Ignorance Quotes

Thoroughly conscious ignorance is the prelude to every real advance in science.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm the...

During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What have...

Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dri...

The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen o...

But Catherine did not know her own advantages - did not know that a good-looking girl, with an affec...

She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance - a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they sho...

Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one...

But to live in ignorance on such a point was impossible.

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

Prejudice is a product of ignorance that hides behind barriers of tradition.

Ignorance is always afraid of change.

Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.

To write a good love letter you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say and to finish w...

If there was an elephant in the supermarket, she'd either not see it at all, or call it Mrs Jones an...

There is always a city. There is always a civilisation. There is always a barbarian with a pickaxe. ...

We are not encouraged, on a daily basis, to pay careful attention to the animals we eat. On the cont...

I didn’t answer her. All I could have said was I don’t know, a sentence that was becoming a kind of ...

It was a test of a fragile trust. It was a test of our curiosity and fascination, which walked side ...

It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it...

There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The firs...

The question of whether or not there is a God or truth or reality or whatever you like to call it, c...

Time after time, history demonstrates that when people don't want to believe something, they have en...

Ignorance is not bad faith. But persistence in ignorance is.

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitutio...

We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the...

I would wish that people would accept people for who they are, not be judgmental, allow people to li...

God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escape...

It would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility "faith"!(Institutio III....

You do realize as you grow older that almost nobody knows what they are talking about.

The greater our knowledge increases the greater our ignorance unfolds.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

People think the Beatles know what's going on. We don't. We're just doing it.

Living is Easy with Eyes Closed.

The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance wh...

It is true that a great statesman is he who knows when to depart from traditions, as well as when to...

If anyone else asked that question, O He Who Is Terrible and Great, I would have said they were an i...

We have a very precise image - an image at times shameless - of what we have lost, but we are ignora...

It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.

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

The Iraq War was the biggest issue for people of my generation in the West. It was also the clearest...

Ignorance never yet helped anybody.

Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.

It’s ignorant to think you know everything about a person. There’s many different sides to everybody...

Ignorance and prejudice are the handmaidens of propaganda. Our mission, therefore, is to confront ig...

The good Lord set definite limits on man's wisdom but set no limits on his stupidity - and that's j...

Now then, Mr. Crab," said the zebra, "here are the people I told you about; and they know more than ...

To know that you do not know is the best.To think you know when you do not is a disease.Recognizing ...

If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.

truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not g...

Misunderstanding arising from ignorance breeds fear, and fear remains the greatest enemy of peace.

The greatest of all the accomplishments of 20th century science has been the discovery of human igno...

I have always wanted to be somebody but I see now I should have been more specific.

...Writings can be stolen, or changed, or used for evil purposes. But isn't the risk worth taking? T...

The world demands I make good choices on no information, and then blames my maidenhood for my mistak...

Only one who has learned much can fully appreciate his ignorance.

...the way I figure, no man has the right to be ignorant. In a country like this, ignorance is a cri...

For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian──ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, wh...

The knowledge from an enlightened person breaks on the hard rocks of ignorance.

Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it...

All the great evils which men cause to each other because of certain intentions, desires, opinions, ...

His sisters -- my aunts -- did not go to school at all, just like millions of girls in my country. E...

So what I had believed to be nothing to me was simply my entire life. How ignorant one is of oneself...

What you don’t know won’t hurt you. A dubious maxim: sometimes what you don’t know can hurt you very...

How could I have been so ignorant? she thinks. So stupid, so unseeing, so given over to carelessness...

I would like to be without shame. I would like to be shameless. I would like to be ignorant. Then I ...

Don't judge what you don't know.

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

But through years of myth-making and fear-sowing, Christianity meta-morphosed antichrists into a sin...

All this misjudgment that we have of each other is based on ignorance. The second you get to travel,...

To know you are ignorant is the beginning of wisdom,” Viviane said. “Then, when you begin to learn, ...

When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. B...

It is strange the way the ignorant and inexperienced so often and so undeservedly succeed when the i...

Well, there was a sort of bastard justice in his view of the case, and so I dropped the matter. When...

Ah, heavens and earth, friend, if you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, yo...

For a little while, hope made a show of reviving-not with any reason to back it, but only because it...

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

Let us all hope that the dark clouds of racial prejudice will soon pass away and the deep fog of mis...

Scientists habitually moan that the public doesn't understand them. But they complain too much: publ...

Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.

Either god exists or it doesn’t exist. If a god does exist, it either interacts with the universe in...

The devil lives in our mistakes, the lord lives in our rights. Who lives in our ignorance, and who w...

Words are things. You must be careful, careful about calling people out of their names, using racial...

Ignorance is a terrible thing. It causes families to lose their center and causes people to lose the...

Inexperience can be overcome, ignorance can be enlightened, but prejudice will destroy you.

How merciful a thing is man's ignorance of his immediate future! What a ghastly, paralysing thing it...

A wonderful area for speculative academic work is the unknowable. These days religious subjects are ...

The men on the trading floor may not have been to school, but they have Ph.D.’s in man’s ignorance.

Eating is an agricultural act,' as Wendell Berry famously said. It is also an ecological act, and a ...

Much of our food system depends on our not knowing much about it, beyond the price disclosed by the ...

Did I know myself less, I might perhaps venture to handle something or other to the bottom, and to b...

...were these Essays of mine considerable enough to deserve a critical judgment, it might then, I th...

Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.

It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.

Memory cannot be understood, either, without a mathematical approach. The fundamental given is the r...

A man is responsible for his ignorance.

It’s very simple. As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed at twenty-two, you’d always be as ignor...

A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.

The biggest battle is the war against ignorance.