Top 82 Ignorance Evil Quotes
#1. It is ignorance or at least lack of consideration of heavenly things that make the temporal things of this world, whether good or evil, greater than they really are.
Tom Patton
#2. We're all caught up in circumstances, and we're all good and evil. When you're really hungry, for instance, you'll do anything to survive. I think the most evil thing - well, maybe that's too strong - but certainly a very evil thing is judgment, the sin of ignorance.
Anthony Hopkins
#3. There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.
Socrates
#4. Now all men suffer from ignorance of the truth; deceived by common report, they make for these ends as if they were good, and then, after having won their wish, and suffered much, they find them evil, or empty, or less important than they had expected.
Seneca.
#5. Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either extreme egotism, selfishness, evil
or else an absolute ignorance.
Graham Greene
#6. The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
Socrates
#7. Truly, if ignorance is the foundation of any man's goodness, it is not worth the wind that upsets it, but in its mere self, ignorance of evil is a negative good.
George MacDonald
#8. There are indeed, in the present corruption of mankind, many incitements to forsake truth: the need of palliating our own faults and the convenience of imposing on the ignorance or credulity of others so frequently occur; so many immediate evils are
Samuel Johnson
#9. The parents sat round watching, and in their crass faces - faces not harsh or evil, only blunted by ignorance and mean virtues - you could see a solemn approval, a solemn pleasure in the spectacle of sin rebuked.
George Orwell
#10. Money is not the root of all evil ... ignorance is the root of all evil. People do cruel and foolish things for money because they feel oppressed by a sense of lack. If people knew their power to generate wealth, they would never fight or hurt each other over money.
Alan Cohen
#11. It is in his knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness, the high superiority which he holds over the other animals who inhabit the earth with him, and consequently no ignorance is probably without loss to him, no error without evil.
James Smithson
#13. The world has made everything else and still it can't make peace. And the reason it can't make peace is because of the evil, ignorance and stupidity. I have songs that explain these facts. And that's the blues.
Willie Dixon
#14. Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.
Frederick Douglass
#15. The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.
Gerard De Nerval
#16. I believe that ignorance is the root of all evil.
And that no one knows the truth.
Molly Ivins
#17. Writings can be stolen, or changed, or used for evil purposes. But isn't the risk worth taking? The more people who share knowledge, the greater safeguard for it. Isn't there more danger in ignorance than knowledge?
Lloyd Alexander
#18. I believe that Plato was correct in saying that our souls long for the Good, and that nobody chooses evil for themselves while recognizing that it is evil, though some may do it in ignorance.
Jo Walton
#19. Is there anything science should not try to explain? Science is knowledge and knowledge is power - power to do good or evil. Sometimes ignorance is bliss.
Paul Davies
#20. She loved with so much passion as she loved with ignorance. She did not know whether it were good or evil, beneficent or dangerous, necessary or accidental, eternal or transitory, permitted or prohibited: she loved.
Victor Hugo
#21. Evil is relatively rare; ignorance is epidemic.
Jon Stewart
#22. Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil.
Plato
#23. Ignorance ... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.
George Eliot
#24. Man is not satisfied with just being man. He wants to be everything, all creatures, and still remain himself. Man has unfathomable depths to his goodness and his evil, his intelligence and his ignorance
he is a dark region of wells and wishes to drink at them all.'
O-kolkol
Garry Douglas Kilworth
#25. It is only in folk tales, children's stories, and the journals of intellectual opinion that power is used wisely and well to destroy evil. The real world teaches very different lessons, and it takes willful and dedicated ignorance to fail to perceive them.
Noam Chomsky
#26. The greatest evil in our country today is...ignorance...We need to be taught to study rather than to believe.
Septima Poinsette Clark
#27. Maybe that was the price of ignorance, I thought, looking at the naked vagrant. Maybe Japan had to pay for the ignorant things it did in Nanking. Because ignorance as I'd got tired of hearing, is no excuse for evil.
Mo Hayder
#28. Often, the greater our ignorance about something, the greater our resistance to change.
Marc Bekoff
#29. Republicans stand for raw, unbridled evil and greed and ignorance smothered in balloons and ribbons.
Frank Zappa
#30. And sometimes ignorance is even harder to deal with than deliberate evil.
Ryu Murakami
#31. Help publicly. Help privately. Help make sense where sense has gone missing. Help science to solve and faith to soothe. Help, and you will abolish apathy-the void that is so quickly filled by ignorance and evil.
Tom Hanks
#32. Many people would say that money is the root of all evil, which is not entirely true. The root of all evil is ignorance, and the economic state of our society is a result of ignorance.
Joseph P. Kauffman
#33. Think what evil creeps liberals would be if their plans to enfeeble the individual, exhaust the economy, impede the rule of law, and cripple national defense were guided by a coherent ideology instead of smug ignorance.
P. J. O'Rourke
#34. I'm not a political Christian; for the most part I allow people even their vain, earthly rights. And I certainly don't see anti-Christians as bad or evil (as if they actually have the power to pose any kind of threat against God Almighty), but rather complete idiots I was commanded to love.
Criss Jami
#35. I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man's life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder of truth.
Ben Jonson
#36. Ignorance, when voluntary, is criminal, and a man may be properly charged with that evil which he neglected or refused to learn how to prevent.
Samuel Johnson
#37. Herein is the evil of ignorance, that he who is neither good nor wise is nevertheless satisfied with himself: he had no desire for that of which he feels no want.
Plato
#38. 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
#39. If they exert it not for good, they will for evil; if they advance not knowledge, they will perpetuate ignorance.
Frances Wright
#40. Because there is no greater evil than ignorance and the destruction of genius. Ignorance has been responsible for more death, more bigotry, and more sin than any other force. It is the destroyer of mankind.
Richelle Mead
#41. Rule over your mind or ignorance will rule over it.
Rule over your heart or fear will rule over it.
Rule over your soul or evil will rule over it.
Rule over your life or others will rule over it.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#42. Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.
Plato
#43. Misery and ignorance are always the cause of great evils. Misery is easily excited to anger, and ignorance soon yields to perfidious counsels.
Joseph Addison
#44. The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.
Albert Camus
#46. It is a mistake always to contemplate the good and ignore the evil, because by making people neglectful it lets in disaster.
There is a dangerous optimism of ignorance and indifference.
Helen Keller
#47. The curse of ignorance is that man without being good or evil is nevertheless satisfied with himself
Sophocles
#48. Ignorance is the evil - knowledge will be the remedy. Knowledge not of what sort of beings we shall be hereafter, or what is beyond the skies, but a knowledge pertaining to terra firma, and we may have all the power, goodness and love that we have been taught belongs to God himself.
Ernestine Rose
#49. She sits before me, sullen but hopeful, characterless, about to dissolve into tears. I squeeze her hand back, moved, no, touched by her ignorance of evil. She has one more test to pass.
Do you own a briefcase? I ask her, swallowing.
Bret Easton Ellis
#50. The purely righteous do not complain of the dark, but increase the light; they do not complain of evil, but increase justice; they do not complain of heresy, but increase faith; they do not complain of ignorance, but increase wisdom.
Abraham Isaac Kook
#51. Can one be fully human without experiencing tragedy? The only tragedy there is in the world is ignorance; all evil comes from that.
Anthony De Mello
#53. Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.
Plato
#54. The ignorance of the world leaves one at the mercy of its malice.
William Hazlitt
#55. What we call evil, it seems to me, is simply ignorance bumping its head in the dark.
Henry Ford
#56. Marriage or non-marriage, good or evil, learning or ignorance, any of these is justified, if it leads to the goal.
Swami Vivekananda
#57. The major threats to our survival no longer stem from nature without but from our own human nature within. It is our carelessness, our hostilities, our selfishness and pride and willful ignorance that endanger the world.
M. Scott Peck
#58. Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.
Plato
#59. Ah, child and youth, if you knew the bliss which resides in the taste of knowledge, and the evil and ugliness that lies in ignorance, how well you are advised to not complain of the pain and labor of learning.
Christine De Pizan
#60. The greatest slave is not he who is ruled by a despot, great though that evil be, but he who is in the thrall of his own moral ignorance, selfishness, and vice.
Samuel Smiles
#61. Ignorance: the root of all evil.
Plato
#62. Plato was right when he said that all evil comes from ignorance. He forgot that ignorance also comes from evil.
Peter Kreeft
#63. Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal; and he may be properly charged with evil who refused to learn how he might prevent it.
Samuel Johnson
#64. God's plan' is often a front for men's plans and a cover for inadequacy, ignorance, and evil.
Mary Daly
#65. Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens.
William Beveridge
#66. The truth that I know for sure is that I may have an opinion, but I do not know the truth, and the other thing I know for sure is that certainty is the root of all ignorance and the root of all evil.
Grant Bowler
#67. To be a Jew is to be strong with a strength that has outlived persecutions. It is to be wise against ignorance, honest against piracy, harmless against evil, kind against cruelty
Phyllis Bottome
#68. I think that a good person can sometimes do wrong out of ignorance or weakness or wrong thinking, but when hard times come, the goodness wins out after all. And a bad person can often seem good and trustworthy for a long time, but when hard times come, the evil in him gets revealed.
Orson Scott Card
#69. There is but one evil, ignorance.
Socrates
#70. Throw massive amounts of deception and the father of lies (yes, I'm referring to Satan) into the mix and you now have ignorance bordering on the fine lines of wickedness and evil. It's easy to be lured into something we hear about, but cannot actually see.
K.J. Masters
#71. There is an ignorance of evil that comes from being young: there is a darker ignorance that comes from doing it, as men by sleeping lose the knowledge of sleep.
C.S. Lewis
#72. Where there is oppression, there would be oppositions. Where there is "Knowledge" there would be progression. Where there is "HATE" evil will always prevail. Where there is forgiveness, there's a better Future. Where there is ignorance, there's a lack of Wisdom. Change is an ongoing process.
Henry Johnson Jr
#73. You can bet the rent money that whatever politicians do will end up harming consumers ... Economic ignorance is to politicians what idle hands are to the devil. Both provide the workshop for the creation of evil.
Walter E. Williams
#74. Prejudice is not a symptom of stupidity. Nor is it a symptom of evil. It is merely a symptom of ignorance.
The Prophet Of Life
#75. He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge; and one only evil, namely, ignorance.
Socrates
#76. I envy animals for two things - their ignorance of evil to come, and their ignorance of what is said about them.
Voltaire
#77. Ignorance is a tough evil to conquer.
Sophocles
#78. Races are very often invented from ignorance, or for very evil purposes.
Francis Lieber
#79. There is only one good, that is knowledge; there is only one evil, that is ignorance.
Aristotle.
#80. Like language, a code of manners can be used with more or less skill, for laudable or for evil purposes, to express a great variety of ideas and emotions. In itself, it carries no moral value, but ignorance in use of this tool is not a sign of virtue.
Judith Martin
#81. The evil that is in this world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding. On the whole, men are more good than bad; that however isn't the real point. But they are more or less ignorant, and it is this that we call vice or virtue;
Albert Camus
#82. Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.
Plato
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