Ignorance Quotes

Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.

If we're able to identify our own ignorance, we can identify someone else's expertise. We learn how to listen to each other. And that is the foundation of human understanding.

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.

By identifying the new learning with heresy, you make orthodoxy synonymous with ignorance.

Self-hate is a form of mental slavery that results in poverty, ignorance, and crime.

Doubt is really a groping ignorance.

A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission.

You can't argue with stupidity.

Ignorance has its virtues; without it there'd be mighty little conversation.

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

Admitting one's ignorance is the first step in acquiring knowledge.

Ignorant men differ from beasts only in their figure.

To most people, nothing is more troublesome than the effort of thinking.

Passion does not compensate for ignorance.

Unknowing ignorance is preferable to informed stupidity.

There is no sin greater than ignorance.

Now, ignorance is one thing, ignorance can be cured. But many of the Republican leaders opposing this research know better.

Peace we want because there is another war to fight against poverty, disease and ignorance.

Freedom comes from seeing the ignorance of your critics and discovering the emptiness of their virtue.

It would be difficult to dispel ignorance unless there is freedom to pursue the truth unfettered by fear.

Knowledge leads to unity, but ignorance to diversity.

In the spiritual realm, the opposite of ignorance is not knowledge, it's obedience.

Certainty is the most vivid condition of ignorance and the most necessay condition for knowledge.

I'm tired of ignorance held up as inspiration.

Willful ignorance and endless laws become the replacement for self-education and self-restraint, because ignorance and laws are easy.

What we call evil, it seems to me, is simply ignorance bumping its head in the dark.

Ignorance of the law excuses no man.

whatever our ignorance left to itself, and whatever the wounds that other human beings are, we ought to study ourselves with a sort of devotion.

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

He was ignorant, but a lot of people mistook ignorance for stupidity, and knowingness for intelligence.

Television, the drug of the nation, breeding ignorance and feeding radiation.

[W]e must come into a transformed knowing, an unknowing which comes not from ignorance but from knowledge.

Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance.

Close beside my knowledge lies my black ignorance.

A tree which has lost its head will never recover it again, and will survive only as a monument of the ignorance and folly of its Tormentor.

Understand the suffering of worldly existence. Abandon its causes of ignorance and selfishness. Practice the path of meditation and compassion. Awaken from suffering within Great Peace.

Nothing puts a greater obstacle in the way of the progress of knowledge than thinking that one knows what one does not yet know.

Where ignorance is not bliss, get wise!

Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.

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

Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence.

Ignorance is not bad faith. But persistence in ignorance is.

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

Where there is ignorance, sickness will thrive.

It’s ignorant to think you know everything about a person. There’s many different sides to everybodys personality and there’s just different colours to a personality.

I do sometimes accuse people of ignorance, but that is not intended to be an insult. I'm ignorant of lots of things. Ignorance is something that can be remedied by education.

I have been judged to be a pessimist but what abyss of ignorance and low egoism is not hidden in one who thinks that Man is the god of himself and that his future can only be triumphant?

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.

Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.

Innate in nearly every artistic nature is a wanton, treacherous penchant for accepting injustice when it creates beauty and showing sympathy for and paying homage to aristocratic privilege.