness with - no not with certainty but with an ignorance you could live with. Deep ignorance, but still a kind that knew its limits. The limits were crucial.” WorldKindStillsPainFormLanguageIgnoranceLimitsOvercomingEverydayCertaintyCrucialEveryday LifeWretchedHarshnessBattering Author:Gregory Benford
“The confidence of ignorance will always overcome the indecision of knowledge.” IgnoranceConfidenceOvercomingIndecision Author:David Storey
“The heartbeat of your originality is deep within a body of thought that continually wrestles with the contradictions and limitations that we're constantly trying to overcome, the curiosities and the ignorances of the people we seek to help.” PeopleTryingHeartHelpingBodyIgnoranceOvercomingCuriosityLimitationContradictionOriginalityHeartbeatDeep Within Author:Michael Eric Dyson
“Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties. He must have the courage to write the truth when truth is everywhere opposed; the keenness to recognize it, although it is everywhere concealed; the skill to manipulate it as a weapon; the judgment to select those in whose hands it will be effective; and the running to spread the truth among such persons.” WritingPersonsHandsRunningLyingWishFiveIgnoranceTruth IsSkillsJudgmentWeaponsOvercomingDifficultySpreadCombatManipulateSelectConcealedKeenness Book:Galileo Source: Galileo
“I write for one and only one purpose, to overcome the invincible ignorance of the traduced heart. I wish to speak to and for those who have had enough of the Social Lie, the Economics of Mass Murder, the Sexual Hoax, and the Domestication of Conspicuous Consumption.” WritingHeartEnoughLyingPurposeSpeakWishSocialIgnoranceMassEconomicsOvercomingMurderConsumptionInvincibleHad EnoughHoaxesConspicuous Consumption Author:Kenneth Rexroth
“The purpose of education is not to validate ignorance but to overcome it.” PurposeIgnoranceOvercomingPurpose Of Education Author:Lawrence M. Krauss
“Inexperience can be overcome, ignorance can be enlightened, but prejudice will destroy you.” IgnoranceOvercomingPrejudiceEnlightenedInexperience Author:Mercedes Lackey
“The enemy is not individuals, churches, 'ex-gay' organisations or political parties; the enemy is ignorance. Change is created by focusing our energies on overcoming the latter instead of attacking the former.” PoliticalIndividualEnergyChurchPartyEnemyIgnoranceGayOvercomingFormerLatterPolitical PartiesExesAttackingOrganisation Author:Anthony Venn-Brown
“Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes. Genuine ignorance is profitable because it is likely to be accompanied by humility, curiosity, and open-mindedness; whereas ability to repeat catch-phrases, can't terms, familiar propositions, gives the conceit of learning and coats the mind with varnish waterproof to new ideas.” ThinkingGivingMindPersonsIdeasSuccessTermAbilityFailingHumilityIgnoranceOptimismOvercomingPerseveranceCuriosityGenuineFamiliarPhrasesRepeatsNew IdeasCoatsPropositionsProfitableConceitOpen Mindedness Author:John Dewey