Ignorance Quotes

A person must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.

The three most powerful and most apparent means used by Rome to retain her power over the minds of h...

How all my brain was in tumult, and all my heart in insurrection! Yet in what darkness, what dense i...

And just like that, as if I hadn't said anything at all, the ladies sprang into a conversation about...

Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.

I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but ignorance.

Ignorance was bliss.

I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend t...

Ignorance and fanaticism is ever busy and needs feeding. Always it is feeding and gloating for more.

he who will not economize will have to agonize

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Sup...

Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.

There comes a moment in history when ignorance is no longer a forgivable offense... a moment when on...

And where," Socrates smiled, "is the universe?""The universe is well, there are theories about how i...

A library is like an island in the middle of a vast sea of ignorance, particularly if the library is...

The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.

At work here is that powerful WYSIATI ("what you see is all there is") rule. You cannot help dealing...

Who were these people, all of them young couples, a few fabulous ones, tall thin-haired blondes with...

Thus identified with astronomy, in proclaiming truths supposed to be hostile to Scripture, Geology h...

The truth. Men will blind themselves with hot irons, rather than face it.

In practice, socialism didn't work. But socialism could never have worked because it is based on fal...

Absurdity is what I like most in life, and there's humor in struggling in ignorance. If you saw a ma...

I love going into another world, and I love mysteries. So I don't really like to know very much ahea...

... in a cycle as old as tribalism, ignorance of the Other engenders fear; fear engenders hatred; ha...

I'd tried to straighten him out, but there's only so much you can do for a person who thinks Auschwi...

It's immeasurably easier to live in a world that's all surfaces, that means nothing and demands noth...

I was the worst kind of fool. When I look back on that August night, changed forever by all my wound...

That I had come full circle shouldn't have surprised me, for we are born into time only to be born o...

Brendan knew about the truth. In most cases, it was just a matter of deciding whether you wanted to ...

Given the unprecedented ignorance of the Bible in contemporary America, it is likely that more young...

As she turned left to the gateway, it occurred to her that swimming was only one of a very large num...

I'll show you how," Peter said. "Stop hiding behind your ignorance.

Protect me from knowing what I don't need to know. Protect me from even knowing that there are thing...

all ignorance toboggans into know and trudges up to ignorance again.

Painting is easy when you don't know how but very difficult when you do.

It is our ignorance of things that causes all our admiration and chiefly excites our passions.

An ignorant man, who is not fool enough to meddle with his clock, is however sufficiently confident ...

Unprovided with original learning unformed in the habits of thinking unskilled in the arts of comp...

Shall any gazer see with mortal eyes,Or any searcher know by mortal mind,Veil after veil will lift--...

The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition a...

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowled...

To worship a sacred mystery was just to worship your own ignorance.

An ignorance of means may minister to greatness, but an ignorance of aims make it impossible to be g...

The most violent element in society is ignorance.

I have often been asked why I maintained such a non-compromising antagonism to government and in wha...

Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Whatever Nature has in store for mankind, unpleasant as it may be, men must accept, for ignorance is...

Confidence is ignorance. If you're feeling cocky, it's because there's something you don't know.

Ignorance, as they say, is usually fatal, but sometimes it can be bliss.

All things truly wicked start from innocence.

The fact that millions of people share the same vices does not make these vices virtues, the fact th...

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...