Ignorance Quotes

Learning -the kind of ignorance affected by (and affecting) civilized races, as distinguished from ignorance, the sort of learning incurred by savages. See nonsense.

Book - Learning : The dunce's derisive term for all knowledge that transcends his own impertinent ignorance.

The future is a convenient place for dreams.

Arrogance is the conjoined twin of ignorance.

Ignorance is death. A closed mind is a catafalque.

Novelty does not require intelligence, but ignorance, which is why the young excel in this branch.

Fight death all your days, and die knowing you know nothing.

Ignorance is degrading only when found in company with great riches.

Wisdom is also a deeper consciousness of ignorance.

Worry is half impatience and half ignorance.

The greatest wisdom often consist in ignorance.

Perhaps growing up meant we put our knives away and feigned ignorance of the damage.

That's maturity-when you realize that you've finally arrived at a state of ignorance as profound as your parents.

To say I'm ignorant only proves your ignorance.

Art hath an enemy call'd ignorance .

Reading is the way out of ignorance, and the road to achievement.

The dictum that human nature cannot be changed is one of those tiresome platitudes that conceal from the ignorant the depths of their own ignorance.

Right conduct can never, except by some rare accident, be promoted by ignorance or hindered by knowledge.

The great mass of people judge well of things, for they are in natural ignorance, which is man's true state.

The level of ignorance is declining, and the ability to accumulate data and manipulate it for various ends is increasing.

I happen to have worked with male directors who don't understand women at all. Not at all. I'm flabbergasted by their ignorance.

Error, when she retraces her steps, has farther to go before she can arrive at truth than ignorance.

This son taught that any man who did not believe that piece of ignorance and priestly lying would go to hell and burn eternally in fire and brimstone.

If religion comes into the public square, it is as vulnerable as any other human institution to be pelted with produce. Ignorance does not become wisdom just because you gussy it up with the Gospels.

A brain you can convince, a simpleton you have to persuade.

As far as ignorance is concerned, not just Buddhism, every religion recognizes it as the source of suffering.

Ignorance is the source of hatred, and the way to get rid of ignorance is realization.

Science's job is to map our ignorance.

I lament the want of a liberal education. I feel the mist of ignorance to surround me - Nathanael Greene

America faces an enemy who believes in enforced ignorance. And all that we stand for is the open mind, the generous spirit, the ideal of tolerance, freedom, education, opportunity.

To break down prejudice is to get to a place of understanding, that can erode the ignorance.

Ignorance is jealousy's twin sister.

Ignorance isn't bliss, but sometimes ignorance makes it possible for us to sleep at night.

Ignorance is constricted awareness.

Sanity can take one of only two forms: that of ignorance, or denial.

I'll show you how," Peter said. "Stop hiding behind your ignorance.

That's through intelligence, not through ignorance, believe me. Because some of the things that they're asking you to do [in the Army] and be politically correct about are ridiculous.

It may not be in the constitution, but every American has a god-given right to provinciality and ignorance.

The intellectuals' chief cause of anguish are one another's works. Jacques Barzun, 1959 all ignorance toboggans into know and trudges up to ignorance again.

Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.

John McCain's choice of Sarah Palin as running mate is the towering example of his poor judgment. Palins ignorance of public affairs is monumental.

Many books have been written to show that Christianity has emasculated the world, that it shoved aside the enlightenment and wisdom of Hellas for a doctrine of superstition and ignorance.

The speculators deadly enemies are: Ignorance, greed, fear and hope. All the statute books in the world and all the rules of all the Exchanges on earth cannot eliminate these from the human animal.

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.

Talk faith. The world is better off without, Your uttered ignorance and morbid doubt.

The fact that I'd never really seen myself on screen allowed for a blissful ignorance. It didn't feel like a movie. I didn't have that self-consciousness. It was a game that I was playing.

What is a child? Ignorance. What is a child? Want of instruction.

Ignorance is ugly and is the result of a lack of education. Help change that by spreading knowledge, positivity, & love for your fellow man.

C++ is a language strongly optimized for liars and people who go by guesswork and ignorance.

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