Ignorance Quotes

The privileges of knowledge have to be bought at the cost of the consolations of ignorance.

Shall ignorance of good and ill Dare to direct the eternal will? Seek virtue, and of that possest, To Providence resign the rest.

What is reality? Is it not merely a term for the philosopher to conjure with, behind which he may craftily conceal his ignorance?

There's a lot of ignorance about how long it takes to write a novel. There's a lot of ignorance about how long a novel is in your head before you start to write it.

The innocence which is simply ignorance is not virtue.

A man may live long, and die at last in ignorance of many truths, which his mind was capable of knowing, and that with certainty.

Though the familiar use of things about us take off our wonder, yet it cures not our ignorance.

The veil is slowly rising, but as regards innumerable questions we must be content to remain in ignorance.

Ignorance and confidence are constant companions

The wrongs done to trees, wrongs of every sort, are done in the darkness of ignorance and unbelief, for when the light comes, the heart of the people is always right.

To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.

There's an awful lot of biblical ignorance, and the church perpetuates that ignorance.

I do not believe 'Newsweek' is the only catcher in the rye between democracy and ignorance, but I think we're one of them, and I don't think there are that many on the edge of that cliff.

Elective ignorance was a great survival skill, perhaps the greatest.

An ignorance of Marx is as frequent among Marxists as an ignorance of Christ is among Catholics.

Misery and ignorance are always the cause of great evils. Misery is easily excited to anger, and ignorance soon yields to perfidious counsels.

She feared the unknown as we all do, and her ignorance made the unknown infinitely vast.

Ignorance is the wet-nurse of prejudice.

Man isn't a fool for his ignorance, but rather for believing things that are wrong.

I was a bad practicing physician because I was never sure of the diagnosis or of the treatment.

He always said she was smart, but their conversations were a mined field in which at any moment she might make the wrong verbal move and find her ignorance exploding in her face.

human honesty has its varieties; so does human ignorance.

When actresses jump on the anti-Iraq bandwagon, they often combine down-home momism with an ignorance of Islamist intent which is truly awesome.

Going to university is only one avenue to gain knowledge. There are others. A degree isn't insurance against ignorance.

It doesn't matter if your ignorant so long as you can find people to know stuff for you.

Ignorance is not something that lends itself to a meaningful discussion.

I plead total ignorance to Led Zeppelin. I am totally in the dark about them.

People are generally opposed to things they know nothing about.

I am philosophical Christ; crucified on the cross of ignorance for the sake of divine vanity.

Humble, honest, ignorance is one of the finest flowers of the human spirit

He is annoyed with their lack of interest, their blithe ignorance of the arbitrary genetic lottery that has granted them their privileged lives.

Let ignorance reproduce itself until it is weary of its own offspring.

To know one's ignorance is the best part of knowledge.

Conclusions are ignorance arrested on the path to less ignorance.

Ignorance, according to the Buddha, is our basic difficulty. Psychedelics and the process of aging make that clear to me all the time.

Promises made out of ignorance should not be kept.

Not knowing a thing is not ignorance. Feigning knowledge you don't have can be--Sholto

People cheat when they are afraid. When there is no cost to being wrong or confessing ignorance, there is no reason to cheat or fake comprehension.

Dieu, c'est le voile mystérieux sous lequel nous cachons notre ignorance de la cause première. God is the mysterious veil under which we hide our ignorance of the cause.

God is the mysterious veil under which we hide our ignorance of the cause.

The military world is characterized by the absence of freedom - in other words, a rigorous discipline-enforced inactivity, ignorance, cruelty, debauchery and drunkenness.

But ignorance is happiness,When young Hope is to show the way

We have reached the point where ignorance and neglect are the best we can hope for in a ruler.

[For American consumer society], the country's reserves of ignorance constitute a natural resource as precious as the Mississippi River or the long-lost herds of buffalo.

It is not so bad being ignorant if you are totally ignorant; the hard thing is knowing in some detail the reality of ignorance.

it is always difficult to impress the ignorant.

Uncultivated minds are not full of wild flowers, like uncultivated fields. Villainous weeds grow in them and they are the haunt of toads.

The most ignorant are the boldest conjecturers.

Our conjectures pass upon us for truths; we will know what we do not know, and often, what we cannot know: so mortifying to our pride is the base suspicion of ignorance.

The more one learns, the more he understands his ignorance.