Ignorance Quotes

Three were the fates. Poverty that chains; gray drudgery that grinds the hope away, and gaping ignorance that starves the soul.

The confidence of ignorance will always overcome the indecision of knowledge.

I was going to talk about Nicholas Parsons' ignorance, but 18 seconds would be a wholly insufficient time.

The visibility at the best of times is liable to be a bit haxy due to clouds of ignorance.

Ignorance killed the cat; curiosity was framed!

This self-congratulatory notion Americans have that their country is Number One is borne of ignorance and bad manners.

Your ignorance cramps my conversation

Adventure is putting one's ignorance into motion.

I make this chief distinction between religion and superstition, that the latter is founded on ignorance, the former on knowledge.

In behaving respectfully toward all that the land contains, it is possible to imagine a stifling ignorance falling away from us.

Admiration is the basis of ignorance.

The knowledge and reason speak, ignorance and error shout.

A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance. [The ability to focus on positives and distract your mind from negatives for at least a time is a necessary skill for being happy.]

There is natural ignorance and there is artificial ignorance. I should say at the present moment the artificial ignorance is about eighty-five per cent.

Slavery...dishonors labor. It introduces idleness into society, and with idleness, ignorance and pride, luxury and distress. It enervates the powers of the mind and benumbs the activity of man.

On our plane knowledge and ignorance are the immemorial adversaries.

Much of our ignorance is of ourselves. Our eyes are full of dust. Prejudice blinds us.

Races are very often invented from ignorance, or for evil purposes.

Female gossips are generally actuated by active ignorance.

It must certainly be more dangerous to live in ignorance than to live with knowledge.

The darkest night is ignorance.

We are all of us imaginative in some form or other, for images are the brood of desire.

Laugh not too much; the witty man laughs least: For wit is news only to ignorance. Lesse at thine own things laugh; lest in the jest Thy person share, and the conceit advance.

How marvelous books are, crossing worlds and centuries, defeating ignorance and, finally, cruel time itself.

On the one side was bigotry, ignorance, hatred, superstition, every sort of blackness that the human mind is capable of. On the other side was sense.

All ignorance is the lack of love.

An ignorant person is, by the very fact of his or her ignorance, a very dangerous person.

From exertion come wisdom and purity; from sloth ignorance and sensuality.

Ignorance is the womb of monsters.

I'm against ignorance. I'm against sloppy, emotional thinking. I'm against fashionable thinking. I am against the whole cliché of the moment.

Slavery is the parent of ignorance, and ignorance begets a whole brood of follies and vices; and every one of these is inevitably hostile to literary culture.

There are, in effect, two things, to know and to believe one knows; to know is science; to believe one knows is ignorance.

It is better to confess ignorance than provide it.

Imperfect understanding is often more dangerous than ignorance.

Knowledge can only be limited. Ignorance is boundless. In recognizing our ignorance, we will touch that which is boundless.

Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence, and ecclesiastical establishments tend to great ignorance and corruption; all of which facilitate the execution of mischievous projects.

Ecclesiastical establishments tend to great ignorance and corruption

Without feeling abashed by my ignorance, I confess that I am absolutely unable to say. In the absence of an appearance of learning, my answer has at least one merit, that of perfect sincerity.

Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.

His ignorance covers the world like a blanket, and there's scarcely a hole in it anywhere.

The Gods are unkind and deny us knowledge of what the future holds

Recognizing your own ignorance is the first step toward wisdom.

It is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.

We cannot be saved until we have risen above all our enemies, not the least of which is ignorance.

Ignorance is...voluntary... (Paraphrased)

The combination of fear and ignorance (two sides of the same coin) can be paralyzing.

Among true and real friends, all is common; and were ignorance and envy and superstition banished from the world, all mankind would be friend.

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

People's ignorance really pisses me off. Stupidity is when you can't help it -ignorance is when you choose not to understand something.

Open the gates of wisdom, tear the veil of ignorance, enter the abode of Divine Bliss. Rest in peace forever.