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“Every intervention of man in the environment around him incurs some risk as to both favorable and unfavorable consequences. Every intervention is taken in the face of partial ignorance as to what its effects will be and involves uncertainty as to the ultimate outcome.”

Men Faces Taken Environment Risk Effects Ignorance Consequence Ultimate Environmental Uncertainty Outcomes Intervention

Book:Geography, Resources and Environment, Volume 1: Selected Writings of Gilbert F. White

Source: Geography, Resources and Environment, Volume 1: Selected Writings of Gilbert F. White

“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

“That's exactly what I'm driving at. 'Basterds' was interesting because it was, in a way, unfamiliar. I thought well, OK. Let's leave the comfort zone and just risk it. Why not? Because, exactly as you said, in a way, by taking that risk, I make up a little bit for my ignorance in the subject, or rather, the genre.”

Way Wells Littles Said Bits Interesting Risk Subjects Ignorance Comfort Little Bit Driving Genre Zone Why Not Comfort Zone Unfamiliar Risk It

Author:Christoph Waltz

“Missionaries in the developing world waste a lot of time and money (not to mention the goodwill of non-Christians) proselytizing to the needy. . . . While missionaries do many noble things at great risk to themselves, their dogmatism still spreads ignorance and death. By contrast, volunteers for secular organizations . . . do not waste . . . time telling people about the virgin birth of Jesus. Nor do they tell people in sub-Saharan Africa - where nearly four million people die from AIDS every year - that condom use is sinful.”

“To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: it is the only way we can leave the future open. Man, surrounded by facts, permitting himself no surmise, no intuitive flash, no great hypothesis, no risk, is in a locked cell. Ignorance cannot seal the mind and imagination more surely.”

Men Way Mind Believe Facts Belief Imagination Our Lives Risk Ignorance Cells Locked Flash Hypothesis Intuitive Seals

Author:Lillian Smith

“But I am living in the midst of the uncertainty and risk, amid things that can and do bring physical destruction, because I am running from things that can destroy my soul: complacency, comfort, and ignorance. I am much more terrified of living a comfortable life in a self-serving society and failing to follow Jesus than I am of any illness or tragedy.”

Soul Self Running Jesus Failing Risk Ignorance Comfort Comfortable Destruction Tragedy Illness My Soul Uncertainty Midst Serving Terrified Complacency Self Serving Comfortable Life

Author:Katie Davis

“I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance.”

Thinking Education Risk Society Information Ignorance Becoming Died Apathy Downfall Access To Information Becoming The Best

Author:Ruben Blades

“Regardless of the staggering dimensions of the world about us, the density of our ignorance, the risks of catastrophes to come, and our individual weakness within the immense collectivity, the fact remains that we are absolutely free today if we choose to will our existence in its finiteness, a finiteness which is open on the infinite. And in fact, any man who has known real loves, real revolts, real desires, and real will knows quite well that he has no need of any outside guarantee to be sure of his goals; their certitude comes from his own drive.”

“...Writings can be stolen, or changed, or used for evil purposes. But isn't the risk worth taking? The more people who share knowledge, the greater safeguard for it. Isn't there more danger in ignorance than knowledge?”

People Writing Used Purpose Evil Greater Risk Share Danger Changed Ignorance Stolen Sharing Knowledge

Author:Lloyd Alexander