Ignorance Quotes

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."

Infallibility and invincible ignorance are the same thing.

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

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

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.

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.

Ignorance is a poor tool in a battle of wits.

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.

Whoever interrupts the conversation of others to make a display of his fund of knowledge, makes notorious his own stock of ignorance.

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

We are ignorant of what it is we do not know even though we know more than we can ever say

If wisdom was to cease throughout the world, no one would suspect himself of ignorance.

Wisdom makes light the darkness of ignorance.

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

We are more pained by ignorance than delighted by instruction.

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

My proof convinces the ignorant, and the wise man's proof convinces me. But he whose reasoning falls between wisdom and ignorance, I neither can convince him, nor can he convince me.

When ignorance does not know something, it says that what it does not know is stupid.

What the world has to eradicate is fear and ignorance.

To try to write a grand cosmical drama leads necessarily to myth. To try to let knowledge substitute ignorance in increasingly larger regions of space and time is science.

I have never found criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.

A lot of people felt defeated and hopeless by Trump's election. But I feel his election should energize people to resist apathy, ignorance, sexism, xenophobia, and racism.

Wars and temper tantrums are the makeshifts of ignorance; regrets are illuminations come too late.

Ignorance once dispelled is difficult to reestablish.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance.

Rise above the deceptions and temptations of the mind. This is your duty. You are born for this only; all other duties are self-created and self-imposed owing to ignorance.

To use a big word or a foreign word when a small one and a familiar one will answer the same purpose, is a sign of ignorance. Great scholars and writers and polite speakers use simple words.

Ignorance ain't not knowin' stuff; ignorance is knowin' stuff that AIN'T TRUE.

The bad one is that way because of the ignorance, therefore he can be healed with wisdom.

I know nothing but the certainty of my own ignorance.

What good are laws that cannot be read or understood, or a tongue that spews only hatred or ignorance? What good is the written word to an illiterate man?

I envy animals for two things - their ignorance of evil to come, and their ignorance of what is said about them.

[The Catholic convent] had been like the Valley of the Shadow of Death, and there are white scars on my soul, where ignorance and superstition burnt me with their hell fire in those stifling days.

Dogs, also, bark at what they do not know.

Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase.

For as there are misanthropists, or haters of men, there are also misologists, or haters of ideas, and both spring from the same cause, which is ignorance of the world.

Most of the damage we cause to the planet is the result of our own ignorance.

Fear is just another word for ignorance.

I prefer the discipline of knowledge to the anarchy of ignorance.

There is nothing so costly as ignorance.

Hidden knowledge differs little from ignorance.

There are three degrees of comparison: stupido, stupidissimo, and tenore.

Even as a youngster, though, I could not bring myself to believe that if knowledge presented danger, the solution was ignorance.

Sternly, remorselessly, fate guides each of us; only at the beginning, when we're absorbed in details, in all sorts of nonsense, in ourselves, are we unaware of its harsh hand.

Theories that diseases are caused by mental states and can be cured by will power, are always an index of how much is not understood about the physical terrain of a disease.

Let no-one ignorant of geometry enter. Said to have been inscribed above the door of Plato's Academy.

If you really want to change the world, you must first understand it adequately, or all you will do is reproduce in larger numbers your own ignorance.

Depraved conscience turns out to be as different from genuine ignorance as it is from honest recognition.