Ignorance Quotes

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

Slavery is the daughter of darkness: an ignorant people is a blind instrument of its own destruction

I examined the poets, and I look on them as people whose talent overawes both themselves and others,...

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

The soul attracted leaned to the Abyss:It longed for the adventure of Ignorance

Man has gone out to explore other worlds and other civilizations without having explored his own lab...

Religion forces every individual to take responsibility. Specifically, take it away from yourself an...

Read it wisely, Little One, for the power of ignorance is great.

It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile.

Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.

The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking o...

Ignorance is the mother of all the evil and all the misery we see. Let men have light, let them be p...

A winner knows how much he still has to learn, even when he is considered an expert by others; a los...

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance...

Anyone with half a mind could see that," said Tiffany.Miss Tick sighed. "Yes. But sometimes it's so ...

He stared at his feet. “I’m still very ignorant,” he said, “but at least I’m ignorant about really i...

His progress through life was hampered by his tremendous sense of his own ignorance, a disability wh...

On the Kite, the situation was being 'workshopped'. This is the means by which people who don't know...

Beware the man of a single book.

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

Where ignorance is bliss Tis folly to be wise.

No people who are ignorant can be truly free.

no people can be both ignorant and free.

Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds; enthusiasm of the free and buoyant. Education ...

May it [American independence] be to the world, what I believe it will be, (to some parts sooner, to...

May it [American independence] be to the world, what I believe it will be, (to some parts sooner, to...

...it is not to be understood that I am with him [Jesus] in all his doctrines. I am a Materialist, h...

If a nation expects to be ignorant & free, in a state of civilisation, it expects what never was & n...

All things considered, the happiest epitaph to have etched on one's headstone is this: 'He never kne...

You see how I live: shadows and silence, leaving things as I find them because I have no reason to d...

Innate in nearly every artistic nature is a wanton, treacherous penchant for accepting injustice whe...

Ignorance is of a peculiar nature; once dispelled, it is impossible to reestablish it. It is not ori...

Later times have laid all the blame upon the Goths and Vandals, but, however unwilling the partizans...

Later times have laid all the blame upon the Goths and Vandals, but, however unwilling the partizans...

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

Should a professor of accounting or chemistry be fired for using up class time to sound off about ho...

There have always been ignorant people, but they haven't always had college degrees to make them una...

Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.

Yes, now you know. Now you know! That's what it was to be alive. To move about in a cloud of ignoran...

Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.

People are inclined to accept all stories of ancient times in an uncritical way -even when those sto...

The enemy is the tyranny of the dull mind.

Can one come 2 conclusions,Before the question is conceived?

The unknown...the unforetold, the unproven, that is what life is based on. Ignorance is the ground o...

They let us be, here, in the cage of our ignorance.

Ignorance defends itself savagely, and illiteracy, as I well knew, can be shrewd.

Teach the ignorant as much as you can. Society is to blame for not giving free education: it is resp...

Ignorance breeds antipathy. Until I got to know how computers worked, I didn't want anything to do w...

Christian missions to India imply that India is a land of heathens, and, therefore, stands on the sa...

He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.

It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not...

had no need of a guide to learn ignorance

I have been studying for forty years, which is to say forty wasted years; I teach others yet am igno...

Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at ...

The Jews are an ignorant and barbarous people, who have long united the most sordid avarice with the...

Herein lies the tragedy of the age: not that men are poor, — all men know something of poverty; not ...

The degree of ignorance cannot easily be expressed. We may say, for instance, that nearly two-thirds...

Happy the hare at morning, for she cannot readThe hunter's waking thoughts.

Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.

Ignorance is king. Many would not profit by his abdication. Many enrich themselves by means of his d...

When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results.

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

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

Magic begins in superstition, and ends in science. ... At every step the history of civilization tea...

The less he understands something, the more firmly he believes in it.

America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.

Everybody is ignorant, Just on different subjects.

Sixty years ago I knew everything now I know nothing education is a progressive discovery of our own...

I don't know what humor is.

Everybody is ignorant only on different subjects.

An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.

Scientists rightly resist invoking the supernatural in scientific explanations for fear of committin...

To establish evolutionary interrelatedness invariably requires exhibiting similarities between organ...

Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy c...

We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit but the s...

We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit but the s...

We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit but the s...

We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit but the s...

we have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood

The only part of evolution in which any considerable interest is felt is evolution applied to man. A...

The first objection to Darwinism is that it is only a guess and was never anything more. It is calle...

Why, these men would destroy the Bible on evidence that would not convict a habitual criminal of a m...

The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.

Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent v...

In baseball you don't know nothing.

[American exceptionalism] is a reaction to the inability of people to understand global complexity o...

Most Americans are close to total ignorance about the world. They are ignorant. That is an unhealthy...

We have a large public that is very ignorant about public affairs and very susceptible to simplistic...

In the world everyone knows enough to pursue what he does not know, but no one knows enough to pursu...

Suppose I try saying something. What way do I have of knowing that if I say I know something I don't...

With all the confusion in the world these days, no matter how often I point the way, what good does ...