Top 100 Quotes About Ignorance
#1. Knowledge is a path to success; ignorance is a highway to failure.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#2. We must be physicists in order to be creative since so far codes of values and ideals have been constructed in ignorance of physics or even in contradiction to physics.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#3. It is our ignorance of things that causes all our admiration and chiefly excites our passions.
Edmund Burke
#4. Ignorance and bigotry, like other insanities, are incapable of self-government.
Thomas Jefferson
#5. Ours is the first era in which it has been possible for people of different
nations to conduct their affairs in a friendly and understanding manner. In the old days, peoples spent their lives fearing and even hating one another because of ignorance on all sides.
Albert Einstein
#6. There is no limit to the amount of intelligence invested in ignorance when the need for illusion runs deep.
Saul Bellow
#7. I refuse to live in ignorance and helplessness.
Amber Argyle
#8. 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
#10. The true conquests, the only ones that cause no regret, are those made over ignorance.'68
Andrew Roberts
#11. One day, the child will understand what he feared most and he will laugh at his ignorance!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#12. Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.
George Eliot
#13. I have decided to take on the biggest in my opinion challenge facing Christianity today. Which unfortunately is largely seen in the African continent and other developing countries. This challenge is ignorance!
Sunday Adelaja
#14. Questions signified a vulgar display of ignorance.
Arundhati Roy
#16. One of the surprising discoveries of modern psychology is how easy it is to be ignorant of your own ignorance.
Daniel C. Dennett
#17. Unfortunately the leading proponent of ignorance in our society has become the very same institution that was created to fight it - The Church.
Sunday Adelaja
#18. The nice thing about having a brain is that one can learn, that ignorance can be supplanted by knowledge, and that small bits of knowledge can gradually pile up into substantial heaps.
Douglas Hofstadter
#19. The knowledge of one generation is the ignorance of the next.
Frances Wright
#20. Polysyllables obfuscate a preponderant ignorance with so much more style and panache.
John Patrick Lowrie
#21. In the end, there's no sort of difference between dying from ignorance and dying under the feet of thousands of men who have regained their freedom. You close your eyes, and then there's nothing anymore. And death is never difficult. It requires neither a hero nor a slave. It eats what it's served.
Philippe Claudel
#22. The main cause of poverty or financial struggle is fear and ignorance, not the economy or the government or the rich.
Robert Kiyosaki
#23. A true teacher does not terrorize ignorant students, because a true teacher knows that it is his job to cure ignorance.
Miriam Defensor Santiago
#24. Sadly, the doctrinal ignorance in the pulpits of today is being replicated in the doctrinal ignorance and indifference of the pews, and the people are not even seeing the picture, much less getting it.
Albert Mohler
#25. Madman, thou errest. I say, there is no darkness but ignorance, in which thou art more puzzled than the Egyptians in their fog.
William Shakespeare
#26. All of us make mistakes because of youth or ignorance or both. We can't do much about youth, but we can do something about ignorance.
Howard Buffett
#27. Taste is a matter of ignorance. If you know what you are tasting, you don't have to taste.
Frank Lloyd Wright
#28. Ignorance is not the inability to see, but the act of ignoring what is really going on in favour of what we imagine.
Steve Hagen
#29. In the ignorance that implies the impression that knits knowledge that finds the nameform that whets the wits that convey contacts that sweeten sensation that drives desire that adheres to attachment that dogs death that bitches birth that entails the ensuance of existentiality.
James Joyce
#30. Open the gates of wisdom, tear the veil of ignorance, enter the abode of Divine Bliss. Rest in peace forever.
Sathya Sai Baba
#31. Political ignorance helps explain Americans' perpetual disappointment with politicians generally, and presidents especially, to whom voters unrealistically attribute abilities to control events.
George Will
#32. Ignorance is a wonderful thing - it's the state you have to be in before you can really learn anything.
Terry Pratchett
#33. The combination of fear and ignorance (two sides of the same coin) can be paralyzing.
Seth Godin
#34. Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.
Carl Sagan
#35. Without ignorance or disagreement all conversation would be boring.
Josh Steimle
#36. I had always detested the meddlesome alarmist, who veils ignorance under noisiness, and for ever wails his chant of lugubrious pessimism.
Erskine Childers
#37. The Gods made me special because They knew I could handle the ignorance.
D. Alexandria
#38. My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy.
Maya Angelou
#39. Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil.
Plato
#40. Every mob, in its ignorance and blindness and bewilderment, is a League of Frightened Men that seeks reassurance in collective action.
Max Lerner
#41. In the end, the innate desire of all people for truth, justice, and human understanding must triumph over ignorance and despair.
Dalai Lama XIV
#42. To conceal ignorance is to increase it. An honest confession of it, however, gives ground for the hope that it will diminish some day or the other.
Mahatma Gandhi
#43. Yes ... That's what it was to be alive. To move about in a cloud of ignorance; to go up and down trampling on the feelings of those ... about you. To spend and waste time as though you had a million years. To be always at the mercy of one self-centered passion or another.
Linda Dillow
#44. However, when the idea that objects inherently exist takes hold, fundamental ignorance has been introduced.
Dalai Lama XIV
#45. Our ignorance of God is too great, because our estimations of God are too little.
Stephen Charnock
#47. Let's not be too rough on our own ignorance, it's what makes America great.
Frank Zappa
#48. Efore I can ask you what's going on, you tell me there's something we need to talk about.
This is it, the moment before you tell me the precise thing I don't want to know.
Is this the zenith? This last moment of ignorance?
Or does it come much later?
David Levithan
#49. A political system seeking to function amongst ignorant, illiterate and barbaric people could have marvelous principles but could only succeed in being ignorant, illiterate and barbaric unless one addressed the people one by one and cured the ignorance, illiteracy and barbarism of each citizen.
L. Ron Hubbard
#51. We spend our lives telling ourselves the story of past and future, while the reality of the present goes largely unexplored. Now we live in ignorance of the freedom and simplicity of consciousness, prior to the arising of thought.
Sam Harris
#52. Ignorance is never out of style. It was in fashion yesterday, it is the rage today and it will set the pace tomorrow.
Frank Dane
#53. Learn to differentiate between ignorance and stupidity.
Oscar Wilde
#54. Yes, racism looks like hate, but hate is just one manifestation. Privilege is another. Access is another. Ignorance is another. Apathy is another, and so on.
Scott Woods
#55. Innocence walks hand-in-hand with ignorance. How insight never clarifies, only complicates.
Jo Nesbo
#56. Art hath an enemy called Ignorance.
Ben Jonson
#57. In our ignorance, there will always be a rebuke, a murmur, or an opinion that is not in line with God. Without knowing it, we begin to speak against the ways of God, the house of God, or the man or the woman of God.
John A. Tetsola
#58. On the way to truth, you can never see the priest, the imam or the pious! They are lost; they wander on the dark roads of ignorance!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#59. Into blinding darkness enter those who worship ignorance. Into as if still greater darkness enter those who delight in knowledge.
Vernon Katz
#61. Ignorance speaks loudly, so as to be heard; but its volume proves reason to doubt every word.
Wes Fesler
#62. Apply thy minde to be a vertuous man
Auoyd ill company (the spoyle of youth;)
To follow Vertues Lore doo what thou can,
(Whereby great profit vnto thee ensuth;)
Reade Bookes, hate Ignorance; (the Foe to Art,
The Damme of Errour, Enuy of the hart).
Richard Barnfield
#63. I AM IGNORANT of absolute truth. But I am humble before my ignorance and therein lies my honor and my reward.
Kahlil Gibran
#64. The reason why Christians do not make use of their entitlement in Christ Jesus is ignorance, or as the Bible puts it beautifully, 'lack of knowledge'!
Pedro Okoro
#65. Republicans stand for raw, unbridled evil and greed and ignorance smothered in balloons and ribbons.
Frank Zappa
#66. Timendi causa est nescire -
Ignorance is the cause of fear.
Seneca.
#67. Ignorance is servitude, because as a man thinks, so he is; a man who does not think for himself and allows himself to be guided by the thought of another is like the beast led by a halter.
Jose Rizal
#69. Ignorance and power and pride are a deadly mixture, you know.
Robert Fulghum
#70. Prejudice is a product of ignorance that hides behind barriers of tradition.
Jasper Fforde
#71. Knowing ignorance is strength; ignoring knowledge is sickness.
Laozi
#72. Don't be ashamed of your ignorance, be ashamed of your unwillingness to overcome it
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#74. Empathy nurtures wisdom. Apathy cultivates ignorance.
Suzy Kassem
#75. Do you think you can cure the hatreds and the maladjustments of the world by hanging them? You simply show your ignorance and your hate when you say it. You may here and there cure hatred with love and understanding, but you can only add fuel to the flames by cruelty and hate.
Clarence Darrow
#76. And sometimes ignorance is even harder to deal with than deliberate evil.
Ryu Murakami
#77. The risks of liberty we must let everyone take; but the risks of ignorance and self-helplessness are another matter.
George Bernard Shaw
#78. It's interesting to be an adult and to have that level of ignorance about something, because the nice part about is you get that discovery. The learning curve is so rich and steep.
Demetri Martin
#80. where my culture I'm told holds no significance
I'll wither and die in ignorance
But my inner eye can c a race
who reigned as kings in another place
Tupac Shakur
#81. Ignorance has its advantages. A universe of surprises is what I pray for!
Frank Herbert
#82. Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
Frederick Douglass
#84. Ignorance is toxic. If a man hands you a cup of coffee and pours in what he calls liquid sugar when the container clearly says poison, how bliss is your ignorance?
James Jean-Pierre
#85. We must first note that economic factors are taken into account in a world in which ignorance, prejudice, and mental confusion, encouraged rather than dispelled by the political organization, exert a strong influence on policy making.
Ronald Coase
#86. It is among uneducated women that we may look for the most confirmed gossips. Goethe tells us there is nothing more frightful than bustling ignorance.
Nicolas Chamfort
#87. The greatest enemy of mankind is his ignorance of the inherent money power in all of us. When the realization of this comes to man, he will like Samson, push down the walls of his prison.
E.C. Riegel
#88. When the basic problem is your ignorance, clever strategies for bypassing your ignorance lead to shooting yourself in the foot.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#89. More and more I'm more interested in the power of non-knowledge in our lives. We live so much in what we know, but really all our knowledge is at best a tiny island in a sea of ignorance.
Bigfoot
#90. What is a child? Ignorance. What is a child? Want of instruction.
Epictetus
#91. To ignore your own ignorance is to admit
that you were the biggest fool you never were.
P. Hermans
August 13, 2016
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Petra Hermans
#93. Without self-discovery," Hahn wrote, extending an idea of Nietzsche's, "a person may still have self-confidence, but it is a self-confidence built on ignorance and it melts in the face of heavy burdens.
Andrew Solomon
#94. There are genuine mysteries in the world that mark the limits of human knowing and thinking. Wisdom is fortified, not destroyed, by understanding its limitations. Ignorance does not make a fool as surely as self-deception.
Mortimer J. Adler
#95. 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
#96. a great publicity is a high way to remote customers and a universal key to the gate of ignorance
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#97. Knowledge is power," she finishes, and I open my eyes to find her rounding the chair, "but ignorance can be a blessing.
Victoria Schwab
#98. Knowledge is leagued with the universe, and findeth a friend in all things; but ignorance is everywhere a stranger, unwelcome; ill at ease and out of place.
Martin Farquhar Tupper
#100. The truth is perilous never to the true, Nor knowledge to the wise; and to the fool, And to the false, error and truth alike, Error is worse than ignorance.
Philip James Bailey
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