Ignorance Quotes

The truth is that our race survived ignorance; it is our scientific genius that will do us in.

If one neglects the laws of learning, a sentence is imposed that he is forever chained to his ignorance.

Truth is better for humanity than ignorance, lies, or spin. And it's more interesting.

Stand up to hypocrisy. If you don't, the hypocrites will teach. Stand up to ignorance, because if you don't, the ignorant will run free to spread ignorance like a disease.

Marriage or non-marriage, good or evil, learning or ignorance, any of these is justified, if it leads to the goal.

This idea of body is a simple superstition. It is superstition that makes us happy or unhappy. It is superstition caused by ignorance that makes us feel heat and cold, pain and pleasure.

To me the thought of oneself as low and humble is a sin and ignorance.

Cowards never win victories. We have to fight fear and troubles and ignorance if we expect them to flee before us.

And what causes fear? Ignorance of our own nature.

Ignorance is death, knowledge is life. Life is of very little value, if it is a life in the dark, groping through ignorance and misery.

Delusion will vanish as the light becomes more and more effulgent, load after load of ignorance will vanish, and then will come a time when all else has disappeared and the sun alone shines.

I think there's something about being a neophyte that's refreshing and hard to duplicate; it brings about real innovation. Innovation usually comes about through blind ignorance.

Ignorance is the biggest problem of all for the ocean - and for many other things as well.

Read widely of others' experiences, even if it'd be more comfortable to snuggle back in the comforting cotton-wool of blissful ignorance.

Ignorance is indeed bliss, but it is also dangerous and embarrassing.

The problem is that our inherent ignorance keeps us in samsara and unable to benefit ourselves and others on a really deep level.

Half-knowledge is worse than ignorance.

Perfect ignorance is quiet, perfect knowledge is quiet; not so the transition from the former to the latter.

Old heads as well as young may sometimes be charged with ignorance and presumption. The natural course of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.

A cold-blooded, calculation, unprincipled, usurper, without a virtue, no statesman, knowing nothing of commerce, political economy, or civil government, and supplying ignorance by bold presumption.

How strangely is antiquity treated! To answer some purposes it is spoken of as the times of darkness and ignorance, and to answer others, it is put for the light of the world.

Fear and ignorance are the key roots to racism.

Ridiculous modes, invented by ignorance, and adopted by folly.

Trump's ignorance in environmental science is a threat to the entire planet.

All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think.

Ignorance is poverty. Ignorance is pain. I don't want you to go through that. So what I'm trying to do is save you decades of time by bringing you the best.

I can't believe the ignorance there, so I don't allow it to affect my life, I don't allow it to come into my zone, and it's not in my world, really.

Our true enemies are: ignorance and limitation.

So long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Miserables cannot fail to be of use.

Love, thine is the future. Death, I use thee, but I hate thee. Citizens, there shall be in the future neither darkness nor thunderbolts; neither ferocious ignorance nor blood for blood.

The acquisition of knowledge always involves the revelation of ignorance-almost is the revelation of ignorance.

Those who judge children in their innocence, prove themselves the lesser of character and the greater of ignorance.

Mankind has the genius to bring all the world together and the ignorance to fight upon arrival.

Ignorance speaks loudly, so as to be heard; but its volume proves reason to doubt every word.

The value of hatred and ignorance is found in the fact that without them we could never truly appreciate wisdom and love.

Stupid is a condition. Ignorance is a choice.

There's lots of people - this town wouldn't hold them; Who don't know much excepting what's told them.

We are all ignorant. We are just ignorant about different things.

The common curse of mankind, folly, ignorance and stupidity.

You're an enemy of art and I pity your ignorance," Domingo said.

Wonder at the first sight of works of art may be the effect of ignorance and novelty; but real admiration and permanent delight in them are the growth of taste and knowledge.

There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund of conversation.

Vulgar prejudices are those which arise out of accident, ignorance, or authority; natural prejudices are those which arise out of the constitution of the human mind itself.

Poverty, discrimination, and ignorance restrict growth.

Ignorance is the mother of suspicion.

You can only manage to convince a person to admit to being wrong, not ignorant, arrogant, or stupid.

Not every person that speaks less than you do is more ignorant than you are.

The more you can escape from how horrible things really are, the less it's going to bother you...and then, the worse things get.

It takes a very long time to become young.

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.