Ignorance Quotes

A fool has more ideas than a wise man can foresee.

Racists have often used pseudoscience to justify their socially damaging views; watch these films to see how science, by replacing ignorance with knowledge, can undo that damage.

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

Plain intellectual thinking is the peak of ignorance because all that you will know is to play with a few aspects and make others look like fools.

It's not ignorance does so much damage; it's knowin' so derned much that ain't so.

The trouble with most folks isn't their ignorance. It's knowin' so many things that ain't so.

A cure by regression is homeopathic, like healing the damage done by ministers and ignorance with stupidity and Jesuits.

My ignorance is not charming.

Stupidity,--unconscious ignorance.

If ignorance is bliss, it's cuz she's never heard of this...

Ignorance is always ready to admire itself. Procure yourself critical friends.

It is among uneducated women that we may look for the most confirmed gossips. Goethe tells us there is nothing more frightful than bustling ignorance.

To admit ignorance is to exhibit wisdom.

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.

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

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

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.

Can anything be more absurd than keeping women in a state of ignorance, and yet so vehemently to insist on their resisting temptation?

The secret is not to betray your ignorance. Just maneuver, avoid the quicksands and obstacles, and the rest can be found in a dictionary.

Our knowledge will take its revenge on us, just as ignorance exacted its revenge during the Middle Ages.

Words sing. They hurt. They teach. They sanctify. They were man's first, immeasurable feat of magic. They liberated us from ignorance and our barbarous past.

In Buddhist teaching, ignorance is considered the fundamental cause of violence - ignorance... about the separation of self and other... about the consequences of our actions.

An enlightened person doesn't know it all. Enlightenment simply means walking beyond this and all worlds into nirvana, which is beyond knowledge and ignorance.

[How to train your dragon] is beautiful to look at and, again, those values that it contains about relationships, friendships, and bonding in the face of ignorance.

In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature, but in men it is a vice.

The ignorance of how to use knowledge stockpiles exponentially.

How long, I wonder, will ignorance spell purity and knowledge shame?

While contemporary non-Evangelicals have virtually reduced faith to 'courageous ignorance,' Evangelicals have hardly been faithful in defending God's objective communication of truth.

preach, my dear Sir, a crusade against ignorance; establish & improve the law for educating the common people.

I don't think you can ever regain your ignorance.

Nor am I ashamed, as some are, to confess my ignorance of those matters with which I am unacquainted.

I am now and have always been a stranger to the realm of practical matters.

Make war not on terrorism but on ignorance, on sickness and on environmental degradation.

We must know, if only in order to learn not to know. The supreme lesson of human consciousness is to learn how not to know. That is, how not to interfere.

I repent me of the ignorance wherein I ever said that God made man out of nothing: there is no nothing out of which to make anything; God is all in all, and he made us out of himself.

Ignorance is an enemy, even to its owner. Knowledge is a friend, even to its hater. Ignorance hates knowledge because it is too pure. Knowledge fears ignorance because it is too sure.

All that shimmers on the surface of the world, all that we call interesting, is the fruit of ignorance and inebriation.

An ignorant man ages like an ox. His flesh may increase, but not his understanding.

It is a virtue to admit ignorance when you don't know, but not to wallow in ignorance as an end in itself. People say if we don't believe god is watching over us, we abandon morality. Are they right?

Ignorance is not bliss. Bliss is knowing the full meaning of what you have been given.

Roving dogs do not indicate the civilisation or compassion of the society. They betray on the country the ignorance and lethargy of its members.

God is by definition the holder of all possible knowledge, it would be impossible for him to have faith in anything. Faith, then, is built upon ignorance and hope.

I believe that much of the maladjustment in our societies is caused, not by malevolence and corruption, but simply by ignorance.

It is debatable which is causing us more harm - hot-headed ignorance or cold-hearted intellectualism.

There are, however, some potentates I would kill by any and all means at my disposal. They are Ignorance, Superstition, and Bigotry — the most sinister and tyrannical rulers on earth.

By the word simplicity, is not always meant folly or ignorance; but often, pure and upright Nature, free from artifice, craft or deceitful ornament.

Sometimes presenting the most ignorant point of view can be the best way to satirize the issue and highlight that ignorance.

Throught human history, illusions of knowledge, not ignorance, have proven to be the principal obstacles to discovery

The knowledge of one generation is the ignorance of the next.