Ignorance Quotes

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

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

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

I dream of a world liberated of all diseases. Ignorance also upsets me a lot. How can one calmly look at the pictures from Rwanda and not instantly want to take action and try to ease the suffering?

no people can be both ignorant and free.

But to live in ignorance on such a point was impossible.

had no need of a guide to learn ignorance

The devil lives in our mistakes, the lord lives in our rights. Who lives in our ignorance, and who wins after all?

I don't know what humor is.

Oh, the ignorance of us upon whom Providence did not sufficiently smile to permit us to be born in New England.

It is important to know the stories and histories of things, even if all we know is that we don't know.

Everyone calls barbarity what he is not accustomed to.

The enemy is the tyranny of the dull mind.

Ignorance is the world's most curable affliction.

The truth. Men will blind themselves with hot irons, rather than face it.

His progress through life was hampered by his tremendous sense of his own ignorance, a disability which affects all too few.

I died last night. Seventy years too young.

. . . there is a wish in the heart of mankind to be distracted and confused. Truth is but one attraction, and not always the most powerful.

Strange are the pictures of the future that mankind can thus draw with this brush of faith and these many-coloured pigments of the imagination! Strange, too, that no one of them tallies with another!

The valuable attributes of research men are conscious ignorance and active curiosity.

It is never just disagreement but always intellectual dishonesty that is the apologist's worst enemy. And its apprentice is ignorance.

The truth is like salt. Men want to taste a little, but too much makes everyone sick.

Is it not ignorance that we share? A lie takes two. The truth we find alone.

That’s the first step to learning: admitting what you don’t know.

It is better to doubt that a concept is stupidly flying under your head than profoundly flying over your head.

What a refreshing mind you have, young man. There really is nothing quite like total ignorance, is there?

It’s ever been the way of the man of science or philosophy. Most folks stay in the dark and then complain they can’t see nothing.” – Snipes (185)

The greater ignorance towards a country is not ignoring what its politicians have to say, it is ignoring what the inmates in its prisons have to say.

The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is.

Creators of history always play with our impotence and our ignorance.

People are afraid of being more ignorant than their children―especially, apparantly, their daughters.

Anything was better than nothing. Half-full was better than empty. Ignorance was the lowest form of humiliation and suffering.

Let our information and social technologies raise awareness and not propaganda, build connections and not passive-aggression.

Never take advice about never taking advice. That is an old vice of men - to dish it out without being able to take it - the blind leading the blind into more blindness.

A number of our scientists boast intelligence but lack wisdom. I find those to be the predictable ones.

It's a fact that people are afraid of what they don't understand. And most are too lazy or ignorant to find out more.

I expect what you're not aware of would fill several books, Dursely.

Ignorance cannot always be inferred from inaccuracy; knowledge is not always present.

What is hid is unknown: for what is unknown there is no desire. [Lat., Quod latet ignotum est; ignoti nulla cupido.]

Only the stupefying ignorance of young women prevents them from comprehending the stupefying emptiness of the men who cluster round them.

The ignorance of French society gives one a rough sense of the infinite.

Racial prejudice is of ignorance. There is no place for it.

People talk about revelation, and say it has ceased; but what ignorance it bespeaks, when man knows not the least thing on earth without revelation.

Truth is better for humanity than ignorance, lies, or spin. And it's more interesting.

If one neglects the laws of learning, a sentence is imposed that he is forever chained to his ignorance.

The truth is that our race survived ignorance; it is our scientific genius that will do us in.

Unbelievers enjoy the security of their unbelief; there is great confidence in ignorance.

Bloom never pissed me off because there are critics out there, and he's one of them, who take their ignorance about popular culture as a badge of intellectual prowess.

Join me in standing up against any actual knowledge about guns. Let the CDC know they can take away our ignorance when the pry it from our cold dead minds.

If you are bombarded by so many thoughts in solitude, you are in ignorance. If you are calm even amidst a crowd then you are in knowledge.