Quote of Albert Camus - The evil that is in the...

Biography - Albert Camus:

French philosopher, author, and journalist. Nobel Prize in Literature (1957).
Born: 1913 - Died: 1960
Period:
20th century
Place of birth: Algeria
Algeria

The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.

Albert Camus - The Plague

Translation

(French, German)

Le mal qui est dans le monde vient presque toujours de l’ignorance, et la bonne volonté peut faire autant de dégâts que la méchanceté, si elle n’est pas éclairée.

Albert Camus - La Peste

Das Böse in der Welt rührt fast immer von der Unwissenheit her, und der gute Wille kann so viel Schaden anrichten wie die Bosheit, wenn er nicht aufgeklärt ist.

Albert Camus - Die Pest

Quotes for: evil

The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.

Albert Einstein /

One of the most important and most difficult arts is to unlearn vice.

Antisthenes /

For there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

William Shakespeare - The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark /

Antisthenes used to say that the most useful science was to unlearn evil.

François Fénelon /

What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Beyond Good and Evil /

Little evil would be done in the world if evil never could be done in the name of good.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach /

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Quotes about ignorance:

The opposite of humility is pride, and all pride is ignorance.

André Comte-Sponville - A Small Treatise on the Great Virtues /

All I know is that I know nothing.

Socrates /

Suppose a man can convince me of error and bring home to me that I am mistaken in thought or act; I shall be glad to alter, for the truth is what I pursue, and no one was ever injured by the truth, whereas he is injured who continues in his own self-deception and ignorance.

Marcus Aurelius - Meditations /

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato /

To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.

Mark Twain /

The only way to avoid error is ignorance.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Emile, or On Education /

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Albert Camus also said...

The need to be right - the sign of a vulgar mind.

Albert Camus - Carnets /

In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

Albert Camus - L'Été /

The greatness of man lies in his decision to be stronger than his condition.

Albert Camus - Chroniques /

There are more things to admire in men than to despise.

Albert Camus - The Plague /

True artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.

Albert Camus - Speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1957 /

Freedom is not constituted primarily of privilege but of responsibilities.

Albert Camus /

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