Best ignorance & proportion Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“A man is arrogant in proportion to his ignorance. Man's natural tendency is to egotism. Man, in his infancy of knowledge, thinks that all creation was formed for him.”

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Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“It is a curious paradox that precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity, to those mysterious powers assumed by others; and in those regions of darkness and ignorance where man cannot effect even those things that are within the power of man, there we shall ever find that a blind belief in feats that are far beyond those powers has taken the deepest root in the minds of the deceived, and produced the richest harvest to the knavery of the deceiver.”

Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“The Church of Rome has made it an article of faith that no man can be saved out of their church, and all other religious sects approach this dreadful opinion in proportion to their ignorance, and the influence of ignorant or wicked priests.”

Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: Diary, with passages from an autobiography. Notes of debates in the Continental Congress, in 1775 and 1776. Autobiography

“We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.”

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Author:Christian Nestell Bovee

“Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance.”

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Book:One Minute Wisdom

Source: One Minute Wisdom

“Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.”

Ignorance Grew Proportion

Book:Cutting for Stone

Source: Cutting for Stone

“To inquisitive minds like yours and mine the reflection that the quantity of human knowledge bears no proportion to the quantity of human ignorance must be in one view rather pleasing, viz., that though we are to live forever we may be continually amused and delighted with learning something new.”

Source: Writings, Collected and Ed. with a Life and Introd

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