Ignorance Quotes

The trouble ain't that people are ignorant: it's that they know so much that ain't so.

There is nothing more frightening than ignorance in action.

When an idea is wanting a word can always be found to take its place.

If ignorance is indeed bliss it is a very low grade of the article.

Not ignorance but ignorance of ignorance is the death of knowledge.

Ignoramus: a person unacquainted with certain kinds of knowledge familiar to yourself and having certain other kinds that you know nothing about.

Ignorance is no excuse it's the real thing.

The good Lord set definite limits on man's wisdom but set no limits on his stupidity - and that's just not fair.

A weak mind does not accumulate force enough to hurt itself stupidity often saves a man from going mad.

Little wit in the head makes much work for the feet.

The little I know I owe to my ignorance.

And here poor fool with all my lore I stand no wiser than before.

You can do one of two things just shut up which is something I don't find easy or learn an awful lot very fast which is what I tried to do.

Ignorance is no excuse-it's the real thing.

My doctrine is this that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop and do nothing we make ourselves sharers in the guilt.

Whenever two good people argue over principles they are both right.

Progress results only from the fact that there are some men and women who refuse to believe that what they know to be right cannot be done.

The Wright brothers flew through the smoke screen of impossibility.

The good thing about being young is that you are not experienced enough to know you cannot possibly do the things you are doing.

The young do not know enough to be prudent and therefore they attempt the impossible-and achieve it generation after generation.

Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway.

An impossibility does not disturb us until its accomplishment shows what fools we were.

Once you start asking questions innocence is gone.

God may have been waiting for centuries for somebody ignorant enough of the impossible to do that thing.

Great things are accomplished by those who do not feel the impotence of man. This ... is a precious gift.

So long as we think dugout canoes are the only possibility-all that is real or can be real-we will never see the ship we will never feel the free wind blow.

The greatest wisdom often consists in ignorance.

To measure up to all that is demanded of him a man must overestimate his capacities.

Today if you are not confused you are not thinking clearly.

Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.

I don't know what I'm doing. I don't know what actors do.

In baseball you don't know nothing.

Unprovided with original learning unformed in the habits of thinking unskilled in the arts of composition I resolved to write a book.

When Columbus started out he didn't know where he was going when he got there he didn't know where he was and when he got back he didn't know where he had been.

It is a sign of strength not of weakness to admit that you don't know all the answers.

Whatever people in general do not understand they are always prepared to dislike the incomprehensible is always the obnoxious.

One learns by doing the thing for though you think you know it you have no certainty until you try.

No one knows what he can do until he tries.

The true test of character is ... how we behave when we don't know what to do.

Nothing in this world can one imagine beforehand not the least thing. Everything is made up of so many unique particulars that cannot be foreseen.

The work will teach you how to do it.

Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of wha. I do not know.

Where ignorance is bliss Tis folly to be wise.

It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing.

In the clashes between ignorance and intelligence, ignorance is generally the aggressor.

A person must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.

My family and I held no hatred for those people because we realized they were victims of their own ignorance.