Ignorance Quotes

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.

Ignorance is a voluntary condition.

Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice.

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.

He who is not aware of his ignorance will be only misled by his knowledge.

Passionate people invariably deny their anger, and cowards often boast their ignorance of fear.

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.

It was a childish ignorance, But now 'tis little joy To know I'm further off from heaven Than when I was a boy.

I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation.

The plea of ignorance will never take away our responsibilities.

Ignorance can be cured. Stupid is forever.

There is no case where ignorance should be preferred to knowledge - especially if the knowledge is terrible.

Ignorance and bloodlust have a long tradition in the United States, especially in the red states.

Mystery is but another name for ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain!

Can one be fully human without experiencing tragedy? The only tragedy there is in the world is ignorance; all evil comes from that.

It is fairly well-known what has been behind that climate change denial in America: vast sums pumped into an ignorance industry by the oil and gas lobbies.

Ultimately there can be no disagreement between history, science, philosophy, and theology. Where there is disagreement, there is either ignorance or error.

I want nothing to do with any religion concerned with keeping the masses satisfied to live in hunger, filth, and ignorance.

Confidence, as opposed, to modesty and distinguished from decent assurance, proceeds from self-opinion, and is occasioned by ignorance and flattery.

Ignorance is learned; innocence is forgotten.

Ignorance per se is not nearly as dangerous as ignorance of ignorance.

Educationists are entertaining. We can always find a good laugh in their prose, with its special, ludicrous combination of ignorance and pretentiousness.

And his best riches, ignorance of wealth.

It is very unfair in any writer to employ ignorance and malice together, because it gives his answerer double work.

When you grow up surrounded by willful ignorance, you have to believe that mercy has it's own country and that it's round and borderless.

There is only one calamity: ignorance. And there is only one solution: enlightenment.

Ignorance breeds antipathy. Until I got to know how computers worked, I didn't want anything to do with them. I said, 'Well, why do I need them? I write letters.' Which I still do.

Time after time, history demonstrates that when people don't want to believe something, they have enormous skills of ignoring it altogether.

The knowledge from an enlightened person breaks on the hard rocks of ignorance.

Scientific men can hardly escape the charge of ignorance with regard to the precise effect of the impact of modern science upon the mode of living of the people and upon their civilisation.

Reviewers do not read books with much care . . . their profession is more given to stupidity and malice and literary ignorance even than the profession of novelist.

Charity puts and end to poverty; righteous conduct to misery; discretion to ignorance; and scrutiny to fear.

We are more pained by ignorance than delighted by instruction.

There's nothing as safe as ignorance or as dangerous.

Education is the best weapon through which we can fight poverty, ignorance and terrorism.

Ignorance has no beginning, but it has an end. There is a beginning but no end to knowledge.

Infallibility and invincible ignorance are the same thing.

Unbelief, in distinction from disbelief, is a confession of ignorance where honest inquiry might easily find the truth. - "Agnostic" is but the Greek for "ignoramus."

Concerning no subject would [George Bernard] Shaw be deterred by the minor accident of total ignorance from penning a definitive opinion.

The lottery is a tax on ignorance, and all the losers that play the game are paying the price for their stupidity.

The affections are the children of ignorance; when the horizon of our experience expands, and models multiply, love and admiration imperceptibly vanish.

Being unable to cure death, wretchedness, and ignorance, men have decided, in order to be happy, not to think about such things.

The way to eliminate ignorance is through steady, focused discrimination between the observer and the world.

The things best to know are first principles and causes, but these things are perhaps the most difficult for men to grasp, for they are farthest removed from the senses.

To most of us nothing is so invisible as an unpleasant truth. Though it is held before our eyes, pushed under our noses, rammed down our throats- we know it not.

Dogmatism is by far the best fall-back defense, the most impregnable castle, that ignorance can find. It's also a dead give-away that the person doesn't know why he believes what he believes.

This solidity is not true. The apparent solidity is the delusion of the senses and of the self. Everything is made up of infinite, intelligent light.

Ignorance is a poor tool in a battle of wits.

The trouble with most of us is that we know too much that ain't so.

Ignorance is never out of style. It was in fashion yesterday, it is the rage today and it will set the pace tomorrow.