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Sentences starting with ignorance

Ignorance had been her only peril in the past, as it had been the cause of her unhappy connection with Jasper Kimber. [11]
Ignorance of the evil in the world is, however, not to be predicated of those who are familiar only with the great masterpieces of literature, for if they are masterpieces, little or great, they exhibit human nature in all its aspects. [4]
Ignorance of foreign affairs, and of economic science, the American people have in times past winked at; but they will not always wink at it. [4]

Sentences ending with ignorance

During these six years I have been living a life of peaceful ignorance. [5]
His loose grammar was the fruit of careless habit, not ignorance. [5]
He said he was not worthy to sit in the company of men like these; that he had been silent from admiration; that he had been silent from another cause also--silent from shame--silent from ignorance! [5]
Jack, you ought to be ashamed of yourself--you ought to be ashamed of such criminal ignorance. [5]
During the offering the priests sang prayers in a loud voice, enumerated the virtues of their king, and, that blame might in no case light on the head of their ruler, made his bad advisers responsible for every deadly sin committed in ignorance. [10]
It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. [4]
Some of their superstitions have lingered in practical medicine to the present day, but chemistry has grown wise enough to confess the fact of absolute ignorance. [3]
I never heard such ignorance. [5]
The tons of sentiment I have wasted on that unprincipled humbug in my ignorance! [5]
To him they seemed opinions inherited, not formed, and in most cases were nothing more than the result of prejudice working upon ignorance. [4]

Short sentences using ignorance

Naught but her own ignorance. [10]
My trespass came of ignorance. [5]

Sentences containing ignorance two or more times

Americans were overwhelmed with questions, taunts, threats, misrepresentations, the outgrowth of ignorance, and ignoring worse than ignorance, from every class of Englishmen. [6]
His view of democracy was ignorance controlling ignorance. [11]

More example sentences with the word ignorance in them

I mean that you must be prepared to tell George, if he recovers, that you have abandoned your attitude toward the workmen, that you are willing to recognize their union, settle the strike, and go even further than in their ignorance they ask. [9]
Be thankful that you have once known them, and remember that even the learned ignorance of a nomenclature is something to have mastered, and may furnish pegs to hang facts upon which would otherwise have strewed the floor of memory in loose disorder. [3]
The Emperor was with the army to encourage it, but his presence and ignorance of what steps to take, and the enormous number of advisers and plans, destroyed the first army's energy and it retired. [2]
Not all newspapers which make money are good, for some succeed by catering to the lowest tastes of respectable people, and to the prejudice, ignorance, and passion of the lowest class; but, as a rule, the successful journal pecuniarily is the best journal. [4]
Besides the variations which can be grouped with more or less probability under the foregoing heads, there is a large class of variations which may be provisionally called spontaneous, for to our ignorance they appear to arise without any exciting cause. [1]
He is crucified wherever his brothers are slain without cause; he lies buried wherever man, made in his Maker's image, is entombed in ignorance lest he should learn the rights which his Divine Master gave him! [6]
It is as well to leave him, at present, in blissful ignorance of his future. [9]
Mr. Dodd knew well enough that this was not ignorance on the part of Mr. Graves, whose position in the matter dad been very well defined in the two sentences he had spoken. [9]
Mr. Edison is wasting his time in objective experiments, while we are in the deepest ignorance as to our electric personality or our personal electricity. [4]
He said he was ashamed of his ignorance, but that he had never been confronted with the question before during the fifty years and more that he had spent in Australia, and so he had never happened to get interested in the matter. [5]
This pure mind was an awful touchstone of conduct, and there was a fear that Evelyn's ignorance of life would prevent her from making the proper allowances. [4]
But Herr Ernst was a cautious man, and when his companion imposed the condition that his son should be kept in ignorance of the loan, he was puzzled. [10]
It would save us a great deal of the humiliation your reprehensible ignorance causes us. [5]
Her dress was trimmed with what we simply mistook for scalps, and supposed it was in honor of the nation; but we blushed at our ignorance on discovering that it was a gorgeous trimming of marten tips. [4]
Afterward, when I tried to recall what he said, I laughed at his surprising ignorance of the question at issue, and wondered where my wits could have gone that I allowed myself to be dazzled and turned aside at every corner. [9]
I have tried to take into account your point of view, which is naturally restricted, your pardonable ignorance of what business men, who wish to do their duty by Church and State, have to contend with. [9]
It is pitiable to see you, sir, a well-spoken and prepossessing stranger, making such an enormous pow-wow here about a subject concerning which your ignorance is perfectly humiliating! [5]
I cannot promise to do more than to select a few of the points of contact between our ignorance and our knowledge which present particular interest in the existing state of our physiological acquisitions. [3]
Such variations appear to arise from the same unknown causes acting on the cerebral organisation, which induce slight variations or individual differences in other parts of the body; and these variations, owing to our ignorance, are often said to arise spontaneously. [1]
He helped her thus in a dozen unobtrusive ways, never once recognizing her ignorance; but he made her feel the more that that ignorance was a shameful thing not to be spoken of. [9]
I propose in this lecture to show you some points of contact between our ignorance and our knowledge in several of the branches upon the study of which you are entering. [3]
Opinions based upon theory, superstition and ignorance are not very precious. [5]
The basis of the vast proprietary medicine business is popular ignorance and credulity. [4]
The repeal of the sacred Missouri Compromise has installed the weapons of violence: the bludgeon, the incendiary torch, the death-dealing rifle, the bristling cannon--the weapons of kingcraft, of the inquisition, of ignorance, of barbarism, of oppression. [7]
Then we took the other young noble in hand, and he was the first one's twin, for ignorance and incapacity. [5]
Public opinion in the old democratic sense is a myth; it must be made by strong individuals who recognize and represent evolutionary needs, otherwise it's at the mercy of demagogues who play fast and loose with the prejudice and ignorance of the mob. [9]
But at last the odious thing was over, grim and implacable Law satisfied after he had compelled them to stand in line for an interminable period before his grill, and mingle with those whom he chose, in his ignorance, to call their peers. [9]
The habits of the military class are the absence of freedom, that is, discipline, idleness, ignorance, cruelty, debauchery, and drunkenness. [2]
At that time, the ignorance of Englishmen, friendly or otherwise, about America, was infinite: they knew very little of us, and that little wrong. [6]
We were in the heart and home of priest craft--of a happy, cheerful, contented ignorance, superstition, degradation, poverty, indolence, and everlasting unaspiring worthlessness. [5]
Happily, Cynthia passed the day in ignorance that Jethro had gone through Brampton. [9]
The judgment of the community will generally be guided by some rude experience of what is best in the long run for all the members; but this judgment will not rarely err from ignorance and weak powers of reasoning. [1]
It was believed that the martyr died prophecying; that the prophecies sometimes foretold disaster, and it was considered a kindness to those upon whom it was to fall to drown the voice and keep them in ignorance of the misfortune that was to come. [5]
If they do, that just shows their ignorance on the general subject of literature. [5]
The difficulty in supposing that, starting with a state of ignorance in 1587, when he is supposed to have come to London, he was induced to enter upon a course of most extended study and mental culture, is almost insuperable. [5]
She was a subscriber for all the "Health" periodicals and phrenological frauds; and the solemn ignorance they were inflated with was breath to her nostrils. [5]
It does not stand at the boundary of our ignorance, it seems to me, but is one of the will-o'-the-wisps of its undisputed central domain of bog and quicksand. [3]
He says they spell the name of their great painter "Vinci, but pronounce it Vinchy" --and then adds with a naivete possible only to helpless ignorance, "foreigners always spell better than they pronounce. [5]
Macaulay died too soon--for none but he could mete out complete and comprehensive justice to the insolence, the impertinence, the presumption, the mendacity, and, above all, the majestic ignorance of this author. [5]
When he did so, he was in ignorance of these facts that I have related; but it is remarkable how very closely he suggested the right method of procedure. [1]
The voice was so low that his intention to keep her in ignorance of it was evident. [10]
Her naivete, her simplicity, her ignorance of social conventions and of the worldly wisdom which to Mrs. Mavick was the sum of all knowledge misled her mother as to her power of discernment and her strength of character. [4]
Charmian's ignorance and silence in regard to these very matters increased the anxiety of the endangered woman, who saw not only her own life, but those dearest to her, seriously threatened. [10]
Enthusiasm is a sign of inexperience, of ignorance, of want of culture. [4]
She got so she wasn't afraid of anything, she had such confidence in the ignorance of those creatures. [5]
For twenty-five years she had lived in ignorance as to her paternity. [11]
Only in our self-confident day of the popularization of knowledge--thanks to that most powerful engine of ignorance, the diffusion of printed matter--has the question of the freedom of will been put on a level on which the question itself cannot exist. [2]
Ignorance, intolerance, egotism, self-assertion, opaque perception, dense and pitiful chuckle-headedness--and an almost pathetic unconsciousness of it all. [5]
You make the same mistake in a less degree, when you bend to the popular ignorance and conceit so far as to direct your college education to sordid ends. [4]
Yes, doctor, I sail on a wide sea of ignorance, but I have taken soundings of some of its shallows and some of its depths. [6]
The presence and remarks of Willarski who continually deplored the ignorance and poverty of Russia and its backwardness compared with Europe only heightened Pierre's pleasure. [2]
I cannot but regard it as a blunder in statesmanship to give suffrage without an educational qualification, and to deem it possible to put ignorance over intelligence. [4]
The jury system puts a ban upon intelligence and honesty, and a premium upon ignorance, stupidity and perjury. [5]
He did not propose to pauperize his farm by applying his personal ignorance to working it. [5]
She did not pride herself on her knowledge, nor reproach herself for her ignorance. [6]
Its ignorance and prejudices react upon the profession to the great injury of both. [3]
This ignorance was perhaps owing largely to the appearance of several ranchmen from near the American border. [11]
We can, in our ignorance of most of the lowest animals, only say that their bright tints result either from the chemical nature or the minute structure of their tissues, independently of any benefit thus derived. [1]
It was his opinion that such a letter, written with well-simulated asinine innocence and gush would have gotten his ignorance and stupidity an amount of newspaper abuse worth six fortunes to him, and not purchasable for twice the money. [5]
In my private opinion every mother's son of them will lie at any time rather than confess ignorance. [6]
Our task is only that of sending out a few pickets under the starry flag of science to the edge of that dark domain where the ensigns of the obstinate rebel, Ignorance, are flying undisputed. [3]
If I have offended; it is through ignorance. [9]
Nine smokers out of ten would prefer an ordinary domestic article, three for a quarter, to fifty-cent Partaga, if kept in ignorance of the cost of the latter. [5]
In her ignorance of practical life and of what the world generally values, of course the scheme that was rather hazy in her mind was simply Quixotic, as appeared in a conversation with her father one evening while he smoked his cigar. [4]
The best part of our knowledge is that which teaches us where knowledge leaves off and ignorance begins. [3]
That the degree of limitation should differ in different species of the same group will not surprise any one who has studied the laws of inheritance, for they are so complex that they appear to us in our ignorance to be capricious in their action. [1]
And then, instead of crawling away and hiding his shameful ignorance somewhere, he proceeds to express a pious, grateful sort of satisfaction that he is gone and out of his troubles! [5]
The bundle was now unrolled, and when the contents proved to be a plump little dressed pig, the judge looked troubled, whilst Hendon turned pale, and his body was thrilled with an electric shiver of dismay; but the King remained unmoved, protected by his ignorance. [5]
But we know now that they had mercifully hidden from her how she was to be set free, but left her in ignorance. [5]
He pretended to nothing; he confessed ignorance here and there with great simplicity; but he had the gift of reducing things, as it were, to their original elements. [11]
No, they knew nothing, and their reasonings were of a piece with their ignorance. [5]
Characteristically, he did not like to display his ignorance. [9]
Sheila's ignorance must not be broken by himself. [11]
They were from Nitetis in Persia to her supposed sister, and were written in ignorance of the latter's illness. [10]
Very likely the musty saying was the product of the average ignorance of an unenlightened time, and ought not to have the respect of a scientific and traveled people. [4]
His ignorance is more charming than all knowledge, and his little sins more bewitching than any virtue. [6]
He publishes a monograph on the painters of Spain, artificial, confident, rhetorical, acute: as fascinating as a hide-and-seek drawing-room play-- he is so cleverly escaping from his ignorance and indiscretions all the while. [11]
Jessica looked a message to her comrade in ignorance. [11]
They are interesting men, full of good feelings, hard workers, always foremost in good deeds, and on the whole the most efficient civilizing class, working downwards from knowledge to ignorance, that is,--not so much upwards, perhaps,--that we have. [6]
It seems to me that ignorance and fanaticism cannot alone account for these horrible and unjust persecutions. [5]
The traditional hatred may not be so strong as it was, but it is hard to say on which side is the most ignorance and contempt of the other. [4]
Perhaps any other man would know enough without information; but I consider it my peculiar right to plead ignorance, and your bounden duty to allow the plea. [7]
It must be made to serve a purpose in helping to liberate the world from sentimentalism, ignorance, close-mindedness, and cant. [9]
Katuti feigned ignorance, listened to the story of the love-philter, and played the part of the alarmed mother very cleverly. [10]
There is one lesson to be got from a visit of an hour or two to the British Museum,--namely, the fathomless abyss of our own ignorance. [6]
What we have known is but a bitter pledge Of Ignorance, The human tribute to an ageless dream, A timeless trance. [11]
I do not know that it is any worse in this country than in Great Britain, where Mr. Huxley speaks very freely of "the utter ignorance of the simplest laws of their own animal life, which prevails among even the most highly educated persons. [3]
So, if I killed him, it was in complete ignorance. [11]
She had been kept in ignorance. [11]
He could not judge her by any formula, like those which have been moulded by past ages out of their ignorance. [6]
One answer to it is this: There is more reason to expect variety of development and character in a generally educated than in an ignorant community; there is no such uniformity as the dull level of ignorance. [4]
A man's ignorance is as much his private property, and as precious in his own eyes, as his family Bible. [3]
My friend and instructor had to set me down as a case of "invincible ignorance. [6]
She urged and implored, pleading her youth and her ignorance of the complexities and intricacies of the law and of legal procedure. [5]
This amounts to ignorance, and will impair the world's respect for him. [5]
She showed unembarrassed ignorance of the change. [11]
Blessed days of ignorance and upright living! [4]
I bear the ignorance and the evil-doing of whole generations in my single person. [6]
One was, that ignorance and incompetence had no place in the government. [5]
Well, whatever comes, I shall not air my ignorance in this crowd, anyway. [5]

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