Ignorance Quotes
An ignorance of means may minister to greatness, but an ignorance of aims make it impossible to be great at all.
We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill.
On entering this world our starting-point is ignorance. None, however, but idiots remain there.
Pain, sorrow, ignorance are all illusory; they cannot live. Bliss, joy, knowledge are true; they cannot die.
Now, there are two ways to approach a subject that frightens you and makes you feel stupid: you can embrace it with humility and an open mind, or you can ridicule it mercilessly.
And the quality of good judgement is clearly a form of knowledge and skill, as it is because of knowledge and not because of ignorance that we judge well.
There is simple ignorance, not knowing, and willful ignorance that refuses to know, that covers the light of knowledge with the dark blanket of bias.
The worst thing you can do is invest in companies you know nothing about. Unfortunately, buying stocks on ignorance is still a popular American pastime.
As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.
Confidence is ignorance. If you're feeling cocky, it's because there's something you don't know.
Curiosity takes ignorance seriously - and is confident enough to admit when it's in the dark. It is aware of not knowing. And then it sets out to do something about it.
If there is one word that you find coming out like a bomb from the Upanishads, bursting like a bombshell upon masses of ignorance, it is the word "fearlessness."
I could never accept findings based almost exclusively on mathematics. It ain't ignorance that causes all the trouble in this world. It's the things people know that ain't so.
Science literacy is a vaccine against the charlatans of the world that would exploit your ignorance.
The nice thing about having a brain is that one can learn, that ignorance can be supplanted by knowledge, and that small bits of knowledge can gradually pile up into substantial heaps.
In fact, the only way to remain creative over time--to not be undone by our expertise--is to experiment with ignorance, to stare at things we don't fully understand.
Ignorance breeds fear; the more you learn about your subject, the less fear it holds for you.
the bliss that comes from ignorance should seldom be encouraged for it is likely to do one out of a more satisfying bliss.
Space is as infinite as we can imagine, and expanding this perspective is what adjusts humankind's focus on conquering our true enemies, the formidable foes: ignorance and limitation.
Ignorance and arrogance are a lethal combination. Nowhere do we see that more clearly among writers and performers who pontificate as historians when they know nothing about history.
I am not sure of anything, I know nothing . . . can you imagine that I don't even know the date of my own death?
Never put off until tomorrow what you can avoid altogether. A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer. All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.
Science is a contemplative possession of reality through exclusion of all illusion, error and ignorance.
It is with nations as with individuals, those who know the least of others think the highest of themselves; for the whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other.
No human being can be more human than another human being. I liberate you from my ignorance.
In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.
I remember telling a neurosurgeon, "Don't give me too much information, because at the moment my ignorance is my best asset."
Love transcends international boundaries. It heals the wounds of racial hatred, prejudice, bigotry and ignorance.
