Ignorance Quotes
If you belonged to a political party or a social club that was tied to as much bigotry, misogyny, homophobia, violence, and sheer ignorance as religion is, you'd resign in protest.
The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.
It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.
Fullness of knowledge always means some understanding of the depths of our ignorance and that is always conducive to humility and reverence.
The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.
Aversion toward the blind exists for the same reason that most prejudices exist: lack of knowledge. Ignorance is a powerful generator of fear. And fear slides easily into aggression and contempt.
All this misjudgment that we have of each other is based on ignorance. The second you get to travel, you see that human beings, no matter where they come from, they are the same.
It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object beware of this stumbling block.
Sixty years ago I knew everything now I know nothing education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
To pine for the days before public education became a practical reality is to pine for an America held back by mass ignorance and mass illiteracy.
It's hard for me to stay silent when I keep hearing that peace is only attainable through war. There's nothing more scary than watching ignorance in action.
We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.
In practice, socialism didn't work. But socialism could never have worked because it is based on false premises about human psychology and society, and gross ignorance of human economy.