Ignorance Quotes

Ignorance Quote of the day

Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.

Painting is easy when you don't know how but very difficult when you do.

You can only manage to convince a person to admit to being wrong, not ignorant, arrogant, or stupid.

Not every person that speaks less than you do is more ignorant than you are.

Ignorance is in each cell of our body and our consciousness. It's like a drop of ink diffused in a glass of water.

It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.

Weakness is what brings ignorance, cheapness, racism, homophobia, desperation, cruelty, brutality, all these things that will keep a society chained to the ground, one foot nailed to the floor.

in times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity.

had no need of a guide to learn ignorance

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

All things truly wicked start from innocence.

If I cannot brag of knowing something then I brag of not knowing it at any rate brag.

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.

Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.

No people who are ignorant can be truly free.

There is more stupidity around than hydrogen and it has longer shelf life.

But to live in ignorance on such a point was impossible.

When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

People often mistake their imagination for their heart, & so often are convinced they are converted as soon as they start thinking of becoming converted.

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

no people can be both ignorant and free.

Everybody is ignorant only on different subjects.

The more you can escape from how horrible things really are, the less it's going to bother you...and then, the worse things get.

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.

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

Beware of false knowledge it is more dangerous than ignorance.

Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.

Everybody is ignorant, Just on different subjects.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

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

An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.

Ignorance was bliss.

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though limits to our abilities do not exist.

Harshaw had the arrogant humility of the man who has learned so much that he is aware of his own ignorance and he saw no point in 'measurements' when he did not know what he was measuring.

Men are always averse to enterprises in which they foresee difficulties.

It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.

To write a good love letter you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say and to finish without knowing what you have written.

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.

I have always wanted to be somebody but I see now I should have been more specific.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

I don't know what humor is.

What is most of our boasted so-called knowledge but a conceit that we know something, which robs us of the advantage of our actual ignorance?

Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.

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

The greater our knowledge increases the greater our ignorance unfolds.

I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments and demonstrations.