Ignorance Quotes

When you're fighting for social justice, one of my biggest pet peeves is speaking out of ignorance.

Aristocracy's only an admission that certain traits which we call fine - courage and honor and beaut...

The ever more sophisticated weapons piling up in the arsenals of the wealthiest and the mightiest ca...

At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done then they begin to hope it c...

There are many degrees of sight and many degrees of blindness. What senses do we lack that we cannot...

Money said, "I warn you that ignorance thrives on hysteria.

I warn you that ignorance thrives on hysteria.

Does a population have informed consent when that population is not taught the inner workings of its...

There is more stupidity around than hydrogen and it has longer shelf life.

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

The Ladies of the Sacred Heart hung a thousand veils between their little charges and reality. Thérè...

All I know about humor is that I don't know anything about it.

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one clas...

However modest one may be in one's demand for intellectual cleanliness, one cannot help feeling, whe...

I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but wi...

Fear and realisation of ignorance, strong medicines against stupid pride.

Beware of false knowledge it is more dangerous than ignorance.

Nothing but the natural ignorance of the public, countenanced by the inoculated erroneousness of the...

You're just another american who is willfully ignorant of the big red, white and blue dick being sho...

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.

Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.

Ignorance is no reason with a fool for holding his tongue.

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

The dark-haired girl behind Winston had begun crying out: 'Swine! Swine! Swine!', and suddenly she p...

If he were allowed contact with foreigners he would discover that they are creatures similar to hims...

Even the humblest Party member is expected to be competent, industrious, and even intelligent within...

Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.

They [his readers, whom he asks to be his friends] will find that I have always loved truth so passi...

Our grief is not a cry for war."That's how New Yorkers feel," the driver said. "They know what bombi...

I have always regarded as a stroke of good fortune that I was not born or brought up in a small Amer...

Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either extreme egotism, selfishness, evil -- or ...

Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.

I can't admit of an old boy of a God who takes walks in his garden with a cane in his hand, who lodg...

He himself was one of your noisy roisterers, for whom life holds no greater pleasures than wine and ...

I think that it [the Church] stands for everything most hostile to the mental emancipation and stimu...

As night goes round the Earth always there are hundreds of thousands of people who should be sleepin...

I tell you, stupidity, self-protective stupidity, is the fundamental sin. No man alive has a right t...

When we've got a common philosophy and a common objective; then we can advance in open order. We sha...

It was his first definite encounter with the wary-eyed, platitudinous, evasive Labour leaders, and h...

He came away with an exasperated sense of failure. He denounced parliamentary government root and br...

But the old traditions of sectarian misdirection still in spite of a certain advance in technical ef...

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. No one in this worl...

I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind — that its modest and great...

Strange are the pictures of the future that mankind can thus draw with this brush of faith and these...

We all wish to live. We all seek a world in which men are freed of the burdens of ignorance, poverty...

There were times he thought it would have been far better to never have known. Yet he continued to r...

He decided not to ask for details. Better to avoid exposing his ignorance even further.

Whenever an occasion arose in which she needed an opinion on something in the wider world, she borro...

If I'm a bad person, you don't like meWell I guess I'll make my own wayIt's a circleA mean cycleI ca...

Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.

Which is the best man to deal with,-he who knows nothing about a subject, and, what is extremely rar...

What is most of our boasted so-called knowledge but a conceit that we know something, which robs us ...

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.

Weakness is what brings ignorance, cheapness, racism, homophobia, desperation, cruelty, brutality, a...

A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.

Ignorance is the parent of fear ...

Ignorance is the parent of fear.

The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance.

...But that is a method for cowards; the brave man goes out into the hall, comes back with a stick, ...

Extremism thrives amid ignorance and anger, intimidation and cowardice.

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the later ignorance.

People think that epilepsy is divine simply because they don't have any idea what causes epilepsy. B...

Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance...

Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities o...

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-int...

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know—and yet not wise enough to control our learning an...

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning ...

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-int...

Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden o...

The young specialist in English Lit, having quoted me, went on to lecture me severely on the fact th...

Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patie...

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

Acquaint yourself with your own ignorance.

Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not ...

I expect what you're not aware of would fill several books, Dursely.

Do you mean ter tell me," he growled at the Dursleys, "that this boy—this boy!—knows nothin' abou'—a...

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...