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For most normal people, politics is a distant, occasionally irritating fog. ~ Tony Blair
Rational Ignorance quotes by Tony Blair
Discernment can be described as the ability to find the root of the matter, and it relies on intuition as well as rational thought. ~ John C. Maxwell
Rational Ignorance quotes by John C. Maxwell
Anything you don't want to deal with can always be written off as being "in the past" and ignored, but in doing so, you sweep it under a rug where it doesn't go away with time – it becomes time itself, and takes on the illusion of life as we think we know it. ~ A.J. Darkholme
Rational Ignorance quotes by A.J. Darkholme
Great things are accomplished by those who do not feel the impotence of man. This is a precious gift. ~ Paul Valery
Rational Ignorance quotes by Paul Valery
If I were surrounded by angels who were purely rational and had no inclinations at all, I couldn't do anything for them. I couldn't make them happy; I couldn't make them sad, I would be entirely useless as a moral agent. ~ Thomas Pogge
Rational Ignorance quotes by Thomas Pogge
I find few things more personally enriching than exploring the parameters of my own ignorance. ~ Steve Maraboli
Rational Ignorance quotes by Steve Maraboli
No human being can be more human than another human being. I liberate you from my ignorance. ~ Maya Angelou
Rational Ignorance quotes by Maya Angelou
We are all born with a powerful herd instinct and it can force otherwise rational people to act in inexplicable ways. ~ Paul Rusesabagina
Rational Ignorance quotes by Paul Rusesabagina
The Christian worldview, contra-postmodernism, understands language not as a Self-referential, merely human and ultimately arbitrary system of signs that is reducible to contingent cultural factors, but it has the gift of a rational God entrusted to beings made in his own image and likeness. ~ Douglas Groothuis
Rational Ignorance quotes by Douglas Groothuis
Popularity is no boast. From politics to fashion, history has shown popularity is, too often, just a loud celebration of a common ignorance. ~ Kerry Cue
Rational Ignorance quotes by Kerry Cue
The prime goal of censorship is to promote ignorance, whether it is done via lying and bowdlerized school texts or by attacking individual books. ~ Felice Picano
Rational Ignorance quotes by Felice Picano
Socialism's failure in the former Soviet Union and in the other socialist countries stands as a clean and unquestionable warning as to which path any rational and sane people should never follow again. Government planning brought poverty and ruin ... Unfortunately, America is not absorbing the lessons that should be learned from the socialist experience and, instead, is following the same path of destruction. ~ Richard Ebeling
Rational Ignorance quotes by Richard Ebeling
A straight face is an ignorant man's attempt to appear knowledgeable. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Rational Ignorance quotes by Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Easy for them to keep their youth who will never learn a lesson ... ~ Sigrid Undset
Rational Ignorance quotes by Sigrid Undset
People have said, 'Let's build bridges,' and frankly, I want to do more than that. I would like break to the walls of ignorance between East and West. ~ Al-Mayassa Bint Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani
Rational Ignorance quotes by Al-Mayassa Bint Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani
If Christians always seemed to be the most intelligent and the most righteous of men, I'd be a skeptic. ~ Criss Jami
Rational Ignorance quotes by Criss Jami
I'm not trying to frighten you, but only a fool makes predictions based on ignorance; I am not that sort of fool. ~ Robert A. Heinlein
Rational Ignorance quotes by Robert A. Heinlein
Truths turn into dogmas the instant that they are disputed. Thus every man who utters a doubt defines a religion. And the scepticism of our time does not really destroy the beliefs, rather it creates them; gives them their limits and their plain and defiant shape. We who are Liberals once held Liberalism lightly as a truism. Now it has been disputed, and we hold it fiercely as a faith. We who believe in patriotism once thought patriotism to be reasonable, and thought little more about it. Now we know it to be unreasonable, and know it to be right. We who are Christians never knew the great philosophic common sense which inheres in that mystery until the anti-Christian writers pointed it out to us. The great march of mental destruction will go on. Everything will be denied. Everything will become a creed. It is a reasonable position to deny the stones in the street; it will be a religious dogma to assert them. It is a rational thesis that we are all in a dream; it will be a mystical sanity to say that we are all awake. Fires will be kindled to testify that two and two make four. Swords will be drawn to prove that leaves are green in summer. We shall be left defending, not only the incredible virtues and sanities of human life, but something more incredible still, this huge impossible universe which stares us in the face. We shall fight for visible prodigies as if they were invisible. We shall look on the impossible grass and the skies with a strange courage. We shall be of tho ~ G.K. Chesterton
Rational Ignorance quotes by G.K. Chesterton
As a basic step of self-esteem, learn to treat as the mark of a cannibal any man's demand for your help. To demand it is to claim that your life is his property – and loathsome as such claim might be, there's something still more loathsome: your agreement. Do you ask if it's ever proper to help another man? No- if he claims it as his right or as a moral duty that you owe him. Yes- if such is your own desire based on your own selfish pleasure in the value of his person and his struggle. Suffering as such is not a value, only man's fight against suffering is. If you choose to help a man who suffers, do it only on the ground of his virtues, of his fight to recover, of his rational record, or of the fact that he suffers unjustly; then your action is still trade, and his virtue is the payment for your help. But to help a man who has no virtues, to help him on the ground of his suffering as such, to accept his faults, his need, as a claim – is to accept the mortgage of a zero on your values. A man who has no virtues is a hater of existence who acts on the premise of death; to help him is to sanction his evil and to support his career of destruction. Be it only a penny you will miss or a kindly smile he has not earned, a tribute to a zero is treason to life and to all those who struggle to maintain it. It is of such pennies and smiles that the desolation of your world was made. ~ Ayn Rand
Rational Ignorance quotes by Ayn Rand
Upon this law, depend the natural rights of mankind, the supreme being gave existence to man, together with the means of preserving and beatifying that existence. He endowed him with rational faculties, by the help of which, to discern and pursue such things, as were consistent with his duty and interest, and invested him with an inviolable right to personal liberty, and personal safety. ~ Alexander Hamilton
Rational Ignorance quotes by Alexander Hamilton
good is what we built when it leads to this? What good is knowledge when stupidity and ignorance will always trump it? Well, ~ David D. Hammons
Rational Ignorance quotes by David D. Hammons
To some extent the romantic condemnation of rationality stems from the very effectiveness of rationality in uplifting men from primitive conditions. ~ Robert M. Pirsig
Rational Ignorance quotes by Robert M. Pirsig
Sadly, cowardice, ignorance, indifference, greed and fear, rule over the world ~ Den Sjo
Rational Ignorance quotes by Den Sjo
Human beings were so full of emotion. That was the problem. They could kill for a reason that to them felt like the only reason and to the rest of the rational thinking population felt like no reason at all. ~ Paula Daly
Rational Ignorance quotes by Paula Daly
The widest cause of secularization may be the steady change of thinking so that there is the expectation that reason and a consideration of cause and effect will help with explanations. Supernatural power began to be removed from explanations of the process of life or society in the seventeenth century, and although there may be a nod towards astrology or the crossed finger today, superstition is not seriously used in decision making ...
Scientific thinking, which similarly developed in the seventeenth century, has been influential in bringing this change. We now see that tornadoes and earthquakes have rational explanations in terms of climatology and seismology rather than as divine punishments. Most people when deciding whether to take a new job, embark on a divorce, or simply plan a holiday will not seek divine guidance, but rather discuss with themselves or others the issues of cause and effect. ~ Jim Herrick
Rational Ignorance quotes by Jim Herrick
To understand those who are culturally and historically different from us – rather than resorting to such labels as 'evil empire', 'fundamentalist' and 'terrorist' to mask our ignorance – is a matter of urgency. The greatest hubris is to ask why 'they' are not like 'us', to accept our cultural biases lazily and without question, and to frame the problem in terms of 'what went wrong? ~ Caroline Finkel
Rational Ignorance quotes by Caroline Finkel
I will only add, in justice to men, that though to the larger and more trifling part of the sex, imbecility in females is a great enhancement of their personal charms, there is a portion of them too reasonable and too well informed themselves to desire anything more in woman than ignorance. ~ Jane Austen
Rational Ignorance quotes by Jane Austen
Who has forbidden women to engage in private and individual studies? Have they not a rational soul as men do? ... I have this inclination to study and if it is evil I am not the one who formed me thus - I was born with it and with it I shall die. ~ Juana Ines De La Cruz
Rational Ignorance quotes by Juana Ines De La Cruz
Willingly or not we come to terms with power, forgetting that we are all in the ghetto, that the ghetto is walled in, that outside the ghetto reign the lords of death, and that close by the train is waiting. by Primo Levi in Drowned ~ Primo Levi
Rational Ignorance quotes by Primo Levi
An ignorant man, who is not fool enough to meddle with his clock, is however sufficiently confident to think he can safely take to pieces, and put together at his pleasure, a moral machine of another guise, importance and complexity, composed of far other wheels, and springs, and balances, and counteracting and co-operating powers. Men little think how immorally they act in rashly meddling with what they do not understand. Their delusive good intention is no sort of excuse for their presumption. They who truly mean well must be fearful of acting ill. ~ Edmund Burke
Rational Ignorance quotes by Edmund Burke
True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it. ~ Karl Popper
Rational Ignorance quotes by Karl Popper
If there is any society where the leaders lack the knowledge and the importance of justice, then oppression will be a common neighbor of the citizens. ~ Sunday Adelaja
Rational Ignorance quotes by Sunday Adelaja
Ignorance is the ugliest devil, knowledge is the loveliest angel. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Rational Ignorance quotes by Matshona Dhliwayo
...[M]an and generally any rational being exists as an end in himself, not merely as a means to be arbitrarily used by this or that will, but in all his actions, whether they concern himself or other rational beings, must always be regarded at the same time as an end... [R]ational beings... are called persons, because their very nature points them out as ends in themselves, that is, as something which must not be used merely as means, and so far therefore restricts freedom of action (and is an object of respect). ~ Immanuel Kant
Rational Ignorance quotes by Immanuel Kant
Anytime that is 'betwixt and between' or transitional is the faeries' favorite time. They inhabit transitional spaces: the bottom of the garden, existing in a space between manmade cultivation and wilderness. Look for them in the space between nurture and nature, they are to be found at all boarders and boundaries, or on the edges of water where it is neither land nor lake, neither path nor pond. They come when we are half-asleep. They come at moments when we least expect them; when our rational mind balances with the fluid irrational. ~ Brian Froud
Rational Ignorance quotes by Brian Froud
I have chosen a life that depends on one's awareness that every breath may be his last, every step may bring his downfall, and every word may stir betrayal. In truth, I must live in conscious ignorance of the mere thread that holds my life aloft, trusting that God alone has the power to sever it, and that He will do so only when my work on earth is complete. ~ Nicole Sager
Rational Ignorance quotes by Nicole Sager
In the first period religious life appears as a form of discipline which the individual or a whole people must accept as an unconditional command without any rational understanding of the ultimate meaning and purpose of that command. ~ Muhammad Iqbal
Rational Ignorance quotes by Muhammad Iqbal
That's maturity-when you realize that you've finally arrived at a state of ignorance as profound as your parents. ~ Barbara Mertz
Rational Ignorance quotes by Barbara Mertz
Whoever said ignorance was bliss was shortsighted. ~ Jeaniene Frost
Rational Ignorance quotes by Jeaniene Frost
Only locks in life are what you think you know, but don't. Accept your ignorance and try something new. ~ Dennis Vickers
Rational Ignorance quotes by Dennis Vickers
My ignorance is becoming a theme." --Mare Barrow ~ Victoria Aveyard
Rational Ignorance quotes by Victoria Aveyard
Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance. ~ Arnold H. Glasow
Rational Ignorance quotes by Arnold H. Glasow
A nation under a well regulated government, should permit none to remain uninstructed. It is monarchical and aristocratical government only that requires ignorance for its support. ~ Thomas Paine
Rational Ignorance quotes by Thomas Paine
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