How To Use Ignorance In A Sentence

Ignorance of Sarah Palin offends anyone who is educated, it's an insult to the intellectual world, american intelligence. Palin plans 'aggressive' fundraising push
This construction of a new world order comes from a naïive and untraveled President, emboldened in his ignorance by advisors who have been plotting an aggressive Pax Americana ever since the Soviet bloc's collapse.
The biggest qualm I have with fair trade is its basic ignorance of comparative advantage.
The Go-Betweens reside in a strange hinterland full of candyfloss and loneliness that hovers between critical adoration and public ignorance.
There is a vast amount of ignorance. Times, Sunday Times

A recent customer survey showed widespread ignorance about the availability of organic food.
One in 10 asthma deaths in Scotland is due to inadequate treatment and widespread ignorance of the condition among health staff, a damning new report has revealed.
They displayed woeful ignorance of the safety rules.
Over the last couple of years, he had become impervious to the disrespect and ignorance of his classmates.
The more a man knows, the more he see his ignorance.
I maintain that this disaccording between his feelings of pleasure and pain and his rational judgment constitutes the very lowest depth of ignorance.
True it is, that one can scarcely call _that_ education which teaches woman everything except herself, -- _except_ the things that relate to her own peculiar womanly destiny, and, on plea of the holiness of ignorance, sends her without one word of just counsel into the temptations of life. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859
Learning is an antidote of ignorance. Learning liberates us by increasing our knowledge and enriching our minds and souls. Learning makes our lives more interesting, exciting and meaningful. Dr T.P.Chia
Learning is an antidote of ignorance. Learning liberates us by increasing our knowledge and enriching our minds and souls. Learning makes our lives more interesting, exciting and meaningful. Dr T.P.Chia
I am a lost little sheeple looking for some guidance out of the rocky ravine that is my ignorance.
Behind the question of course lies a deep ignorance of the reality of life in working class communities.
The magic word Literacy campaigns push back the boundaries of ignorance and give people more chance of controlling their own destiny.
Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in action.
I am oppressed by a nameless and mysterious suffering, .. my brain is darkened, -- my thoughts but half-formed and never wholly uttered, and I, -- I who once deemed human intelligence and reason all-supreme, all-clear, all-absolute, am now compelled to use that reason reasonlessly, and to work with that intelligence in helpless ignorance as to what end my mental toil shall serve! Ardath
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You shouldn't be able to become a cop if your mind is poisoned with racism and ignorance.
At the risk of showing my ignorance, how exactly does the Internet work?
I provide this here so that you may see the magnitude of the battle we are waging against ignorance and scientific illiteracy.
Once again Dembski demonstrates that the Design Inference is one based on elimination and our ignorance by arguing that to falsify ID's hypothesis it has to show how it evolved step by step.
The abiding, bred-in-the-bone ignorance of posh people about ordinary people – how we live, think, feel. How to learn to live with Tories
No bank executives should be allowed to plead ignorance. Times, Sunday Times
A recent customer survey showed widespread ignorance about the availability of organic food.
There is a vast amount of ignorance. Times, Sunday Times
Excuse my ignorance, but how does it actually work?
At the same time, through uncaring ignorance or malice, they brought about the extinction of numberless species of native flora and fauna.
No bank executives should be allowed to plead ignorance. Times, Sunday Times
revoke" -- the literary act after which, if he does it on purpose, you must not play with a man -- is speaking of authors and books which he has not read and cannot read in the original, while he leaves you ignorant of his ignorance. Matthew Arnold
He finds writing and directing arduous and resents financiers for what he sees as their wilful ignorance. Times, Sunday Times
We can get angry about it, complaining that the perfect language of our childhood is being corrupted by ignorance and carelessness, but we can't stop it happening.
The more a man knows, the more he see his ignorance.
The naivety, hateful ignorance and misguided arguments of his article were appalling to say the least.
All the while unbelievers laugh; men of weak faith are shaken; faith is uncertain; souls are drenched in ignorance, because adulterators of the word imitate the truth. NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works
And technology is most celebrated when it is most invisible—when the machinery is completely hidden, combining godlike effortlessness with blissful ignorance about the mechanisms that deliver our disburdened lives. The Secular Prophet
It all comes down to ignorance though, fundamentally, if a substantial minority of the population is unable to even attempt an informed debate without resorting to pachydermal vitriol, then you will unfortunately be left with a corrupt, morally bankrupt set of lunatics. McCain's Lying Has Gone Too Far, According To ... Karl Rove!
Salvini, a noted Italian democrat, was right on the mark when he observed: "The widespread ignorance of events is the main buttress of injustice". Dario Fo - Nobel Lecture
It is not enough to deflect problems by invoking due process or by pleading ignorance. Times, Sunday Times
He added that he had been a victim of ignorance and superstition himself as he was growing up in Hong Kong. Times, Sunday Times
It was to a large extent a self-education with the characteristic vices and virtues; when he came to power in 1949 he was still the brilliant autodidact, mixing shrewd unorthodox insights with astonishing ignorance.
Leaving the world a better place than we found it by reversing this downward spiral hatred and ignorance for our children and our grandchildren is truly the "Game Changer" that we all need to strive for. Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf: Why I'm Honored to Be Named a Huffington Post Game Changer
Blaming their own ignorance, they recount how in the past they would pump oil overboard or let oil collect in their boat's bilges.
By ignorance is pride increased; those most assume who know the least.
Unintentional ignorance can diminish or even remove the imputability of a grave offense. The Volokh Conspiracy » Ann Coulter, Christian Chauvinist:
Once we put everything that exists into these two categories, we now have two types of ignoranceone that mistakenly perceives persons to inherently exist and another that misconceives other phenomena to inherently exist. Becoming Enlightened
Common sense dictates that most people, awash in their own ignorance, far prefer to lecture than be lectured to.
Keynes's theory of labour market adjustment has fallen victim to widespread ignorance and neglect.
For some reason - whether through snobbery, ignorance, or the peculiarly British disease of self-deprecation - this valuable national treasure has been systematically trivialised and ridiculed over the years, to such an extent that today it remains almost unknown.
Ignorance over terminology is not the only issue here. Sarkozy Wants to Ban the “Burqa” : Law is Cool
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance. Confucius
As a result, the postmodern leftist lives in a kind of hermetically sealed ignorance that they call "education" or "sophistication. One Cosmos
With regard to life's origin ignorance is depicted as a gap which will eventaully be overcome with evidence backing mainstream conceptions - the promissory note. Another Version of CSI
All of our anger, resentment, and con flict come from our anguish and ignorance over needing to reclaim the love, security, and freedom that we know is our birthright. God is Not a Christian, Nor a Jew, Muslim, Hindu …
Most racial discrimination is based on ignorance.
In the sovereign workmanship of Nature herself, what garden of flowers without weeds? what orchard of trees without worms? what field of corn without cockle? what pond of fishes without frogs? what sky of light without darkness? what mirror of knowledge without ignorance? what man of earth without frailty? what commodity of the world without discommodity? The Common Reader, Second Series
Yes, and in telling about it I'll show my naive ignorance: 4, 5, 6 (?) years ago on a vacation through much of New England, we stopped at a bookstore and I noticed a "local" author shelf with some mass market pbs with "woodcut" - style black and red covers depicting Sleepy-Hollow-like scenes. A Touch of Genius
Just because you follow your elected Republican brethren in studious, determined ignorance doesn’t mean the things you’ve managed not to learn don’t exist. Matthew Yglesias » Myths of 1996
Also, heat radiation affects the polar caps more than one way or maybe my ignorance in thermal-dynamics is too apparent. Environmentalists On Hunters
The ignorance of the American people regarding foreign affairs never continues to flabbergast me. CNN Poll: Support for Afghanistan war drops
As to his reference to rugby league, I plead ignorance and will not interfere with private griefs.
Meditation brings wisdom; lack of mediation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom. Buddha
For those who remain in ignorance, he was the greatest stand-up comedian of all time.
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To truncate the name Sholem Aleichem to Aleichem, as if it were his last name, betrays a deep misunderstanding, if not ignorance, of the meaning and nuances of Sholem Aleichem's pen name. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IX No 1
I accepted my fear, my ignorance, my anxieties - indicated by the fact that I did not know what the term "layette" meant. Girl alfar
Error and ignorance in regard to the object or circumstances of the act to be placed, affect the judgment of the intellect and consequently the morality and imputability of the act. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
This is an attempt to bring us to a better understanding of the Second Law of Thermodynamics, which the creationists - through willful ignorance - gleefully flaunt as their disproof of science.
This construction of a new world order comes from a naïive and untraveled President, emboldened in his ignorance by advisors who have been plotting an aggressive Pax Americana ever since the Soviet bloc's collapse.
Communal forces thrive on the crass ignorance of the masses concerning the essentials of their faith.
Much of the difficulty of identification is caused by an almost complete ignorance of what we are looking for.
The lotus is significant to Theravada buddhism because the plant blooms out from the murky waters of a lake, representing enlightenment from ignorance. Short Fiction: Snowflake Angel
I was ashamed by my ignorance of soil, vine orientation, geology and earth sciences. Times, Sunday Times
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity---Martin Luther King Jr, American civil rights activist.
It is in fact the dark evil of laziness and ignorance disguised as an altruistic urge and that is why you rightly feel anxious!
Therewithal she rightly apprehends the danger Bertram is in from the wordy, cozening squirt, the bedizened, scoundrelly dandiprat, who has so beguiled his youth and ignorance. Shakespeare His Life Art And Characters
Yes, knowledge is better than ignorance, but isn't North America awash with sexual information?
The missing apostrophe from area's you might put down to a typing error; the missing hyphens from well-maintained, 5th-floor, and ready-to-move-into you might ascribe to the pandemic mishandling of those simple punctuation marks; the misrelated clause at the beginning and the dubiously related clause at the end are not so easily shrugged off: they are the faults of pretension rather than ignorance, and the illiteracy of pretentiousness is the vulgarest and most reprehensible. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIII No 2
We vote in knowledge, however, not ignorance, knowledge of the larger political conspectus.
his ignorance was painfully obvious
One is amazed at the extent of the media's ignorance and credulity.
An historical failure as a Nation to protect our selves from the greatest threat of all, extreme ignorance, hubris and greed in power. whispered on the whirlwind ..... Brennan: Cheney wrong to criticize Obama
Their rarity made them targets of male prejudice and ignorance. Times, Sunday Times
The selected candidate will be responsible for CREEPS Inc. corporate messaging and branding to advance sales of our cheap to manufacture, high profit margin line of big name consumable products such as ANXIETY, FEAR and TOTAL IGNORANCE as CREEPS continues its decades of success to crush and destroy the capacity of ailing competitors selling OPTIMISM built using expensive High Hopes processes based on inclusive collaborative methods that prop up the menace of human decency and shared values. Progressive Bloggers
I'm guessing proponents of creationism were eager to shed this image of backwoods ignorance opponents tend to associate with their theories, and leaped to embrace this new spin.
His ignorance is surprising.
I mean look at how they feigned ignorance about Obama's use of the word refine to somehow come out with the meaning that he was switching his position, when even the most cursory understanding of the word means to be more precise. Hillary Explains Vote Against FISA Cave
He that boasts of his knowledge proclaims his ignorance.
Ignorance is the mother of supstition.
The uncertainty and ignorance of things to come, makes the world new unto us by unexpected emergencies; whereby we pass not our days in the trite road of affairs affording no novity; for the novelizing spirit of man lives by variety, and the new faces of things. Christian Morals
Excuse my ignorance, can you please tell me who Mr Boas is?
For example, it requires considerable communicative skill to be able to attribute uncertainty to the current state of medical knowledge rather than to one's own ignorance.
It's been intoned mindlessly so many times since that no one ever stops to consider the utter ignorance of the statement.
For the speaker in Christmas-Eve man's mind was the image of God's, reflecting trace for trace his absolute knowledge; for Francis Furini the bare fact of his own existence is all he knows, a narrow rock-spit of knowledge enisled in a trackless ocean of ignorance. Robert Browning
You must have been playing this ‘ignorance is bliss’ game for a while now if you believe that we all have equal rights and opportunities here.
P.M. to my Samoan lesson from Whitmee — I think I shall learn from him, he does not fool me with cockshot rules that are demolished next day, but professes ignorance like a man; the truth is, the grammar has still to be expiscated — dined with Vailima Letters
Baseball people refer to catchers' equipment as 'the tools of ignorance,' a phrase that sounds pejorative but is meant respectfully. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
The principal view in this disquisition is to enable those, who have already learnt to draw, to make themselves easily masters of painting in any manner they may choose; by which assistance many persons of genius, who, from ignorance of the nature and use of colours, might be deterred from it, may be both induced & enabled to attempt painting successfully, and bring those talents into practice, which would be otherwise lost to the public and themselves. The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe
My ignorance of his demise may have caused offence, and I apologize for that.
He said: 'There should be no room for that kind of stupidity and ignorance in sport and society. The Sun
Despite the statement, an embarrassed Pentagon decided to pretend ignorance.
To ber proud of learning, is the greatest ignorance.
The last Quebec Supermarket chain which displayed a similar ignorance and arrogance about Ontario that was called "Maxi Plus", bankrupted itself seeking to "colonize" Toronto. Metro Inc. plans to cancel Dominion Name in Ontario at the prospective expense of shareholders
Nice to see the newspaper's subs parading their gleeful ignorance of elementary meteorology, just in case any of us remained in doubt.
The fashion for equating chimps with children is based on a degraded view of humanity and an ignorance about animals.
I don't think that we can do much about media sensationalism or the scientific ignorance of many journalists.
There is still widespread ignorance about this disease.
The first Háshim got his name from crumbling bread into the Saríd or brewis of the Meccan pilgrims during “The Ignorance.” The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Not brazened-it-out, or wrapped-himself-in-pridefulness (the surest sign of struggle), simply free, by what conjunction of insight or ignorance I am still at a loss to imagine, from the universal misery of fitting-in - the-body. Two Poems
This is not caused by evil, but by simple ignorance.
The only truly dangerous thing is ignorance. Times, Sunday Times
But now, (said he,) the avarice of preastis, and the ignorance of thair office, has caused it altogitther to be vilipended; [78] for the preast, (said he,) whose dewitie and office is to pray for the people, standis up on Sounday, and cryes, 'Ane hes tynt The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6)
Freudian (cf. "Die Zelle") than in Jungian pan-mystical terms of lower ego versus higher Self, or ignorance versus Wisdom. Kafka and the Coincidence of Opposites
I pretended complete ignorance of the French language, he therefore asked me in Italian minutely about my affairs, and how I could attempt to travel home without any money or goods, to defray the expenses of the journey. Travels in Nubia
It is better to sit down in a modest ignorance, and rest contented with the natural blessing of our own reasons, than by the uncertain knowledge of this life with sweat and vexation, which death gives every fool gratis, and is an accessary of our glorification. Religio Medici
It sure looks as if he's faking ignorance to try to sucker her into making some outlandish claim about how the memo was a Democratic plant.
I used to know a guy who said, ‘There is no problem so subtle or complex that it can't be solved by brute force and ignorance.’
Ignorance has not been specific to any generation. lepid, it has always been thus. TIME.com: Top Stories
The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you didn't know anything about. Wayne Dyer
While Christianity claims to have gradually lifted humanity out of dark ignorance of a dark pre-Christian world, the truth is opposite.
Nor did he attack peaceable Cheyennes in ignorance.
(Night cl.), “voilà une grande ignorance de ne savoir pas que l’on presente la main droite à un médecin et non pas la gauche” — whose exclusive use all travellers in the East must know. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
In ignorance, they seek to belittle it and minimise its importance to the individual.
The guessing game over the commandante's health and influence? diplomats in Havana admit ignorance over the hermetic regime's inner workings? recalled the inexact science of Kremlinology, which tracked Politburo dynamics during Red Square parades. Cuba left guessing on Revolution Day as Fidel Castro misses big parade
Also, forgive my ignorance here, but has anyone taken prisoner and sent to Cuba been charged yet?
Staring with ‘Rolls and Waves of Ignorance’, Herren produces a song based on a series of orchestral swells, a smooth saxophone, and a gently plucked bass.
I mean honestly I don't have any problem with Jews, but I do have a problem with the ignorance of those who comfort themselves with the propaganda spewed out by the Israeli government and then expurge this same propaganda onto those of us who aren't so easily brainwashed. WHAT REALLY HAPPENED
She made the man blest who had taken away her children, and enriched her bereaver with a present: and took away nothing to make up the slaughter of her sons save the reproach of ignorance and the loss of goods. The Danish History, Books I-IX
Education is the best weapon against ignorance. Learning is the best way to sharpen the mind. Dr T.P.Chia
He deeply explored notions of love, Europe, and identity, and was a polyglot who insisted that linguistic proficiency was the key to overcoming misunderstandings and ignorance.
Fear is a product of ignorance.
How much of the exaggerated information on the then new divorce laws which Beaucock imparted to his listener was the result of ignorance, and how much of dupery, was never ascertained. The Woodlanders
The anti-contagionist, in acknowledging his ignorance, leaves the question open to examination; but the contagionist has solved the problem to his own mind, and closed the field of investigation, without, however, ceasing to denounce the antagonist who would disturb a conclusion which has given him so much contentment. Letters on the Cholera Morbus. Containing ample evidence that this disease, under whatever name known, cannot be transmitted from the persons of those labouring under it to other individuals, by contact—through the medium of inanimate substances—or throug
A recent customer survey showed widespread ignorance about the availability of organic food.
Bedizen not yourselves with the bedizenment of the Time of Ignorance. Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side
In my ignorance, I had supposed that Egyptian civilisation spread up the Nile, stumbled on the first of the cataracts and petered out in the great loop in which we were travelling.
This is a city that struggles unsuccessfully to shake the traditions of backwardness, authoritarianism, ignorance, corruption, and social inequality.
Most of their priestcraft was a vulgar imposition upon the ignorance and credulity of the common people. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 03
There are extenuating circumstances, her ignorance, her naivety, her youth (not a crime, one character tries to reassure her), and another's scheming and deception.
To argue that solutions only demean the grandeur of human ignorance?
Thus his playing, metrical but superficial and arrhythmic, astounds not for its virtuosity, but for precisely the opposite: an ignorance of what rhythm is all about.
To compare that kind of long-term stonewalling, ignorance, and denial to the immediate actions you and/or Dr Hunter seem to expect from people like Steve and Hans is ridiculous. Blogs on Barton Letters « Climate Audit
To disfranchise women is deliberately to turn from knowledge and grope in ignorance. DARKWATER
So far as legal aid is concerned, would your Lordship forgive my ignorance, I still have to ask for detail, an order for detailed assessment.
The soul is 10,000 times more effulgent than the sun, but the covering of ignorance is so strong that we appear to be like dead matter.
Ignorance will be the dupe of cunning, and passion the slave of sophistry and declamation... Edwin Eisendrath: It's the Democracy, Stupid!
Even among those not so badly affected, ignorance about radiation produces powerful if sometimes irrational fear.
The makers of meat extracts and other foods, either from their own ignorance of modern research or their wish to take advantage of the lack of knowledge and prejudice of the public, call proteid matter alone nourishment. The Chemistry of Food and Nutrition
Is it ignorance or apathy? Times, Sunday Times
Is this a question of ignorance on the part of the media, unsophisticated reporting, or is it a question of letting personal antipathy and personal notions seep into the coverage?
The transition from a drover to a Carmelite is not in the least violent; the one turns into the other without much effort; the fund of ignorance common to the village and the cloister is a preparation ready at hand, and places the boor at once on the same footing as the monk: a little more amplitude in the smock, and it becomes a frock. Les Miserables
But common to all of them is a notable - almost wilful - ignorance about handling money day to day. Times, Sunday Times
By ignorance is pride increased; those most assume who know the least.
And that ignorance is being exploited by the reactionary opponents of this disruptive and lifesaving innovation. Times, Sunday Times
But what shall we do with our inner Fire, our inner Urge, our inner Intensity to surpass all my limitations, all our animal wildness that makes us slaves, our unquenched eagerness to surpass all darkness and ignorance, and our askesis to receive the Help of any higher Power in our difficulties, in our sufferings and in the matters of death and diseases? Should we then go back to the caves! Can we stop Evolution?
The tamasic category includes meat and is attributed to a state of darkness, ignorance, lethargy and inactivity.
There is such a great deal of ignorance of mental phenomena and physical phenomena.
A quick college course in statistical analysis would cure you of your, uh, pardon the harshness, IGNORANCE. Think Progress » ThinkFast: January 12, 2010
We must go on to do all in our power to conquer the doubts and the fears, the ignorance and the greed, which made this horror possible.
Adoption of modern agricultural practices and use of technology is inadequate, hampered by ignorance of such practices, high costs and impracticality in the case of small land holdings.
George "Your use of the word blitzkrieg shows either a total ignorance of military tactics or a total ignorance of exactly what the IDF did in Gaza and and what speed. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
Sooner than such an inversion of social order, I would welcome even Turkish bondage; for surely utter ignorance is infinitely preferable to erudite unwomanliness.
She shrieked and wailed but professed ignorance. Times, Sunday Times
Meditation brings wisdom; lack of mediation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom. Buddha
But the blitheness with which he tossed it off indicates an ignorance—perhaps willful—of a deep confusion in the American character on the subject of using drugs simply to make life easier. MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION
Can we drop the alibi of ignorance - the endless insistence that we did not know - and resist the seductive lures of solipsism, of denial, of dissociation?
In situations involving knowledge far less frivolous than a television programme, I've been astounded time and time again by ignorance and insularity.
‘O Allah, I swear by Thy Greatness and Thy Glory, I meant not through my disobedience to transgress against Thee; for indeed I am not ignorant of Thee; but my fault is one Thou didst foreordain to me from eternity without beginning; 357 so do Thou pardon my transgression, for indeed I disobeyed Thee of my ignorance!’ The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
To associate its spiritual or "sacerdotal" function with its national one "is to be considered as ... a mis-growth of ignorance and oppression. Introduction: Irony and Clerisy
Of course, our ignorance is so profound that little can be said for certain.
Either Runcible knew of their efforts and quietly endorsed them—in which case he was a screeching hypocrite—or else they acted without his knowledge, in which case his craftiness was a sham and he lived in quiet ignorance. Sir Apropos of Nothing
Ignorance of the law is no excuse of breaking it.
Ignorance and superstition prevent them from benefiting from modern medicine.
Otherwise, put on a wise face and disguise your baffled ignorance. Times, Sunday Times
The collective salvation of our civilisation requires the inner transformation of every individual from the ignorance of materialism and individualism to the Gnosis of collective spiritual awareness.
To ber proud of learning, is the greatest ignorance.
The important thing to note is that these criticisms run up against the source of religious belief in the ignorance which induces men to believe the world to be governed providentially, that is, by God's purposes and for man's benefit. Dictionary of the History of Ideas
It is mostly our own carelessness, ignorance, gullibility and cheeseparing that allows criminals, hooligans and others to run riot. Times, Sunday Times
He was to take the timber at a valuation, and it is a sufficient proof of his ignorance of these matters, that he really did not know the difference between a hazel bush and an oak tree; for, although he was a very clever and an ingenious man in his way, yet he actually applied to me, to know how they would measure such _small timber_ as that which he pointed out to me, which was nothing more than a _hazel bush! Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 2
He managed to acquire a thin veneer of knowledge to mask his real ignorance.
It is not enough to deflect problems by invoking due process or by pleading ignorance. Times, Sunday Times
Ignorance is the mother of impudence.
To John in FL: Thanks for reminding us why FL is the decrepit dingleberry hanging from America's southern ignorance. doug Obama says 'justice will be done' in Times Square bombing
Happiness which is obtained with ‘delusion from beginning to end’ and that arises from laziness and fantasy is achieved in the mode of tamas or ignorance.
Vividly immersing audiences in the gritty, crime-ridden conditions in which the aliens are forced to live, first-time director Neill Blomkamp inspires reflection on poverty, ignorance and ostracism without resorting to preachiness. Heart-pumping, alien-laden 'District 9' is sci-fi at its finest
But, then, ignorance of the facts is a great aid to belief in myths.
But, to have done with these episodical observations, let me return to the more specious slavery which chains the very soul of woman, keeping her for ever under the bondage of ignorance. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
I have my reasons for this of course but suffice it to say that his ignorance of certain intel community practices and internal history is underscored by his personal assertions contrary to the reality. Pat rogers
Again, I think the absolute basis of all prejudice is ignorance and generalization.
Ignorance is up there with dishonesty on his list of pet hates, and with good reason.
All these ideologies although they reflected in fact the sentiment directly due to social antitheses, that is to say, the real class struggles, with a lofty sense of justice and a profound devotion to an ideal, nevertheless all reveal ignorance of the true causes against which they hurled themselves by a an act of revolt spontaneous and often heroic. Essays on the Materialistic Conception of History
At first sight, the Atlas of World Art edited by John Onians (Laurence King £75) is a truly original and endlessly enlightening book, the answer to numberless prayers born of ignorance.
An 'when you're harpin' on the deep canyon that lies between Knowledge an 'Ignorance, it don't pay to forget that Politeness is a mighty easy bridge to rear, an' one that's always safe. The Boy With the U. S. Foresters
Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance. Hippocrates
The public's ignorance of the idiocies endemic to the EOIR's business as usual and the calamities these entail is no accident. The Media Consortium: Weekly Diaspora: Lawless Judges, Immigrant Soldiers, and Deportee Pardons
But it is easier to plead ignorance than to try to get to the bottom of it. Times, Sunday Times
Instead of using the experiments and expressions of the ancient Savants and thinkers as a basis for our future struggle against ignorance and to try to find out a solution to this mysterious problem, we – lethargical as we have proved to be – raise the hue and cry of faith, unflinching and unwavering faith to their versions and thus are guilty of stagnation in human progress. Archive 2006-08-01
I think his ignorance and obliviousness for considering other possibilities is his weakness here. Think Progress » Congress Explicitly Said War Resolution Did Not Expand Executive Power

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