Ignorance Quotes

Human beings are innately loving beings. When we fail to love, it is because an element of ignorance has intruded into our experience, submerging our natural impulse to love.

What can there be concerning outer space but ignorance?

Education is imposed ignorance.

Is everyone who lives in Ignorance like you?" asked Milo. "Much worse," he said longingly. "But I don't live here. I'm from a place very far away called Context.

Fifty per cent of the public doesn't know what 'fifty per cent' means.

Travelers perceptions do not always reflect the reality of a situation, and ignorance is costing the industry billions.

Never ascribe to conspiracy that which can be attributed to ignorance.

God is represented as infinite, eternal, incomprehensible; he is contained under every predicate in non that the logic of ignorance could fabricate.

Mental illnesses are so frightening and there's so much ignorance about them that I think it comforts people to think, 'Oh, well, it happens to these people because they deserve it.'

Our single greatest defense against scientific ignorance is education, and early in the life of every scientist, the child's first interest was sparked by a teacher.

Anything we do to fight misery and ignorance and poverty, no matter how imperfect it may be, is still better than doing nothing at all.

When you're dealing with the universe, ignorance can be deadly.

Most books are about aspects of human knowledge - Few people write books about human ignorance, despite the fact that there would be much more to write about

The only people who ever prize purity of ignorance are those who profit from a monopoly on knowledge.

What is hid is unknown: for what is unknown there is no desire. [Lat., Quod latet ignotum est; ignoti nulla cupido.]

Only the stupefying ignorance of young women prevents them from comprehending the stupefying emptiness of the men who cluster round them.

One way in which fools succeed where wise men fail is that through ignorance of the danger they sometimes go coolly about a hazardous business.

I believe every change any word has undergone probably originated in ignorance.

Armies are dependent on youthful male ignorance.

Ignorance is the Mother of Devotion.

For I say this is death and the sole death,- When a man's loss comes to him from his gain, Darkness from light, from knowledge ignorance, And lack of love from love made manifest.

Of power does Man possess no particle: Of knowledge-just so much as show that still It ends in ignorance on every side.

Understanding is better than ignorance. Ignorance, unlike life, unlike narrative, is static. Understanding implies a forward motion, thus the possibility of change.

Ignorance is the worst form of slavery. (Paraphrased)

There is no slavery but ignorance.

Science is not a vast encyclopedia, it is a thin flame of reason burning across ample reservoirs of ignorance.

The tragedy of ignorance is its complacency.

I'd obviously never heard of the group, but my ignorance in literary matters is to blame for that (every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me).

Ignorance might be bliss, but it's irresponsible and dangerous too.

Ignorance is not a suitable defense

We have a greater responsibility to act than those who live in ignorance. Once you become knowledgeable, you have an obligation to do something about it.

We can choose between the future and the past, between reason and ignorance, between true compassion and mere ideology.

It's a phony issue. To pretend the death penalty is going to end crime in the United States is to fool people, to promote public ignorance.

Ignorance in this degree, concentrated in both the head and belly of a lumbering superpower, is now a problem for the entire world.

Theology is now little more than a branch of human ignorance.

Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal.

Ignorance cannot always be inferred from inaccuracy; knowledge is not always present.

The man who feels himself ignorant should, at least, be modest.

A coxcomb is ugly all over with the effectation of a fine gentleman.

Human values are born with man. They are not got from outside. Man in his ignorance is not aware of these values. when man sheds his ignorance, he will experience his divine nature.

Our posterity will wonder about our ignorance of things so plain.

Death falls heavily on that man who, known too well to others, dies in ignorance of himself.

Bits of ignorance are like viruses that are copied and spread by interaction.

What is gained through ignorance is bound to be lost through ignorance

The curse of ignorance is that man without being good or evil is nevertheless satisfied with himself

Racial prejudice is of ignorance. There is no place for it.

If you are bombarded by so many thoughts in solitude, you are in ignorance. If you are calm even amidst a crowd then you are in knowledge.

Join me in standing up against any actual knowledge about guns. Let the CDC know they can take away our ignorance when the pry it from our cold dead minds.

Bloom never pissed me off because there are critics out there, and he's one of them, who take their ignorance about popular culture as a badge of intellectual prowess.

Unbelievers enjoy the security of their unbelief; there is great confidence in ignorance.