Ignorance Quotes

From where Winston stood it was just possible to read, picked out on its white face in elegant lettering, the three slogans of the Party: WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.

Our ignorance is not so vast as our failure to use what we know.

Pettiness of mind, ignorance and presumption are the cause of stubbornness, because stubborn people only want to believe what they themselves can imagine, and they can imagine very few things.

Sticking to it is the genius.

In the age of information, ignorance is a choice. Question everything. Don't believe everything you hear. Come to your own conclusions.

The salient feature of America in the Age of Obama is a failed government class institutionally committed to living beyond its means, and a citizenry too many of whom are content to string along.

The jury system puts a ban upon intelligence and honesty and a premium upon ignorance, stupidity and perjury.

Why should we, however, in economics, have to plead ignorance of the sort of facts on which, in the case of a physical theory, a scientist would certainly be expected to give precise information?

We have nothing to lose by trusting the infinite power of the Self, except the bondage of our own ignorance.

No more gods, no more faith, no more timid holding back. Let us blast out of our old forms, our ignorance, our weakness, and our mortality. The future belongs to posthumanity.

Let us live so we do not regret years of inertia and ignorance, so when we die we can say all of our energy was dedicated to the noble liberation of the human mind and spirit, beginning with my own.

You're bound by the frame. You've become so engrossed in the movie of your life that you have forgotten that you're sitting there watching.

Ignorance of the law is no good excuse, where every man is bound to take notice of the laws to which he is subject.

If ignorance were enough to make things not exist, the world would be more like a lot of people think it is. But it's not. And it's not.

Originality is no excuse for ignorance.

Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.

The plague of man is the opinion of knowledge. That is why ignorance is so recommended by our religion as a quality suitable to belief and obedience.

Her least favorite thing: VOLUNTARY IGNORANCE

Ignorance may be bliss, but it does not lead to liberation.

It is more often from pride than from ignorance that we are so obstinately opposed to current opinions; we find the first places taken, and we do not want to be the last.

Everything unknown is magnified. [Lat., Omne ignotum pro magnifico est.]

God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance that's getting smaller and smaller and smaller as time moves on.

Ignorance breeds fear and hatred.

Three key humanist virtues are courage, cognition, and caring - not dependence, ignorance, or insensitivity to the needs of others.

It's interesting to be an adult and to have that level of ignorance about something, because the nice part about is you get that discovery. The learning curve is so rich and steep.

Enlightenment is not about becoming divine. Instead it's about becoming more fully human. . . . It is the end of ignorance.

It is the illusion of knowledge, not ignorance, that keeps one from growing.

Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.

All that makes earlier times seem simpler is our ignorance of their complexities.

At the root of all the harm we cause is ignorance.

Help and you will abolish apathy-the void that is so quickly filled by ignorance and evil.

To remove ignorance is an important branch of benevolence.

All you've got to do is own up to your ignorance honestly, and you'll find people who are eager to fill your head with information.

Error is worse than ignorance.

The insolence of the vulgar is in proportion to their ignorance. They treat everything with contempt which they do not understand.

To be a Jew is to be strong with a strength that has outlived persecutions. It is to be wise against ignorance, honest against piracy, harmless against evil, kind against cruelty

Each juggler should be trained in the ignorance of the laws of physics.

Populists and isolationists ignore the tangible benefits that have resulted from our active international role during the past half-century.

Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges.

It is the opposite of ignorance—it is intellectual honesty: to be willing to accept reality and to call things what they are even when it is hard.

To be curious about that which is not one's concern while still in ignorance of oneself is ridiculous.

Arrogance is actually just ignorance. Ignorance of what you really are in relation to the world-but most of all in relation to God.

Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water.

Beware the man of a single book.

The greatest of all the accomplishments of 20th century science has been the discovery of human ignorance

The total number of people who understand relativistic time, even after eighty years since the advent of special relativity, is still much smaller than the number of people who believe in horoscopes.

Ignorance, as they say, is usually fatal, but sometimes it can be bliss.

War and hunger and ignorance and despair know no religious barriers.

I perceive two things in Scotland of the most fearful omen: ignorance of theological truth, and a readiness to pride themselves in and boast of it.

The greatest enemy of mankind is his ignorance of the inherent money power in all of us. When the realization of this comes to man, he will like Samson, push down the walls of his prison.