Ignorance in sentence

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And race is an illegitimate concept which our selves have created based on fear and ignorance.

When I lived in the USA, many of my American friends would be shocked at my ignorance at fancy Western dishes like lasagna, for instance.

These laws fly in the face of science, and they are grounded in prejudice and in ignorance and in a rewriting of tradition and a selective reading of religion.

And this story belongs not to any tribe but to all of humanity, to any sentient creature with the power of reason and the urge to persist in its being, for it requires only the convictions that life is better than death, health is better than sickness, abundance is better than want, freedom is better than coercion, happiness is better than suffering and knowledge is better than ignorance and superstition.

It was George Kimble, the geographer, who said that, "The only thing dark about Africa is our ignorance of it."

I could regale you with horror stories of ignorance over decades of experience as a forensic expert of just trying to get science into the courtroom.

They were effectively [doing] something in this brand image of creating a brand which can be franchised around the world, where there's poverty, ignorance and injustice.

Now to begin to overcome our ignorance of the role of brain chemistry in brain circuitry, it's helpful to work on what we biologists call "model organisms," animals like fruit flies and laboratory mice, in which we can apply powerful genetic techniques to molecularly identify and pinpoint specific classes of neurons, as you heard about in Allan Jones's talk this morning.

But worse, we were trapped by our collective ignorance.

This wasn't ignorance.

Ignorance is bliss, they say, but you can't put up with things like this."

And our ignorance about sleep is really quite profound.

And so what happened was that I started just becoming an editorial illustrator through, you know, sheer whatever, sheer ignorance.

And that's ignorance.

That's pure ignorance, and that ignorance has created a world that doesn't understand depression, that doesn't understand mental health.

We need to be the ones who are brave for what we believe in, because if there's one thing that I've come to realize, if there's one thing that I see as the biggest problem, it's not in building a world where we eliminate the ignorance of others.

My pain, more than anything in 19 years on this planet, has given me perspective, and my hurt, my hurt has forced me to have hope, have hope and to have faith, faith in myself, faith in others, faith that it can get better, that we can change this, that we can speak up and speak out and fight back against ignorance, fight back against intolerance, and more than anything, learn to love ourselves, learn to accept ourselves for who we are, the people we are, not the people the world wants us to be.

So we need to stop the ignorance, stop the intolerance, stop the stigma, and stop the silence, and we need to take away the taboos, take a look at the truth, and start talking, because the only way we're going to beat a problem that people are battling alone is by standing strong together, by standing strong together.

The question is whether we are willing to continue our support of a failed strategy based on our stubborn, blissful, voluntary ignorance at the cost of the deaths of thousands of our young.

Hard choices are hard not because of us or our ignorance; they're hard because there is no best option.

And this idea is nicely summarized by the British critic William Hazlitt, who wrote, "Prejudice is the child of ignorance."

Ignorance and denial are on the rise.

Now, psychoanalysts know very well that people surprisingly don't have passion for knowledge but passion for ignorance.

Now, this ignorance, however, is not very helpful on the level of the social.

Now, on top of facing ignorance, we are also facing today some kind of an obviousness.

I spent so much of my life telling people the things they wanted to hear instead of the things they needed to, told myself I wasn't meant to be anyone's conscience because I still had to figure out being my own, so sometimes I just wouldn't say anything, appeasing ignorance with my silence, unaware that validation doesn't need words to endorse its existence.

And as a result of this illiteracy, those few who do understand how power operates in civic life, those who understand how a bill becomes a law, yes, but also how a friendship becomes a subsidy, or how a bias becomes a policy, or how a slogan becomes a movement, the people who understand those things wield disproportionate influence, and they're perfectly happy to fill the vacuum created by the ignorance of the great majority.

So much of this ignorance, this civic illiteracy, is willful.

Well, this problem, this challenge, is a thing that we must now confront, and I believe that when you have this kind of disengagement, this willful ignorance, it becomes both a cause and a consequence of this concentration of opportunity of wealth and clout that I was describing a moment ago, this profound civic inequality.

We've moved from an era of ignorance about what causes cancer, in which cancer was commonly ascribed to personal psychological characteristics, to a modern molecular understanding of the true biological causes of cancer.

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