Ignorance Quotes

The last thing it [government] ought to do is to ground its proceedings on the ignorance of the people, - to yield them that which they will hereafter despise the donors for granting them.

It is ignorance that causes most mistakes.

Ignorance, poverty, and greed must disappear so that light can prevail in all places.

When ignorance mobilizes, it's always the free minds it destroys first.

The world is full of small ignorances. We must all do our best to ignore them and thereby keep them small, don't you think

If ignorance and passion are the foes of popular morality, it must be confessed that moral indifference is the malady of the cultivated classes.

Chance ... must be something more than the name we give to our ignorance.

The less a tourist knows, the fewer mistakes he need make, for he will not expect himself to explain ignorance.

The only sin in the world is ignorance.

If it is necessary, omit one bridge over the river, go round a little there, and throw one arch at least over the darker gulf of ignorance which surrounds us.

A man's ignorance sometimes is not only useful, but beautiful-while his knowledge, so called, is oftentimes worse than useless, besides being ugly.

The savage lives simply through ignorance and idleness or laziness, but the philosopher lives simply through wisdom.

How can he remember well his ignorance - which his growth requires - who has so often to use his knowledge?

The child should have the advantage of ignorance as well as of knowledge, and is fortunate if he gets his share of neglect and exposure.

We are at full stop. We think we have arrived.

Once ignorance is weaponized, violence seems to be a tragic inevitability.

And some men are as ignorant of what they do when awake as they are forgetful of what they do when asleep.

It is better to conceal ignorance than to expose it.

A whipper-snapper of criticism who quoted dead languages to hide his ignorance of life.

Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.

I'm against ignorance.

Ignorance is the father of all fear.

Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it pure ignorance?

Who ne'er knew salt, or heard the billows roar.

Man's condition is horrible because, no matter what form his happiness may take, it arises from some species of ignorance.

Knowledge has its boundary line, where it abuts on ignorance; on the outside of that boundary line are ignorance and miracles; on the inside of it are science and no miracles.

But let a man know that there are things to be known, of which he is ignorant, and it is so much carved out of his domain of universal knowledge.

It is a glorious occupation, vivifying and self-sustaining in its nature, to struggle with ignorance, and discover to the inquiring minds of the masses the clear cerulean blue of heavenly truth.

Probability fractions arise from our knowledge and from our ignorance.

To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn.

It was easy to cover up ignorance by the mystical word "intuition.

What clinical lectures I will give in heaven, demonstrating the ignorance of doctors!

Respectfully, 'Awkward Black Girl' was never meant to be politically correct. We poke fun at ignorance.

Many infidels have maintained that Ignorance is the mother of Devotion.

We live at a time when emotions and feelings count more than truth, and there is a vast ignorance of science

It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence.

Ignorance is a self-generating state of mind; one of its characteristics is that it doesn't recognize itself as ignorance.

Fish are not the best authority on water.

The past was still a Golden Age, of ignorance, while the present is an Iron Age of willful bliss.

Whoever said ignorance was bliss was shortsighted.

Is political discourse still just shouting opinions about subjective, hot-button issues based on poor understanding and outright ignorance about which agreements can never be reached?

To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.

You may be ignorant of all the books in the world, and I hope you are, of all the latest theories, but that is not ignorance.

Ignorance is more than bliss, it's freaking orgasmic ecstacy!

If ignorance goes to forty dollars a barrel, I want drilling rights to George Bush's head.

Is it ignorance or apathy, I forget the lessons taught to me.

We rather confess our moral errors, faults, and crimes than our ignorance.

The idea of protoplasm, which was really a name for our ignorance, [is] only a little less misleading than the expression "Vital force".

It would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility "faith"! (Institutio III.2.3)

For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.