Ignorance Quotes

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

Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.

His ignorance is encyclopedic.

A library is like an island in the middle of a vast sea of ignorance, particularly if the library is very tall and the surrounding area has been flooded.

Just as darkness is born of the absence of light, the shadow side of our collective experience is born of ignorance of the underlying truth of the unity of life.

Against a stupidity that is in fashion, no wisdom compensates.

Statistics: the mathematical theory of ignorance.

It’s easier to hold onto your own stereotypes and misconceptions, it makes you feel justified in your own ignorance. That’s America. So the challenge for us is, are we ready for change?

A fool who recognises his own ignorance is thereby in fact a wise man, but a fool who considers himself wise - that is what one really calls a fool.

Atheism is the result of ignorance and pride; of strong sense and feeble reasons; of good eating and ill-living. It is the plague of society, the corrupter of manners, and the underminer of property.

Envy comes from people's ignorance of, or lack of belief in, their own gifts.

The opposite of knowledge is not ignorance, but deceit and fraud.

To confess ignorance is often wiser than to beat about the bush with a hypothetical diagnosis.

Racism does not diminish with brains, it's a disease, a sickness, it may incubate in ignorance but it doesn't necessarily disappear with the gaining of wisdom!

All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure.

America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to a select few.

You can't mastermind everything. You'll go crazy. Just show up and play.

Every wicked man is in ignorance as to what he ought to do, and from what to abstain, and it is because of error such as this that men become unjust and, in a word, wicked.

For myself, I long ago decided that I would rather know the truth than be happy in ignorance. If I can not have both truth and happiness, give me truth. We’ll have a long time to be happy in heaven.

The point of the spiritual revolution is not to become a good Buddhist, but to become a wise and compassionate human being, to awaken from our life of complacency and ignorance and to be a buddha.

An illusion of depth often occurs if a blockhead is a muddlehead at the same time

Ignorance and fear are twins whose mother is slavery and whose father is oppression, and the mentality of the whole family is that of slaves.

The root cause of all the problems we have in the world today is ignorance of course. But most, polarization.

By ignorance the truth is known.

Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.

Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.

We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger.

Man, surrounded by facts, permitting himself no surprise, no intuitive flash, no great hypothesis, no risk, is in a locked cell. Ignorance cannot seal the mind and imagination more securely.

There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.

Does a population have informed consent when that population is not taught the inner workings of its monetary system, and then is drawn, all unknowing, into economic adventures?

Information can bring you choices and choices bring power - educate yourself about your options and choices. Never remain in the dark of ignorance.

Gross ignorance is 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance.

Let's not be too tough on our own ignorance. It's the thing that makes America great. If America weren't incomparably ignorant, how could we have tolerated the last eight years?

Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance.

Ignorance of the law excuses no man; not that all men know the law, but because 'tis an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to refute him.

My whole career can be summed up with 'Ignorance is bliss.' When you do not know better, you do not really worry about failing.

Ignorance is better than knowledge misapplied.

The idea of a news broadcast once was to find someone with information and broadcast it. The idea now is to find someone with ignorance and spread it around.

Meditation brings wisdom; lack of meditation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.

Congress should fund research on the effects that violent video games have on young minds... We don't benefit from ignorance. We don't benefit from not knowing the science.

But what sin is to the moralist and crime to the jurist so to the scientific man is ignorance.

Let all men know how empty and powerless is the power of kings. For there is none worthy of the name but God, whom heaven, earth and sea obey

In his ignorance of the whole truth, each person maintains his own arrogant point of view.

The realization of ignorance is the first act of knowing.

Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of mankind.

I attribute all my success to ignorance. If you don't ever think about not getting where you want to be, I think it helps you out.

History is full of people who out of fear, or ignorance, or lust for power has destroyed knowledge of immeasurable value which truly belongs to us all. We must not let it happen again.

That which we manifest is before us; we are the creators of our own destiny. Be it through intention or ignorance, our successes and our failures have been brought on by none other than ourselves.

The abuse dies in a day; but the denial slays the life of the people and entombs the hope of the race.

May I hold myself in compassion. May I meet the suffering and ignorance of others with compassion.