Ignorance Quotes

There is no darkness but ignorance.

Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly.

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are all blindly adopted, the second willfully preferred.

Innocence is ignorance.

Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.

When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results.

If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.

The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.

God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray.

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.

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

Never let your persistence and passion turn into stubbornness and ignorance.

'God's plan' is often a front for men's plans and a cover for inadequacy, ignorance, and evil.

Ignorance is never out of style. It was in fashion yesterday, it is the rage today and it will set the pace tomorrow.

We Hoosiers hold to some quaint notions. Some might say we 'cling' to them, though not out of fear or ignorance. We believe in paying our bills. We have kept our state in the black throughout the recent unpleasantness, while cutting rather than raising taxes, by practicing an old tribal ritual - we spend less money than we take in.

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.

I am one of those scientists who feels that it is no longer enough just to get on and do science. We have to devote a significant proportion of our time and resources to defending it from deliberate attack from organised ignorance.

It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.

The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.

He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.

His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.

The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.

I think what a life in science really teaches you is the vastness of our ignorance.

Far and away, the greatest threat to the ocean, and thus to ourselves, is ignorance. But we can do something about that.

Mental illnesses are so frightening and there's so much ignorance about them that I think it comforts people to think, 'Oh, well, it happens to these people because they deserve it.'

The average man has a carefully cultivated ignorance about household matters - from what to do with the crumbs to the grocer's telephone number - a sort of cheerful inefficiency which protects him.

His ignorance is encyclopedic.

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.

Mystery is but another name for ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain!

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.

The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.

Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human.

Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.

Without feeling abashed by my ignorance, I confess that I am absolutely unable to say. In the absence of an appearance of learning, my answer has at least one merit, that of perfect sincerity.

Doubt is the middle position between knowledge and ignorance. It encompasses cynicism but also genuine questioning.

Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn't get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.

Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.

Here is true immorality: ignorance and stupidity; the devil is nothing but this. His name is Legion.

Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.

A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.

Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water.

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance.

A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance; but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books.

I am astonished each time I come to the U.S. by the ignorance of a high percentage of the population, which knows almost nothing about Latin America or about the world. It's quite blind and deaf to anything that may happen outside the frontiers of the U.S.

Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.

Here's what the right-wing has in, there's no shortage of the natural resources of ignorance, apathy, hate, fear. As long as those things are in the collective conscious and unconscious, the Republicans will have some votes.

Until as recently as November of 1966, I had complete faith in the Warren Report. Of course, my faith in the Report was grounded in ignorance, since I had never read it.

It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.

Our great struggle in medicine these days is not just with ignorance and uncertainty. It's also with complexity: how much you have to make sure you have in your head and think about. There are a thousand ways things can go wrong.

It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge.

Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance.

Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.

Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.

Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.

It was easy to present figures demonstrating the contrast between lead work in the United States under conditions of neglect and ignorance, and comparable work in England and Germany, under intelligent control.

Prejudice is the child of ignorance.

Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.

Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance.

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.

It's appropriate that the word 'ignorance' is an extension of the word 'ignore.' We ignore so much and so we become ignore-ant.

Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows.

There is no slavery but ignorance.

The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it.

I perceive two things in Scotland of the most fearful omen: ignorance of theological truth, and a readiness to pride themselves in and boast of it.

I believe that ignorance is the root of all evil. And that no one knows the truth.

The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.

All comparisons between America's current place in the world and anything legitimately called an empire in the past reveal ignorance and confusion about any reasonable meaning of the concept empire, especially the comparison with the Roman Empire.

I'm against ignorance.

I've wanted to be a writer since I was a boy, though it seemed an unlikely outcome since I showed no real talent. But I persevered and eventually found my own row to hoe. Ignorance of other writers' work keeps me from discouragement and I am less well-read than the average bus driver.