Chosen Ignorance Quotes

#1. Denial of our pattern of failure seems to be a kind of practical atheism or chosen ignorance among many believers and clergy.

Richard Rohr

#2. No matter how busy you make think you are you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance

Confucius

#3. No one was meant to see hell before they got there. No one should have to live with the devil. So many homilies on faith were ruined once you no longer required it for belief.

Maggie Stiefvater

#4. The principles of justice are chosen behind a veil of ignorance.

John Rawls

#5. I'm always telling my students that if they can't explain what they are doing, to their grandmothers, then they probably don't understand it themselves.

Gunter Blobel

#6. 'Expect nothing and hope for the best' is my mantra. A drama teacher called Joseph Blatchley told me that, and it's the best advice I've had. If you keep an open mind and don't expect too much, then you won't be disappointed.

Michelle Dockery

#7. One should be gentle with the ignorant, for they are the chosen of God.

Mark Twain

#8. Every day you make mistakes. And the key to making mistakes is first you have to make them, which means you're in the game. So don't be afraid of getting in the game.

Jerry Bruckheimer

#9. We will not forget that Liberty has made her home here, nor shall her chosen altar be neglected ... A stream of light shall pierce the darkness of ignorance and mans oppression until Liberty enlightens the world.

Grover Cleveland

#10. If in the darkness of ignorance, you don't recognize a person's true nature, look to see whom he has chosen for his leader.

Rumi

#11. In a World where people are surrounded by darkness, ignorance and fear, it is a sign of hope to be celebrating Islam's message of peace and light, and the last great Messenger, born and chosen to deliver them to all mankind.

Cat Stevens

#12. Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.

Clarence Darrow

#13. Telling cyclists to get out of the road is like telling women to get out of the voting booth and go back into the kitchen, or telling Japanese-American people to Go back to China!

BikeSnobNYC

#14. My life has been about living like a monk and looking like a priest so that people will come up to me and tell me their most appalling stories. They have to make their confession to somebody, and it might as well be me.

Chuck Palahniuk

#15. Of mankind in general, the parts are greater than the whole.

Aristotle.

#16. There is no society that protects freedom of religion more than secular democracies, because in societies where one religion rules, different viewpoints will be labelled as heresy and blasphemy. Why? Because the society is built on religion - not freedom for all points of view.

Flemming Rose

#17. They could be in possession of a majestic beauty, but as soon as their mouth betrayed them of the ignorance they'd chosen to allow into their dialect, the allure quickly turned into a repellant." --David Harmon (from "The Room" Copyright 2016 Brian C. Copper)

Brian C. Copper

#18. I know I need to be dependent on the Lord. I will try to do what he wants for the Young Women and to be a receptive servant while I'm on his errand.

Margaret D. Nadauld

#19. Any blunder committed in the past opens the avenue for the success of the future. However, the success of the future massively is fueled by the how positively the mistakes of the past are handled!

Israelmore Ayivor

#20. Prejudice is the pinnacle of self injected ignorance. It enables poor choices to be pre-chosen.

Tom Althouse

#21. Really? Kat's angry? Could it be because you're holding her captive?" The words tasted like acid.
"She attacked several members of my team."
A smile spread across my face. That's my girl.

Jennifer L. Armentrout