Ignorance Quotes

I have never found criticism is ever inhibited by 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.

What the world has to eradicate is fear and ignorance.

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

So oft in theologic wars, The disputants, I ween, Rail on in utter ignorance Of what each other mean, And prate about an Elephant Not one of them has seen!

Schools teach ignorance.

The road to ignorance is paved with good editions. Only the illiterate can afford to buy good books now.

Just try to be yourself and resist complacency and ignorance. All you can do is work, work; work and be disciplined.

There is nothing more frightful than an active ignorance. [Ger., Es ist nichts schrecklicher als eine thatige Unwissenheit.]

Contemporary criticism only represents the amount of ignorance genius has to contend with. . . . Time will reverse the judgement of the vulgar.

When the world is destroyed, it will be destroyed not by its madmen but by the sanity of its experts and the superior ignorance of its bureaucrats.

Those who brush off the Biblical accounts as "ancient fiction" and "legends" only reveal their ignorance of these archaeological discoveries.

Opinion of ghosts, ignorance of second causes, devotion to what men fear, and talking of things casual for prognostics, consisteth the natural seeds of religion

Prudery is ignorance.

It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is worth more. [Fr., Rien n'est si dangereux qu'un ignorant ami; Mieux vaudrait un sage ennemi.]

In the schoolroom her quick mind had taken readily that strong starch of unexplained rules and disconnected facts which saves ignorance from any painful sense of limpness.

Nothing convinces persons of a weak understanding so effectually, as what they do not comprehend.

The darkness, of which the historians complain, is essentially the darkness of their own ignorance.

I suspect people would be in for a real shock if they knew the depths of his [Obama's] historical ignorance.

Ignorance plays the chief part among men, and the multitude of words.

Since fear is mostly about ignorance, the best part is that it's as temporary as you choose.

Education is man's going forward from cocksure ignorance to thoughtful uncertainty.Where there is an open mind there will always be a frontier.

His life, measured in space and time, will take up a mere few lines, which my ignorance will abbreviate further.

The notion that better engineering can solve all our problems is rooted in an ignorance of non-linear systems and selective/wishful thinking.

...not everyone is willing to defend a position of 'not knowing.' There is no virtue in ignorance for its own sake.

Why does everyone have to pretend to be stupid and not know long words?

The thing about stereotyping is it's usually just throwing rocks into a crowd hoping to hit somebody who deserves it.

Nothing sways the stupid more than arguments they can't understand.

originality and a feeling of one's own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle.

Fear is the only true enemy, born of ignorance and the parent of anger and hate.

Ignorance is not bliss. It is the kiss of death.

Knowledge is Power. Ignorance is Bliss. But curiosity—even if it had killed the cat—is king.

Ignorance is death, Knowledge is life.

I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man's life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder of truth.

Knowledge is a collective enterprise. Without it understanding is impossible. Ignorance is too often a murderous vulnerability.

The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.

All that lives is striving for happiness; yet a thousand and one pains and fears attend upon every pleasure which man seeks through the ignorance of exclusiveness.

The spiritual quest is a journey without distance. You travel from where you are right now To where you have always been. From ignorance to recognition.

Tyrants are but the spawn of Ignorance, Begotten by the slaves they trample on.

I envy your ignorance, I hear that it's bliss.

Do not hide your ignorance, because somebody might help you! Hiding always prolongs the problems.

Cynics and critics wake us up. Kindness often covers up the truth and allows us to sleep on in our ignorance.

If you don't let a teacher know what level you are -- by asking a question, or revealing your ignorance -- you will not learn or grow

A burning itch to know is higher than a solemn vow to pursue truth. To feel the burning itch of curiosity requires both that you be ignorant, and that you desire to relinquish your ignorance.

Books cannot teach God, but they can destroy ignorance; their action is negative.

Ignorance of true pleasure more frequently than temptation to that which is false, leads to vice.

I wonder why it is that when I plan a route too carefully, it goes to pieces, whereas if I blunder along in blissful ignorance aimed in a fancied direction I get through with no trouble.

For entrepreneurs, ignorance is not bliss. It's fatal. It's costly. And it's for losers. You either get organized, or get crushed.

Know not what you know, and see not what you see. [Lat., Etiam illud quod scies nesciveris; Ne videris quod videris.]