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Michel Foucault Philosopher, Social Theorist
Ignorance

"And more than once in the course of time, the same theme reappears: among the mystics of the fifteenth century, it has become the motif of the soul as a skiff, abandoned on the infinite sea of desires, in the sterile field of cares and ignorance, among the mirages of knowledge, amid the unreason of the world - a craft at the mercy of the sea's great madness, unless it throws out a solid anchor, faith, or raises its spiritual sails so that the breath of God may bring it to port."

Spiritual Ignorance Anchors
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Mortimer Adler Philosopher, Educator
Ignorance

"Ultimately there can be no disagreement between history, science, philosophy, and theology. Where there is disagreement, there is either ignorance or error."

Science Philosophy Ignorance
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Mortimer Adler Philosopher, Educator
Ignorance

"There are genuine mysteries in the world that mark the limits of human knowing and thinking. Wisdom is fortified, not destroyed, by understanding its limitations. Ignorance does not make a fool as surely as self-deception."

Thinking Wisdom Ignorance
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Horace Mann Educator
Ignorance

"Ignorance has been well represented under the similitude of a dungeon, where, though it is full of life, yet darkness and silence reign. But in society the bars and locks have been broken; the dungeon itself is demolished; the prisoners are out; they are in the midst of us. We have no security but to teach and renovate them."

Ignorance Silence Broken
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Paulo Freire Educator, Author
Ignorance

"In the banking concept of education, knowledge is a gift bestowed by those who consider themselves knowledgeable upon those whom they consider to know nothing... The teacher presents himself to his students as their necessary opposite; by considering their ignorance absolute, he justifies his own existence."

Teacher Ignorance Opposites
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Plato Philosopher
Ignorance

"For as there are misanthropists, or haters of men, there are also misologists, or haters of ideas, and both spring from the same cause, which is ignorance of the world."

Men Spring Ignorance
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Plato Philosopher
Ignorance

"Let no-one ignorant of geometry enter. Said to have been inscribed above the door of Plato's Academy."

Science Ignorance Plato
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Erich Fromm Psychologist, Philosopher
Ignorance

"Once they are through the process of education, most people lose the capacity of wondering, of being surprised. They feel they ought to know everything, and hence that it is a sign of ignorance to be surprised or puzzled by anything."

People Education Ignorance
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Ezra Pound Poet, Critic
Ignorance

"No teacher has ever failed from ignorance. That is empiric professional knowledge. Teachers fail because they cannot `handle the class.' Real education must ultimately be limited to men how INSIST on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding."

Real Teacher Ignorance
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Edith Wharton Novelist, Short Story Writer
Ignorance

"With a shiver of foreboding he saw his marriage becoming what most of the other marriages about him were: a dull association of material and social interests held together by ignorance on the one side and hypocrisy on the other."

Together Ignorance Hypocrisy
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Benjamin Disraeli Politician, Author
Ignorance

"The affections are the children of ignorance; when the horizon of our experience expands, and models multiply, love and admiration imperceptibly vanish."

Children Ignorance Horizon
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Dwight D. Eisenhower Military Leader, Politician
Ignorance

"We are so proud of our guarantees of freedom in thought and speech and worship, that, unconsciously, we are guilty of one of the greatest errors that ignorance can make - we assume our standard of values is shared by all other humans in the world."

Ignorance Errors Guarantees
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Clarice Lispector Novelist, Short Story Writer
Ignorance

"Ignorance of the law of irreducibility was no excuse. I could no longer excuse myself with the claim that I didn't know the law -- for knowledge of self and of the world is the law that, even though unattainable, cannot be broken, and no one can excuse himself by saying that he doesn't know it. . . . The renewed originality of the sin is this: I have to carry out my unknowing, I shall be sinning originally against life."

Self Law Ignorance
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