Top 100 And Ignorance Quotes
#1. A cure by regression is homeopathic, like healing the damage done by ministers and ignorance with stupidity and Jesuits.
Franz Grillparzer
#2. If anyone can show me, and prove to me, that I am wrong in thought or deed, I will gladly change. I think the truth , which never yet hurt anybody. It is only persistence and self-delusion and ignorance which does harm.
Marcus Aurelius
#3. Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance in another, can hardly have much truth left.
Jane Austen
#4. We live in a culture where everyone's opinion, view, and assessment of situations and people spill across social media, a lot of it anonymously, much of it shaped by mindless meanness and ignorance.
Mike Barnicle
#6. I refuse to believe in a god who is the primary cause of conflict in the world, preaches racism, sexism, homophobia, and ignorance, and then sends me to hell if I'm 'bad'.
Mark Fuhrman
#7. Half of disbelief in Allah in the world is caused by people who make religion look ugly due to their bad conduct and ignorance
Al-Ghazali
#8. The world is groaning and mourning in pain and ignorance, because the people do not know much about the principles of God
Sunday Adelaja
#9. These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television, but more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.
Alain Badiou
#10. I bear my burden proudly for all to see, to conquer prejudice and ignorance and hate with knowledge and sincerity and love. Whenever you are threatened by a hostile presence, you emit a thick cloud of love like an octopus squirts out ink ...
William S. Burroughs
#11. If the Church knew all the commandments, one half they would condemn through prejudice and ignorance.
Joseph Smith Jr.
#12. The point is that racism is the product of tribalism and ignorance and both are falling victim to communications and world-around literacy
R. Buckminster Fuller
#13. Attainment is a poor measure of capacity, and ignorance no proof of defect.
Cyril Burt
#14. An enlightened person doesn't know it all. Enlightenment simply means walking beyond this and all worlds into nirvana, which is beyond knowledge and ignorance.
Frederick Lenz
#15. Arrogance and ignorance go hand in hand.
Metallica
#16. Never forget that intelligence rules the world and ignorance carries the burden. Therefore, remove yourself as far as possible from ignorance and seek as far as possible to be intelligent.
Marcus Garvey
#17. War and hunger and ignorance and despair know no religious barriers.
John F. Kennedy
#18. Between knowledge of what really exists and ignorance of what does not exist lies the domain of opinion. It is more obscure than knowledge, but clearer than ignorance.
Plato
#19. The principal cause of suffering is craving. Once craving is eliminated, much suffering will be eliminated. Still more suffering will be eliminated once ignorance is eliminated. Both craving and ignorance are equally powerful defilements that cause suffering.
Henepola Gunaratana
#20. good is what we built when it leads to this? What good is knowledge when stupidity and ignorance will always trump it? Well,
David D. Hammons
#21. Uncertainty and fear and ignorance about immigrants, about people who are different, has a history as old as our Nation.
Luis Gutierrez
#22. C++ is a language strongly optimized for liars and people who go by guesswork and ignorance.
Erik Naggum
#23. Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.
Cyril Connolly
#24. My boy, you are by blood, by appearance, by education, and by tastes a white man. Now, why do you want to throw your life away amidst the poverty and ignorance, in the hopeless struggle, of the black people of the United States?
James Weldon Johnson
#25. Because of poverty and ignorance, not everyman living on earth lives in the same epoch!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#26. Men are mistaken in thinking themselves free; their opinion is made up of consciousness of their own actions, and ignorance of the causes by which they are determined.
Baruch Spinoza
#27. Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery
Miles Davis
#28. Libraries can be of indispensable service in lifting the dead weight of poverty and ignorance.
Francis Keppel
#29. Tis the most certain sign, the world's accurst That the best things corrupted, are the worst; 'Twas the corrupted Light of knowledge, hurl'd Sin, Death, and Ignorance o'er all the world; That Sun like this (from which our sight we have) Gaz'd on too long, resumes the light he gave.
John Denham
#30. People hate out of fear and ignorance. If they could just get to know the people they hate, and focus on their common interests, they could overcome that hatred.
Michelle Cohen Corasanti
#31. Nirvana means to extinguish the burning fires of the Three Poisons: greed, anger, and ignorance. This can be accomplished by letting go of dissatisfaction.
Shinjo Ito
#32. My path to wisdom began when I stopped pretending to know things I didn't know. When I explicitly admitted to the limits of my knowledge, stopped building on ambiguity and ignorance, and instead realized that I knew nothing, not even the things I thought I knew.
Tucker Max
#33. Fear and ignorance are the strongest weapons any ruler can wield.
Sara B. Larson
#34. Do people actually do that
go back and thank their teachers years later, when they're no longer handicapped by youth and ignorance, when they figure out just how much their teachers actually did for them?
Matthew Quick
#35. As priestcraft was always the enemy of knowledge, because priestcraft supports itself by keeping people in delusion and ignorance, it was consistent with its policy to make the acquisition of knowledge a real sin.
Thomas Paine
#36. Christianity was an epidemic rather than a religion. It appealed to fear, hysteria and ignorance. It spread across the Western world, not because it was true, but because humans are gullible and superstitious.
Colin Wilson
#37. Foolishness is more than being stupid, that deadly combination of arrogance and ignorance.
Paul David Tripp
#38. Why is it that the choice among churches always seems to be the choice between intelligence on ice and ignorance on fire?
Diana Butler Bass
#39. Specialization is undeniably a powerful social and economic force. And yet it is also debilitating. It breeds helplessness, dependence, and ignorance and, eventually, it undermines any sense of responsibility. Our
Michael Pollan
#40. They persistently refused to support either armed party and believed that both sides were but the reflection of one reality, and the true enemies were not people, but ideology, hatred, and ignorance.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#41. The real protagonist of scientifiction was science itself, conquering the dark forces of irrationality and ignorance.
Steve Silberman
#42. Children would die of terror if they knew the folly and ignorance of their caretakers.
Mason Cooley
#43. The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future.
John Maynard Keynes
#44. My proof convinces the ignorant, and the wise man's proof convinces me. But he whose reasoning falls between wisdom and ignorance, I neither can convince him, nor can he convince me.
Khalil Gibran
#45. People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines ... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.
Bill Gates
#46. You've got another problem. Like most white trash, you're disrespectful to your betters and proud of your stupidity and ignorance.
James Lee Burke
#47. Science is a contemplative possession of reality through exclusion of all illusion, error and ignorance.
Georges Canguilhem
#48. How many times do you read about 'the Cinderella story,' the story of the underdog, the story of the ordinary human being, often subjected to cruelty and ignorance and neglect, who somehow triumphs?
Kenneth Branagh
#49. McDowell has pointed to three common reasons people reject Christianity: pride, moral problems with how Christ would impact their lifestyles, and ignorance.
Alex Mcfarland
#50. The question is really a kind of apathy and ignorance, which is the price we pay for segregation. That's what segregation means. You don't know what's happening on the other side of the wall, because you don't want to know.
Raoul Peck
#51. Confident and courageous leaders have no problems pointing out their own weaknesses and ignorance.
Thom S. Rainer
#52. Fanaticism and Ignorance is forever busy and needs feeding.
Jerome Lawrence
#53. We live in a world which is full of misery and ignorance, and the plain duty of each and all of us is to try to make the little corner he can influence somewhat less miserable and somewhat less ignorant than it was before he entered.
Thomas Henry Huxley
#54. We must eliminate the gulf of mistrust and ignorance that keeps us from learning from each other.
Coretta Scott King
#55. Live fully present in this world with your heart attuned to God's heart, and you will be torn by the sight of so much suffering and ignorance.
Maria Grace Dateno
#56. There is a very pervasive web of falsehoods that the dreamer must wake from in order to start on her path. These are the lies of the mad world, the system of delusion maintained by human drama and ignorance.
Carolyn Elliott
#57. In North America, the greatest threat to the Jewish people is not the external force of antisemitism, but the internal forces of apathy, inertia and ignorance of our own heritage.
Michael Steinhardt
#58. Doubt is the middle position between knowledge and ignorance. It encompasses cynicism but also genuine questioning.
Vera Farmiga
#59. There is a chasm between knowledge and ignorance which the arches of science can never span.
Henry David Thoreau
#60. When I turn my eye inward, I find nothing but doubt and ignorance. All the world conspires to oppose and contradict me; though such is my weakness, that I feel all my opinions loosen and fall of themselves, when unsupported by the approbation of others.
David Hume
#61. If I had a child who wanted to be a teacher, I would bid him Godspeed as if he were going to war. For indeed the war against prejudice, greed, and ignorance is eternal, and those who dedicate themselves to it give their lives no less because they may live to see some fraction of the battle won.
James Hilton
#62. Travelers perceptions do not always reflect the reality of a situation, and ignorance is costing the industry billions.
Paul Dowling
#63. There is one potential problem with automation: that it will be accompanied by complacency and ignorance.
Richard De Crespigny
#64. Many books have been written to show that Christianity has emasculated the world, that it shoved aside the enlightenment and wisdom of Hellas for a doctrine of superstition and ignorance.
Edgar Lee Masters
#65. Quick to judge, quick to anger, slow to understand ... prejudice, fear and ignorance walk hand-in-hand.
Neil Peart
#66. Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human.
Desiderius Erasmus
#67. Which one is the right way?"
"Huh? You're asking me that? How should I know?"
"Mortals call you Buddha."
"That is only because they are afflicted with language and ignorance.
Roger Zelazny
#68. You make name for yourself when you overcome pain, weakness, laziness and ignorance
Sunday Adelaja
#69. In these meetings of all sorts, every counsel, in proportion as it is daring and violent and perfidious, is taken for the mark of superior genius. Humanity and compassion are ridiculed as the fruits of superstition and ignorance. Tenderness to individuals is considered as treason to the public.
Edmund Burke
#70. So long as the millions live in hunger and ignorance, I hold every person a traitor who, having been educated at their expense, pays not the least heed to them!
Swami Vivekananda
#71. That is like throwing two virgins into a bed. Enthusiasm, passion, and ignorance are not a good combination. Someone is likely to get hurt.
Patrick Rothfuss
#72. Republicans stand for raw, unbridled evil and greed and ignorance smothered in balloons and ribbons.
Frank Zappa
#75. If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed. It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed.
Marcus Aurelius
#76. The combination of fear and ignorance (two sides of the same coin) can be paralyzing.
Seth Godin
#77. The main cause of poverty or financial struggle is fear and ignorance, not the economy or the government or the rich.
Robert Kiyosaki
#78. Love transcends international boundaries. It heals the wounds of racial hatred, prejudice, bigotry and ignorance.
Michael Jackson
#79. This must be a world of democracy and respect for human rights, a world freed from the horrors of poverty, hunger, deprivation and ignorance, relieved of the threat and the scourge of civil wars and external aggression and unburdened of the great tragedy of millions forced to become refugees.
Nelson Mandela
#80. Can you define "plan" as "a loose sequence of manifestly inadequate observations and conjectures, held together by panic, indecision, and ignorance"? If so, it was a very good plan.
Jonathan Stroud
#81. Tis certain that Morality is an indispensable Requisite of true Religion, and there can be none without it. But it would become the Pride and Ignorance of Pagans only, to magnify it, as the Whole of what is necessary.
Samuel Richardson
#82. Atheism, which people have tried to for hundreds of years as 'the ways of reason and science,' is proving to be mere irrationality and ignorance.
Harun Yahya
#83. The greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance that has ever been.
Fidel Castro
#84. I got to the top the hard way - fighting my own laziness and ignorance every step of the way.
John C. Maxwell
#85. Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.
Thomas Paine
#86. Never let your persistence and passion turn into stubbornness and ignorance.
Anthony J. D'Angelo
#87. In the vacuum created by fear and ignorance and hunger and want, it's evil, not good, that rushes to fill the void.
Glenn Beck
#88. All men's instincts, all their impulses in life, are efforts to increase their freedom. Wealth and poverty, health and disease, culture and ignorance, labor and leisure, repletion and hunger, virtue and vice, are all terms for greater or less degree of freedom.
Leo Tolstoy
#89. Religions have depended on the relative isolation and ignorance of their flocks, forever and this is all breaking down.
Daniel Dennett
#90. People like us were born to change the world. It's filled with shit. It's filled with people who did the things they did to you. It's filled with stupid pointlessness and ignorance and so much mundanity, it makes me want to scream. Don't you feel it too?
Laure Eve
#91. The world as it is is the world as God sees it, not as we see it. Our vision is distorted, not so much by the limits of finitude as by sin and ignorance. But the more we raise ourselves in the scale of being, the more will our ideas about God and the world correspond to reality.
William R. Inge
#92. Perhaps the best known, and certainly the most vaunted, "discovery" of modern public opinion research is the indifference and ignorance of a majority of the electorate in western democracies.
Moses Finley
#93. No one was ever injured by the truth; but he who persists in self-deception and ignorance is injured.
Marcus Aurelius
#94. What you read in the newspapers, hear on the radio and see on television, is hardly even the truth as seen by experts; it is the wishful thinking of journalists, seen through filters of prejudice and ignorance.
Hans Jurgen Eysenck
#95. Wit, like hunger, will be with great difficulty restrained from falling on vice and ignorance, where there is great plenty and variety of food.
Henry Fielding
#96. If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon's but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition and ignorance on the other.
Ulysses S. Grant
#97. Fear and Bigotry are bred fom isolation and ignorance.
-Shekinah
P.C. Cast
#98. People are subject to moods, to temptations and fears, lethargy and aberration and ignorance, and the staunchest qualities shift under the stresses and strains of daily life.
Ilka Chase
#99. God has bestowed two gifts on man: hope and ignorance. Ignorance is the better of the two.
Victor Hugo
#100. To me the thought of oneself as low and humble is a sin and ignorance.
Swami Vivekananda
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