Ignorance Quotes
But honest men do not pretend to know; they are candid and sincere; they love the truth; they admit their ignorance, and they say, We do not know.
We can't see and we can't reach the frontiers of our ignorance; we can only approach to it by extending our knowledge.
Ignorance worships mystery; reason explains it; the one grovels, the other soars.
We cannot be saved until we have risen above all our enemies, not the least of which is ignorance.
Among true and real friends, all is common; and were ignorance and envy and superstition banished from the world, all mankind would be friend.
His ignorance covers the world like a blanket, and there's scarcely a hole in it anywhere.
Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon but to the fact that our ignorance and our complacency are coming to an end.
Open the gates of wisdom, tear the veil of ignorance, enter the abode of Divine Bliss. Rest in peace forever.
People's ignorance really pisses me off. Stupidity is when you can't help it -ignorance is when you choose not to understand something.
Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
So easy are men to be drawn to believe any thing, from such men as have gotten credit with them; and can with gentleness and dexterity take hold of their fear and ignorance.
That there should one man die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call a tragedy.
Public Opinion... an attempt to organize the ignorance of the community, and to elevate it to the dignity of physical force.
The key point some Christians miss is that scientific ignorance about the beginning of life, or any of life's processes, is not evidence of a god.
Just tell yourself a story that'll satisfy you and pretend he told it.
When you're fighting for social justice, one of my biggest pet peeves is speaking out of ignorance.
One column of truth cannot hold an institution of ideas from falling into ignorance. It is wiser that a person of prudence and purpose save his strength for battles that can be won.
Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.
Uncertainty and fear and ignorance about immigrants, about people who are different, has a history as old as our Nation.
Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.
I don't like greed, I don't like ignorance. I really don't like anger. But I love love.
The Iraq War was the biggest issue for people of my generation in the West. It was also the clearest case, in my living memory, of media manipulation and the creation of a war through ignorance.
I think it's better to not know certain things. It gives the world an extra bit of mystery, which is important to us as human beings.
Most people do not actually know how to think for themselves, and unfortunately that prevents them from even knowing it.
... there is no shame in not knowing. The problem arises when irrational thought and attendant behavior fill the vacuum left by ignorance.
How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time?