Ignorance Quotes
I gave no prescriptions, And those who have taken my moods for prophecies Mistake the matter.
The general plot of life is sometimes shaped by the different ways genuine intelligence combines with equally genuine ignorance.
Ignorance makes for weakness and fear; knowledge gives strength and confidence. Nothing surprises an intellect that knows all things with a sense of discrimination.
Study and research into truth often only serves to make us see by experience our natural ignorance.
To conceal ignorance is to increase it. An honest confession of it, however, gives ground for the hope that it will diminish some day or the other.
The lower animals are our brethren. I include among them the lion and the tiger. We do not know how to live with these carnivorous beasts and poisonous reptiles because of our ignorance.
The hardest heart and the grossest ignorance must disappear before the rising sun of suffering without anger and without malice.
According to a charming law of nature which is evident even in the most sophisticated societies, we live in complete ignorance of whatever we love.
It is thus that we walk through the world like the blind, not knowing whither we are going, regarding as bad what is good, regarding as good what is bad, and ever in entire ignorance.
In my country we say that ignorance is the warm bath in which it is comfortable to sit but dangerous to lie down.
What wise God would consign a man to Hell for ignorance, instead of teaching him better in the afterlife?
I always did hate for anyone to know what my plans or hopes or prospects werefor, if I kept people in ignorance in these matters, no one could be disappointed but myself, if they were not realized.
Knowledge is leagued with the universe, and findeth a friend in all things; but ignorance is everywhere a stranger, unwelcome; ill at ease and out of place.
from you, my dear Erasmus, let me obtain this request, that just as I bear with your ignorance in these matters, so you in turn will bear with my lack of eloquence.
Every mob, in its ignorance and blindness and bewilderment, is a League of Frightened Men that seeks reassurance in collective action.
Nothing fosters courage like a clear grasp of grace... & nothing fosters fear like an ignorance of mercy
If I wanted to write, I had to be willing to develop a kind of concentration found mostly in people awaiting execution. I had to learn technique and surrender my ignorance.
When I forgive other people, I let them go, I free them from my ignorance. And as soon as I do, I feel lighter, brighter and better.
There is a lot of ignorance, and I don't mean intellectual ignorance. I mean people think that if you get something, it will take away from what I have. It's just ignorance.
Bewilderment is often the child of the ignorance! If you are bewildered to some things, it means that you are not yet a wise man!
Death people who are still alive at this hour, must resurrect and ascend to the intellectual heaven where there is no ignorance.
They are possibly the dumbest people on the planet... We Americans suffer from an enforced ignorance. We don't know about anything that's happening outside our country. Our stupidity is embarrassing.
My mum taught me how to read before I went to kindergarden, I always thought that being able to read provided lightness, help to dispel darkness, ignorance and stupidity.
I don't like writing as an expert. I like writing as an amateur. I like writing as an idiot. It's much more fun to start in ignorance.
One of the most irresponsible things we can do is eat in ignorance, without any awareness of what our eating is doing to the world or to other species.
In North America, the greatest threat to the Jewish people is not the external force of antisemitism, but the internal forces of apathy, inertia and ignorance of our own heritage.
Whoever will imagine a perpetual confession of ignorance, a judgment without leaning or inclination, on any occasion whatever, hasa conception of Pyrrhonism.
Ignorance is my least favorite thing. I really think it's at the core of all our problems.
The only true conquests-those that awaken no regrets- are those obtained over our ignorance.
Perhaps, thought Talon, there was a path in between. A way to shed their ignorance without losing their souls.
Scientific literacy is an intellectual vaccine against the claims of charlatans who would exploit ignorance.
Science is a philosophy of discovery; intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance... Something fundamamental is going on in people's minds when they confront things they don't understnd.
The Buddha always reminds us that our afflictions, including our fear and our desiring, are born from our ignorance. That is why in order to dissipate fear, we have to remove wrong perception.