Top 100 Ignorance Is Quotes
#1. Some people will tell you that honesty is the best policy, but I disagree. In instances like this, I fully believe that feigned ignorance is the best policy.
Leila Sales
#2. The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly.
Richard Bach
#3. But I wouldn't tell them a thing. The less they knew, the better. I was positive of that. Ignorance is bliss, and the opposite of ignorance is the opposite of bliss.
Katie Alender
#4. Ignorance is a virus. Once it starts spreading, it can only be cured by reason. For the sake of humanity, we must be that cure.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#6. When an individual, a sect, a clique or a nation hates and despises another individual, sect, clique or nation, he or they simply do not know the objects of their hatred. Ignorance is at the bottom of it.
Paul Harris
#7. Ignorance is a progressive thinker's enemy; acceptance, awareness, accountability and action are the tools of the informed; of people who want change and do all they can to achieve it.
Carlos Wallace
#10. Ignorance is death, knowledge is life. Life is of very little value, if it is a life in the dark, groping through ignorance and misery.
Swami Vivekananda
#11. The human spirit, padded in ignorance, is a wondrous thing. They move within their own orbits- each of the seemingly lost, or intentionally lost in his or her own endeavors- while shifting into and out of one another's lives.
Lorna Jane Cook
#14. A good thing in one's ignorance is that one doesn't know that s/he
doesn't know.
Eraldo Banovac
#15. But there comes a moment in history when ignorance is no longer a forgivable offense ... a
Dan Brown
#16. Ignorance is like a disease. If you don't fight it, it will spread until we all succumb to it.
Sara Furlong Burr
#17. I remember telling a neurosurgeon, "Don't give me too much information, because at the moment my ignorance is my best asset."
Christopher Reeve
#18. Because even one voice in a wilderness of ignorance is a voice that is heard by someone. Because every woman and man, no matter their color or their religion, is entitled to a good defense.
Kristen Ashley
#19. Humble, honest, ignorance is one of the finest flowers of the human spirit
Kenneth E. Boulding
#20. I've always been an advocate of knowledge is power, but at the moment I'm favouring ignorance is bliss
Jodi Ellen Malpas
#21. Befriend knowledge;
ignorance is your enemy.
Wisdom is strength;
ignorance is weakness.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#22. Ignorance is not bad faith. But persistence in ignorance is.
Joanna Russ
#23. Ignorance is the beginning of knowledge; knowledge is the beginning of wisdom; wisdom is the awareness of ignorance.
William Rotsler
#25. Ignorance is God's prison. Knowing is God's palace
Rumi
#26. The ultimate ignorance is the rejection of something you know nothing about, yet refuse to investigate.
Wayne Dyer
#28. Justice is the only worship.
Love is the only priest.
Ignorance is the only slavery.
Happiness is the only good.
The time to be happy is now,
The place to be happy is here,
The way to be happy is to make others so.
Wisdom is the science of happiness.
Robert G. Ingersoll
#29. WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH. The
George Orwell
#30. Ignorance is the primary source of all misery and vice.
Victor Cousin
#31. In the argument over whether knowledge is power or ignorance is bliss, it seems I've always come down on the side of ignorance. And when that's the side you fall on, you don't realize it until it's too late.
Abby Fabiaschi
#32. The reason there's so much ignorance is that those who have it are so eager to share it.
Frank A. Clark
#33. Happiness is bliss - but ignorance is anesthetic, and in the face of what's to come, that may be all we can hope for our ill-fated acquaintances.
William Ritter
#34. Our single greatest defense against scientific ignorance is education, and early in the life of every scientist, the child's first interest was sparked by a teacher.
Peter Agre
#35. But here's the thing about seeing and knowing everything - sometimes ignorance is safer.
Sara Shepard
#36. I pulled him close. "You can try your best. The only problem is after this is all over with reality is going to be waiting for me."
He took my shirt off and tossed it over his shoulder pulling me down on the couch. He kissed me again, biting at my lip. "Ignorance is bliss.
Holly Hood
#37. The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
Elbert Hubbard
#38. Recognizing your own ignorance is the first step toward wisdom.
Laurence Overmire
#40. Ignorance is the root of many ills. Knowledge must be the fundamental ally of nations that aspire, despite all their tragedies and problems, to become truly emancipated, to build a better world.
Fidel Castro
#41. A seeming ignorance is very often a most necessary part of worldly knowledge. It is, for instance, commonly advisable to seem ignorant of what people offer to tell you; and, when they say, Have you not heard of such a thing? to answer, No, and to let them go on, though you know it already.
Lord Chesterfield
#43. One of the most powerful aspects of delusion, or ignorance, is the belief that what we do does not really matter.
Sharon Salzberg
#44. Ignorance is bliss, right? Well, knowledge is misery. And the truth hurts.
Mia Asher
#45. Ignorance is no cure for suffering.
Seneca.
#46. Situational unawareness in the private marketplace or on the battlefield will cost you your livelihood or your life. In the Age of Obama, however, such willful ignorance is a job prerequisite. The less you know the better.
Michelle Malkin
#47. Now, ignorance is one thing, ignorance can be cured. But many of the Republican leaders opposing this research know better.
Ron Reagan
#48. There is no mountain anywhere everyman ignorance is his own mountain
David Oyedepo
#49. Isn't it funny how ignorance is the source of strength of so many?
Lionel Suggs
#50. IGNORANCE is without gaining Knowledge & Knowledge is gained without IGNORANCE
Charleston Parker
#51. 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
#54. Ignorance is ultimately the worst enemy of a people who want to be free.
Jonathan Hennessey
#55. The plague of man is the opinion of knowledge. That is why ignorance is so recommended by our religion as a quality suitable to belief and obedience.
Michel De Montaigne
#56. Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery
Miles Davis
#57. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian--ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection that unattainable by the highest art.
Lytton Strachey
#59. Walking in ignorance is a choice for those who find reality too hard to face.
T.F. Hodge
#60. Looking mortality straight in the eyeis n easy feat. To avoid the exercise, we choose to stay blindfolded, in the dark as to the realities of death and dying. But ignorance is not bliss, only a deeper kind of terror.
Caitlin Doughty
#61. Ignorance is the enemy, curiosity the weapon of choice
Peter D. Ward
#63. Ignorance is no reason with a fool for holding his tongue.
George MacDonald
#64. Education is a tender garden, whereas ignorance is weeds. History - the old history - was full of examples proving that, when civilizations fell, learning was the first thing to disappear.
Anonymous
#65. Knowledge comes from learning - Ignorance is born from not wanting to know the difference!
Robbie Thomas
#68. I believe that ignorance is the root of all evil.
And that no one knows the truth.
Molly Ivins
#69. The way I figure, no man has the right to be ignorant. In a country like this, ignorance is a crime. If a man is going to vote, if he's going to take part in his country and its government, then it's up to him to understand.
Louis L'Amour
#71. Education levels are highly and negatively correlated to religious belief. In other words, ignorance is bliss.
Cesar Nascimento
#72. Ignorance is an illusion; we seek understanding. Compassion paves the way towards understanding and understanding paves the way towards acceptance.
Alaric Hutchinson
#73. To remove ignorance is an important branch of benevolence.
Ann Plato
#74. Nonetheless, they remind us that ignorance is the natural state of mind for a research scientist.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#75. The truth is, going against the internal stream of ignorance is way more rebellious than trying to start some sort of cultural revolution.
Noah Levine
#76. Shutting out your problems does not dismiss them. Ignorance is not bliss. On the contrary, it creates an opportunity for those problems to grow.
Carlos Wallace
#78. The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is the pretense of intelligent ignorance. The former is teachable; the latter is not.
Criss Jami
#79. Ignorance is never ignored.
Sipendr
#80. Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug; but when it prescribes pills it may happen to do more harm.
George Eliot
#81. But Harley has always been this way, for as long as I've known him: he thinks ignorance is the best way to protect someone, and he doesn't understand that what we imagine is often worse than the truth.
Beth Revis
#82. 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
#83. The spirit is smothered, as it were, by ignorance, but so soon as ignorance is destroyed, spirit shine forth, like the sun when released from clouds.
Thomas Sankara
#84. Young gentlemen whose whiskers have not yet developed are authoritatively deciding that nothing can be decided, and dogmatically denouncing all dogmas. We meet them every day, and we notice that in proportion to their ignorance is their confidence in sneering at every holy thing.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#85. 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
#86. Thoroughly conscious ignorance is the prelude to every real advance in science.
James Clerk Maxwell
#88. True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.
Karl Popper
#89. Much of our ignorance is of ourselves. Our eyes are full of dust. Prejudice blinds us.
Abraham Coles
#90. Ignorance is hardly unusual, Miss Davar. The longer I live, the more I come to realize that it is the natural state of the human mind. There are many who will strive to defend its sanctity and then expect you to be impressed with their efforts.
Brandon Sanderson
#91. Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.
Dalai Lama
#92. Ignorance is not bliss. That platitude is totally wrong. You will not be intellectually happier if you know fewer things. Learning should be a primary goal of living. But what if ignorance feels better - not psychologically, but physically? That would explain a lot of human incongruities.
Chuck Klosterman
#93. The disclosure of a new fact, the leap forward, the conquest over yesterday's ignorance, is an act not of reason but of imagination, of intuition.
Charles Nicolle
#94. I think that the root of Willful Ignorance, is Fear. We'll return to that in a minute. But the root of Fear, is Simple Ignorance, at least I think that our original Fear is rooted in simply not understanding the World around us: not knowing.
Steve Bivans
#95. Ignorance is pitiful! If you are ignorant and stupid, you are sick - white, black, green, I don't care.
Willie Wells
#96. If the history of science teaches us anything, it is that what conquers our ignorance is research, not giving up and attributing our ignorance to the miraculous work of a creator.
Jerry A. Coyne
#97. Ignorance is brought about by assumption.
T.D. Jakes
