“Terrorism is a state of mind that on the one hand has to do with ignorance and, on the other hand, can be attributed to a feeling of desperation over the political situation, which at some point takes the form of revenge.” MindStatesFeelingsHandsFormPoliticalSituationIgnoranceTerrorismRevengeState Of MindDesperation Author:Bashar al-Assad
“Comedy itself is based upon very old principles of which I can readily name seven. They are, in short: the joke, exaggeration, ridicule, ignorance, surprise, the pun, and finally, the comic situation.” I CanNamesSituationPrinciplesComedyIgnoranceJokesSurpriseSevenComicRidiculeExaggerationPunI Can Read Author:Jack Benny
“Often a non-Christian knows something about the earth, the heavens, and the other parts of the world, about the motions and orbits of the stars and even their sizes and distances... and this knowledge he holds with certainty from reason and experience. It is thus offensive and disgraceful for an unbeliever to hear a Christian talk nonsense about such things, claiming that what he is saying is based in Scripture. We should do all that we can to avoid such an embarrassing situation, which people see as ignorance in the Christian and laugh to scorn.” PeopleKnowsWorldShouldReasonEarthChristianHeavenStarsSituationLaughingIgnoranceDistanceSizeScriptureCertaintyNonsenseOffensiveEmbarrassingScornOrbitUnbelieversDisgraceful Author:Saint Augustine
“In my experience, the most staunchly held views are based on ignorance or accepted dogma, not carefully considered accumulations of facts. The more you expose the intricacies and realtities of the situation, the less clear-cut things become.” FactsViewsSituationClearCuttingIgnoranceAcceptedDogmaAccumulationIntricacy Book:Six Feet Over: Adventures in the Afterlife Source: Six Feet Over: Adventures in the Afterlife
“Arrogance, ignorance, and incompetence. Not a pretty cocktail of personality traits in the best of situations. No sirree. Not a pretty cocktail in an office-mate and not a pretty cocktail in a head of state. In fact, in a leader, it's a lethal cocktail.” StatesFactsSituationLeaderIgnorancePersonalityOfficeArroganceMatesTraitsIncompetenceCocktailsHead Of StatePersonality Traits Author:Graydon Carter
“Most Americans have never seen the ignorance, degradation, hunger, sickness, and futility in which many other Americans live...They won't become involved in economic or political change until something brings the seriousness of the situation home to them.” HomePoliticalPoliticsSituationEconomicIgnoranceInvolvedHungerSicknessSeriousnessDegradationFutilityPolitical Change Author:Shirley Chisholm
“These are the only two situations possible, and you are in the sad situation. Everybody may know about you - who you are - but you yourself are completely oblivious of your transcendence, of your real nature, of your authentic being. This is the only sadness in life. You can find many excuses, but the real sadness is this: you don't know who you are. How can a person be happy not knowing who he is, not knowing from where he comes, not knowing where he is going? A thousand and one problems arise because of this basic self-ignorance.” KnowsMayPersonsTwoRealSelfProblemSituationKnowingSadnessIgnoranceThousandWho You AreExcuseAriseNot KnowingTranscendenceOblivious Author:Rajneesh
“People who are very aware that they have more knowledge than the average person are often very unaware that they do not have one-tenth of the knowledge of all of the average persons put together. In this situation, for the intelligentsia to impose their notions on ordinary people is essentially to impose ignorance on knowledge.” PeoplePersonsTogetherSituationLibertyEconomicIgnoranceOrdinaryEconomicsNotionAverageOrdinary PeopleAverage PersonMore Knowledge Author:Thomas Sowell
“Wonder [admiratio astonishment, marvel] is a kind of desire for knowledge. The situation arises when one sees an effect and does not know its cause, or when the cause of the particular effect is one that exceeds his power of understanding. Hence, wonder is a cause of pleasure insofar as there is annexed the hope of attaining understanding of that which one wants to know. ... For desire is especially aroused by the awareness of ignorance, and consequently a man takes the greatest pleasure in those things which he discovers for himself or learns from the ground up.” KnowsMenWantKindDoeScienceDesireCausesUnderstandingPleasureSituationWonderKnowledgeEffectsAwarenessIgnoranceParticularAriseIgnorantExceedAstonishmentGreatest PleasuresDesire For Knowledge Author:Thomas Aquinas