Ignorance Quotes

The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future.

The shortest route to courage is absolute ignorance.

Lack of understanding is a great power. Sometimes it enables men to conquer the world.

Science is the topography of ignorance.

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

All the best essays are epistemological journeys from ignorance or curiosity to knowledge.

Through ignorance of what is good and what is bad, the life of men is greatly perplexed.

There is but one evil, ignorance.

Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.

The disclosure of a new fact, the leap forward, the conquest over yesterday's ignorance, is an act not of reason but of imagination, of intuition.

He who thinks he knows, doesn't know. He who knows that he doesn't know, knows.

A man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.

Absolute certainty is a privilege of uneducated minds and fanatics. - It is, for scientific folk, an unattainable ideal.

God is an ever receding pocket of scientific ignorance.

Listening a cultivated person of today that jokes and almost boasts about his scientific ignorance, is as sad as listening a scientist that boasts about not having read any poem.

What a life in science really teaches you is the vastness of our ignorance.

To be ignorant of one's own ignorance is to be in an unprogressive, uninspired state of existence.

Knowing your own ignorance is the first step to enlightenment.

There is no sinfulness in the will and affections without some error in the understanding. All lusts which a natural man lives in, are lusts of ignorance.

It is the pain of ignorance which makes one into a seeker.

Ignorance is not, not knowing something. It is knowing what isn't so.

There is no limit to stupidity. - Space itself is said to be bounded by its own curvature, but stupidity continues beyond infinity.

You have been a prisoner of a little pond I am the ocean and its turbulent flood Come merge with me leave this world of ignorance

The age of ignorance commenced with the Christian system.

Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.

It is astonishing what you can do when you have a lot of energy, ambition and plenty of ignorance.

When someone says something dunderheaded to me about the material, it's usually a big neon sign revealing their own damage or ignorance, so my compassion kicks in.

A play is made by sensing how the forces in life simulate ignorance-you set free the concealed irony, the deadly joke.

Of all the wastes of human ignorance perhaps the most extravagant and costly to human growth has been the waste of the distinctive powers of womanhood after the child-bearing age.

Stupidity is the basic building block of the universe.

Yes, God uses the uneducated to confound the wise. But that doesn't make ignorance a virtue.

Ignorance: the root of all evil.

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all.

Quantum mechanics, with its leap into statistics, has been a mere palliative for our ignorance

Dignity is a mask we wear to hide our ignorance.

What we know here is very little, but what we are ignorant of is immense.

Medicine is of all the Arts the most noble; but, owing to the ignorance of those who practice it, and of those who, inconsiderately, form a judgment of them, it is at present behind all the arts.

Ignorance is not bliss — it is oblivion. Determined ignorance is the hastiest kind of oblivion.

I consider nothing low but ignorance, vice, and meanness, characteristics generally found where the animal propensities predominate over the higher sentiments.

A knavish speech sleeps in a fool's ear.

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

Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.

The men on the trading floor may not have been to school, but they have Ph.D.’s in man’s ignorance.

A man is responsible for his ignorance.

Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.

There comes a moment in history when ignorance is no longer a forgivable offense... a moment when only wisdom has the power to absolve. - Bertrand Zobrist

I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but ignorance.

Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.

Doubt is really a groping ignorance.

Where did I get the nerve to think I could handle American teenagers? Ignorance. That's where I got the nerve.