Ignorance Quotes

The older we grow the greater becomes our wonder at how much ignorance one can contain without bursting one's clothes.

From the Zen view all beings are in the grip of the three poisons, greed, anger and delusion (ignorance).

Ignorance is God's prison. Knowing is God's palace

Ignorance is not bliss, but in my case, that was.

Every time that a people which has long crouched in slavery and ignorance is moved to its lowest depths there appear monsters and heroes, prodigies of crime and prodigies of virtue.

An atheist is more reclaimable than a papist, as ignorance is sooner cured than superstition.

Ignorance is the mother of research.

There is a dangerous optimism of ignorance and indifference.

History is a record of the incessant struggle of humanity against ignorance and oppression.

It is a mistake always to contemplate the good and ignore the evil, because by making people neglectful it lets in disaster. There is a dangerous optimism of ignorance and indifference.

My boyhood life in New York City has impressed me with the popular ignorance and also with the great need of something better than local lore and weather proverbs.

Idealism, alas, does not protect one from ignorance, dogmatism, and foolishness.

Unbecoming forwardness oftener proceeds from ignorance than impudence.

A few drops of science will often disinfect an entire barrel full of ignorance and prejudice.

Knowing ignorance is strength; ignoring knowledge is sickness.

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.

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.

The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.

How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time?

Education, introspection, self-love and excellence are the only ways to overcome the wrath of ignorance

The greatest and saddest defect is not credulity, but an habitual forgetfulness that our science is ignorance.

A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance.

Self-complacency is the companion of ignorance.

Attainment is a poor measure of capacity, and ignorance no proof of defect.

Faith is a term that makes ignorance sound like a virtue

The question is asked in ignorance, by one who does not even know what can have led him to ask it.

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 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.

When you forget to eat, you know you're alive.

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.

I had learned to harness ignorance with presumption. I was ready to become an unacknowledged watercolorist.

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.

The problem that is to solve urgently is the ignorance of the people.

Simple ignorance has in its time been complimented by the names of most of the vices, and of all the virtues.

Do not try to entrap others with your haughty knowledge. To your wide surprise, they will entrap you with their lengthy ignorance.

Fear and Bigotry are bred fom isolation and ignorance. -Shekinah

You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and not get wet.

True modesty does not consist in an ignorance of our merits, but in a due estimate of them.

Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice.

Ignorance is a voluntary condition.

Science ... in other words, knowledge-is not the enemy of religion; for, if so, then religion would mean ignorance. But it is often the antagonist of school-divinity.

Between knowledge of what really exists and ignorance of what does not exist lies the domain of opinion. It is more obscure than knowledge, but clearer than ignorance.

Let's not be too rough on our own ignorance, it's what makes America great.

Probably the most honest "self-made person" ever was the one we heard say: "I got to the top the hard way - fighting my own laziness and ignorance every step of the way."

It is an essential part of the scientific enterprise to admit ignorance, even to exult in ignorance as a challenge to future conquests.

Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end.

The idea that by eating the meat of an animal, the animal powers or faculties could be conveyed to oneself is nonsense and originates in a mental ignorance of the perfect and genuine primitive laws.

Ignorance and poverty are the best condiments for the great feast of the world, but the inexperienced and poor are never invited to it.

The Enemy has been here in the night of our natural ignorance, and sown the tares of spiritual errors.

Contemporary movies just drive me crazy. The violence and the sentimentality and the spiritual materialism and Theism and the incredible indulgence in ignorance is so claustrophobic.