Ignorance Quotes
He that voluntarily continues in ignorance, is guilty of all the crimes which ignorance produces.
Much that we hug today as knowledge is ignorance pure and simple. It makes the mind wander and even reduces it to a vacuity.
Do not try to entrap others with your haughty knowledge. To your wide surprise, they will entrap you with their lengthy ignorance.
Simple ignorance has in its time been complimented by the names of most of the vices, and of all the virtues.
Samsara is the world appearance, the cycle of rebirth, the physically manifest universes and states of mind that you perceive through the medium of ego.
I had learned to harness ignorance with presumption. I was ready to become an unacknowledged watercolorist.
The general impression is that fifteen year-old Dolly remains morbidly uninterested in sexual matters, or to be exact, represses her curiosity in order to save her ignorance and self-dignity.
The truth is perilous never to the true, Nor knowledge to the wise; and to the fool, And to the false, error and truth alike, Error is worse than ignorance.
The ignorant man marvels at the exceptional; the wise man marvels at the common; the greatest wonder of all is the regularity of nature.
Wit, like hunger, will be with great difficulty restrained from falling on vice and ignorance, where there is great plenty and variety of food.
The question is asked in ignorance, by one who does not even know what can have led him to ask it.
A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance.
Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal; and he may be properly charged with evil who refused to learn how he might prevent it.
The greatest and saddest defect is not credulity, but an habitual forgetfulness that our science is ignorance.
Education, introspection, self-love and excellence are the only ways to overcome the wrath of ignorance
How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time?
The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.
The whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other
Larry Summers, I think, he had a long history of arrogance and relative ignorance about poor people's culture and working people's culture and so forth.
Man never knows what he wants; he aspires to penetrate mysteries and as soon as he has, wants to re-establish them. Ignorance irritates him and knowledge cloys.
Ignorance lies at the bottom of all human knowledge, and the deeper we penetrate, the nearer we arrive unto it.
Ignorance ... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.
A few drops of science will often disinfect an entire barrel full of ignorance and prejudice.
I'm like everyone else—I see the world in terms of what I would like to see happen, not what actually does.
We must be physicists in order to be creative since so far codes of values and ideals have been constructed in ignorance of physics or even in contradiction to physics.
We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.
How happy is it for us, that the admiration of others should depend so much more on their ignorance than our perfection!
We receive the truths of science by compulsion. Nothing but ignorance is able to resist them.
God has bestowed two gifts on man: hope and ignorance. Ignorance is the better of the two.
There's a road to hell that is paved with good intentions but it's a long route. The quicker path is paved with the kind of ignorance that clever men who just don't want to know are best at.
Darkness is the fit hour for beasts of prey, and ignorance the natural dwelling place of cruelty.
For it is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize... They were pursuing science in order to know, and not for any utilitarian end.