Ignorance Quotes
Ignorance and bloodlust have a long tradition in the United States, especially in the red states.
There is no case where ignorance should be preferred to knowledge - especially if the knowledge is terrible.
I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation.
It was a childish ignorance, But now 'tis little joy To know I'm further off from heaven Than when I was a boy.
Every man must be taken to be cognizant of the law, otherwise there is no saying to what extent the excuse of ignorance may not be Law carried. It would be urged in almost every case.
Passionate people invariably deny their anger, and cowards often boast their ignorance of fear.
Some writers, rejecting the idea which science had reached, that reefs of rocks could be due in any way to "animalcules," have talked of electrical forces, the first and last appeal of ignorance.
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.
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.
True modesty does not consist in an ignorance of our merits, but in a due estimate of them.
Most criticism of advertising is written in ignorance of what actually happens inside these agencies.
It is forgivable to say nothing out of ignorance; it's inexcusable to remain silent once awareness dawns.
And this is the way a novel gets written, in ignorance, fear, sorrow, madness, and a kind of psychotic happiness as an incubator for the wonders being born.
Ask Anthony Hopkins how he makes his characters come to life and he just shrugs. I don't know. If I knew, I wouldn't be able to do it. As they say: Where ignorance is bliss it's folly to be wise.
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.
And I have written three books on the soul, Proving absurd all written hitherto, And putting us to ignorance again.
The laws of nature are only as immutable as the minds which promote them. Ignorance of the law is 9/10ths of the law. Just because you aren't paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you.
Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature.
It is the incompetent and the neglected artist who charges the public with ignorance, stupidity, and indifference. He raves loudly, but he is incomprehensible, even inarticulate, in his work.
So long as the mother, Ignorance, lives, it is not safe for Science the offspring, to divulge the hidden causes of things.
It was a reaction from the old idea of "protoplasm", a name which was a mere repository of ignorance.
Tho' there be no such Thing as Chance in the World; our Ignorance of the real Ccause of any Event has the same Influence on the Understanding, and begets a like Species of Belief or Opinion.
The more one endeavors to sound the depths of his ignorance the deeper the chasm appears.
Herein is the evil of ignorance, that he who is neither good nor wise is nevertheless satisfied with himself: he had no desire for that of which he feels no want.
Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.
Maybe the same instruments and tools that have been used to keep people in slavery and ignorance could potentially be used to liberate and awaken them.
A true scientist is bored by knowledge; it is the assault on ignorance that motivates him - the mysteries that previous discoveries have revealed.
To be free from ignorance you need knowledge. The mind should turn inward. Silence takes the mind inward and helps you to recognize who you are.
The reason why the simpler sort are moved by authority is the consciousness of their own ignorance