Ignorance Quotes

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.

And then this whole deal of new gods, old gods," said his friend. "You ask me, I welcome new gods. B...

What a refreshing mind you have, young man. There really is nothing quite like total ignorance, is t...

And, too ignorant to be scared, too young to be awed, Tristan Thorn traveled beyond the fields we kn...

Some people have great ideas maybe once or twice in their life, and then they discover electricity o...

In America, everyone is entitled to an opinion, and it is certainly useful to have a few when a poll...

Ignorance is a virus. Once it starts spreading, it can only be cured by reason. For the sake of huma...

There’s a fascinating frailty of the human mind that psychologists know all about, called “argument ...

But you can’t be a scientist if you’re uncomfortable with ignorance, because scientists live at the ...

... there is no shame in not knowing. The problem arises when irrational thought and attendant behav...

Men are always averse to enterprises in which they foresee difficulties.

I'm told by my young friends that experience is much more important than books. Of course Ben Frankl...

Today the most civilized countries of the world spend a maximum of their income on war and a minimum...

A very, in a sense, terrifying aspect of our society, and other societies, is the equanimity and the...

Our ignorance can be divided into problems and mysteries. When we face a problem, we may not know it...

One of the difficulties in raising public concern over the very severe threats of global warming is ...

Education is a system of imposed ignorance.

At its root, the logic is that of the Grand Inquisitor, who bitterly assailed Christ for offering pe...

Science is the topography of ignorance.

Poke had never shared out so many raisins, because she had never had so many to share. But the littl...

I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exoti...

It takes a very long time to become young.

I guess ignorance is bliss - when I do interviews people always say, "Aren't you upset that people m...

So when you spot violence, or bigotry, or intolerance or fear or just garden-variety misogyny, hatre...

It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object beware of thi...

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

When we set out on the path, we always have a fairly clear idea of what we hope to find. Women are g...

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

Fate is unalterable only in the sense that given a cause, a certain result must follow, but no cause...

Fatally, the term 'barbarian' is the password that opens up the archives of the twentieth century. I...

And the priests looked down into the pit of injustice and they turned their faces away and said, 'Ou...

Invincible ignorance always upset him, even though he knew he should just laugh at it.

Strange to know nothing, never to be sureOf what is true or right or real,But forced to qualify or s...

Simple was never that simple. Still, the self-questioning did take some time to reach him. And if th...

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though limits to our abilities do not exist.

[Science] dissipates errors born of ignorance about our true relations with nature, errors the more ...

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; t...

And whenever any one informs us that he has found a man who knows all the arts, and all things else ...

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance

Willingly or not we come to terms with power, forgetting that we are all in the ghetto, that the ghe...

There was nothing the ignorant prized more than the ignorance of others.

There’s faith that knows itself as faith, Proyas, and there’s faith that confuses itself for knowled...

I remeber asking a wise man, once . . . 'Why do Men fear the dark?' . . . 'Because darkness' he told...

If, having endured much, we have at last asserted out "right to know," and if by knowing, we have co...

I am very poor - for a know nothing, understand nothing. It is not a calamitous condition until it i...

Nothing in this world can one imagine beforehand not the least thing. Everything is made up of so m...

Fear always springsfrom ignorance.

If I cannot brag of knowing something then I brag of not knowing it at any rate brag.

I was hugely impressed... was the ultimate example of a man who knew what he didn't know, was perfec...

It doesn't think anything we don't want it to think.''That's sad,' said Montag, quietly, 'because al...

Cram them full of noncombustible data, chock them so full of 'facts' they feel stuffed, but absolute...

My feet," said Montag. "I can't move them. I feel so damn silly. My feet won't

You're afraid of making mistakes. Don't be. Mistakes can be profited by. Man, when I was young I sho...

Last night I thought about all that kerosene I've used in the past ten years. And I thought about bo...

How in hell did those bombers get up there every single second of our lives! Why doesn't someone wan...

Rationality belongs to the cool observer, but because of the stupidity of the average man, he follow...

And, in fine, of false sciences I thought I knew the worth sufficiently to escape being deceived by ...

I am one of those scientists who feels that it is no longer enough just to get on and do science. We...

I do sometimes accuse people of ignorance, but that is not intended to be an insult. I'm ignorant of...

Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence.

It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is soc...

It has become almost a cliché to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is soc...

More generally, as I shall repeat in Chapter 8, one of the truly bad effects of religion is that it ...

Chance" is just a word expressing ignorance

How quickly one accepts the incredible if only one sees it enough!

They argued about the weather, sports, sex, war, race, politics, and religion; neither of them knew ...

Fullness of knowledge always means some understanding of the depths of our ignorance and that is alw...