Ignorance Quotes
My god how gentle you are with me in spite of my great ignorance and how merciful You are with me in spite of my ugly deeds
The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.
All suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their happiness or satisfaction.
A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance.
In a democracy, we have always had to worry about the ignorance of the uneducated. Today we have to worry about the ignorance of people with college degrees.
The evil that is in the world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding.
truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
For I found myself embarrassed with so many doubts and errors that it seemed to me that the effort to instruct myself had no effect other than th eincreasing discovery of my own ignorance
If in the darkness of ignorance, you don’t recognize a person’s true nature, look to see whom he has chosen for his leader.
Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all.
Therefore let us repent and pass from ignorance to knowledge, from foolishness to wisdom, from licentiousness to self-control, from injustice to righteousness, from godlessness to God.
Racism is a refuge for the ignorant. It seeks to divide and to destroy. It is the enemy of freedom, and deserves to be met head-on and stamped out.
To believe that you depend on things and people for happiness is due to ignorance of your true nature; to know that you need nothing to be happy, except Self-knowledge, is wisdom.
Want is one only of five giants on the road of reconstruction; the others are Disease, Ignorance, Squalor, and Idleness.
Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds; enthusiasm of the free and buoyant. Education and free discussion are the antidotes of both.
There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
It has become almost a cliché to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.
The worst part is not in making a mistake but in trying to justify it, instead of using it as a heaven-sent warning of our mindlessness or our ignorance.
If you have attained something, this is the surest proof that you have gone astray. Therefore, not to have is to have, silence is thunder, ignorance is enlightenment.
Too many of our countrymen rejoice in stupidity, look upon ignorance as a badge of honor. They condemn everything they don't understand.
Few things are more irritating than when someone who is wrong is also very effective in making his point.
There is no greater wealth than wisdom, no greater poverty than ignorance; no greater heritage than culture and no greater support than consultation.
Teach the student what needs to be taught. 'Cause black and white kids both take shorts When one doesn't know about the other one's culture, Ignorance swoops down like a vulture.
There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life.
God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray.
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.
The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant: 'What good is it?
Far and away, the greatest threat to the ocean, and thus to ourselves, is ignorance. But we can do something about that.
The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.
All the wars, all the hatred, all the ignorance in the world come out of being so invested in our opinions.
Only one who has learned much can fully appreciate his ignorance.
Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
Peace does not fare well where poverty and deprivation reign. It does not flourish where there is ignorance and a lack of education and information.
A true teacher does not terrorize ignorant students, because a true teacher knows that it is his job to cure ignorance.
