Sentences with phrase «admit ignorance»

Admit your ignorance and your mistakes.

It's time to admit our ignorance, so we can learn.

I'm still not entirely comfortable with nuclear but I admit ignorance there and thus don't really advocate directly against it (PS somewhat the same position with GM foods / crops); what I know enough to be afraid of and advocate against is a BAU future of coal, oil, and gas, especially one without CCS or other sequestration, with mountaintop removal mining, with tar sands, with fracking (you may already be aware of the radioactivity associated with that), Hg, escalating prices, etc (and you would be against this too, I'm sure).

It is not embarrassing to admit your ignorance but it is embarrassing when you parade it around as knowledge.

The guy simply correcting your willful ignorance of the situation or the guy who didn't want to admit his ignorance of the situation and then resorted to crying about hurt feelings?

So, I'm going to admit my ignorance here — I had no idea you could do shorter Inca Trail hikes!!

Don't feel ashamed to admit your ignorance of a technique.

The protesters freely admit their ignorance of economics and politics.

This to some may be thought of as indecision, but it probably has more to do with the fact that men are less likely to admit ignorance (think of the sat - nav, salvation for the directions - resistant among us) and are more likely to shoot from the hip.

It is far better to admit ignorance, to show openness of mind, than to claim, or seem to claim, omniscience.

For all my claims to intellectual growth, though, I had to stand before the faithful and admit my ignorance.

Christine, I have to admit my ignorance when it comes to transgendered and intersexed individuals and have little to lend to the discussion.

It takes a humble mind to admit ignorance..

The «deeper spirituality» is one that is willing to humbly admit this ignorance.

Being, to use your term, pragmatic about it, I admit my ignorance and posit that the answers to any and all of your questions have absolutely no bearing on whether or not I believe in a god or gods.

Have the courage to admit your ignorance, and take your decrepit sophistry elsewhere.

I admit my ignorance here... I'm not stating anything, I really want to know.

I argued that the opposite is true: Teachers who respond to a student's question by admitting ignorance evince strength.

A look at how admitting ignorance to your employees can improve communication, why you should avoid doing business in some countries and more advice for business owners.

Oh yeah, Chad once again being dishonest and not admitting ignorance.

On how the collective feature will take place Bonhoeffer admits ignorance, but yet affirms its truth.

@Moby» «We don't know» means just that, admitting ignorance is not a «rejection» of anything» @Chad «so, if you do nt reject a designer as one of the live options explaining the origin and fine tuning of the universe, why do nt you investigate it?

When he admits ignorance, she sweetly smiles, «I'm sure you did your best,» which I'm sure means «Bless your heart» in Wakandan.

Jumping in and being upfront about what you what (if you know what you want), or admitting your ignorance (if you don't know what you need help with), can lead to a productive conversation.

Note also that I have appealed to all to inform me of any publications, anywhere, in which the same sorts of insolation change calculations as I have performed are described; that is, I am admitting ignorance of any such work having been done, and asking for help.

Is admitting your ignorance about sports akin to confessing you are unlettered in the law?

Not exact matches

The research also suggested ignorance isn't bliss — 60 % of the 25 - 34 age group admitted that their personal finances caused them stress, anxiety and sleepless nights.

He is eager to declare the Bible inaccurate, and that is equivalent to saying God is a liar, and saying that God can not be trusted, and saying that man has better answers, which is the same as deniers do, except for the ones who are afraid to admit their hate of God, and instead try to hide their hate behind ignorance and the atheism label.

He admits there are believers in God that contribute to and support science and certainly do not believe or demonstrate God as though it is a receding pocket of scientific ignorance.

Thank for admitting to hiding behind ignorance @redzoa.

Bravo to the person of any orientation who admits to this ignorance, for they will be open to learning and experiencing what might be missed by the blinders of dogmatism.

OTOH, I'll admit complete ignorance to the Hindu or Buddhist texts.

Radha, too, when in a state where «love's deep fantasies / struggle with her modesty,» [XII.1] would feign ignorance of her true condition, as if it were a secret another part of her self must not admit knowing.

It is every bit of voluntary ignornace practaced by strict 6,000 year - old - earth creationists — except they at least admit their voluntary ignorance.

Another way that writers excuse the people is to admit their guilt, but to consider it ignorance deliberately cultivated by elites, particularly through media manipulation.

All true disciples of Jesus today will also admit their areas of confusion and ignorance and will then also turn to Jesus for an explanation.

But what if Prof. Arnhart admits that beavers and even extraterrestrials can be detectable designers, but that my method can not detect an immaterial designer» that if no material or embodied agent can be found for some effect, we have to plead ignorance?

Now I freely admit that my not being aware of good alternatives to Jesus of Nazareth may be due to simple ignorance on my part and is no doubt culturally conditioned.

The theory which I am urging admits a greater ultimate mystery and a deeper ignorance.

I'm tickled because while I admit my own — deliberately chosen — rap ignorance, I really do believe, as thoroughly as Roxanne Shante did about her female - MC supremacy, that nobody has explained as thoroughly as yours truly why those five words really ought to serve as the motto of the rock story, and of the pop - music story generally, from the mid-90s on.

Yet Piper admits that he does not know where this process of rethinking the Reformed faith is going, and he confesses ignorance as to what its implications are for the future of ethnic relations.

So when I say «willful ignorance», I mean his willingness to admit he didn't know.

And as the author of one of the first scholarly articles on «Hinduphobia» in American life, I am happy to admit that such ignorance is rife.

I presented a very inadequate and elementary paper on Aquinas» view of faith and reason, and Blanshard revealed both his ignorance of Aquinas and his honesty when he reacted to it with great interest and even admitted that if what I said was correct he had «perhaps been mistaken all his life» about the impossibility of any synthesis between religious faith and philosophical reason.

I must begin by admitting total ignorance of a festival that last took place when I was two years old.

I look back at all of the conflicts we had with schools over the years (things like treating our children respectfully, struggling to provide healthy food choices, uhg) and I am ashamed to admit that my fear and ignorance about HS allowed me to justify sending my children off everyday to deal with people and situations that were not positive learning experiences for them, but often humiliating or dis - empowering.

«Apart from deep rooted ignorance, illiteracy and permissible idiocy by the well lettered on social media, the two major high risk phenomena he should be concerned about are a very uninspiring Electoral Commission with a terrible communication strategy and the second of course is skyrocketing unemployement which I must admit he can't do much about.»

With an embarrassed smile I had to admit my complete ignorance of Melville's seminal 1967 film.

They can either ignore society and rise above ignorance, as they have been doing the whole time, or they can simply give up, admit defeat against the overwhelming forces working against them.

As a life - long learner, I have no problem admitting my prior ignorance when I learn something new.