Top 100 Quotes About Your Ignorance
#1. Ignorance," he rejoined, sounding cross. "You modern people live in your own version of the Dark Ages, dismissing anything you can't understand. If the relic didn't stop him, what the hell did?
Sylvain Reynard
#2. you cloak your offence by ignorance, saying that you did not know my determination in this matter. it is a double offence to do ill and color it so.
Julia Fox
#3. It's only when you have grazed on the lower slopes of your own ignorance and begun to understand the great vistas of nonknowledge that you have, that you can claim to have been educated at all.
Christopher Hitchens
#4. To worship a sacred mystery was just to worship your own ignorance.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#5. Do not try to entrap others with your haughty knowledge. To your wide surprise, they will entrap you with their lengthy ignorance.
Sri Chinmoy
#6. Either way, it will cost you. You will for pay for your education or pay for your ignorance.
Kathy McClary
#7. Remain alert about your blindness, about your fear, about your ignorance, and just your alertness will dispel
the whole darkness of blindness, of fear, of ignorance.
Rajneesh
#8. Information can bring you choices and choices bring power - educate yourself about your options and choices. Never remain in the dark of ignorance.
Joy Page
#9. Acquaint yourself with your own ignorance.
Isaac Watts
#10. Forgive me. I continue to underestimate the breadth of your ignorance.
Ransom Riggs
#11. Never trust those who would be your shield. They feed on your ignorance and darkness. It is best to look at things directly and be unafraid.
James Rollins
#12. Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.
Saadi
#14. [How to train your dragon] is beautiful to look at and, again, those values that it contains about relationships, friendships, and bonding in the face of ignorance.
Gerard Butler
#15. I'm not going to censor myself to comfort your ignorance
Jon Stewart
#16. There are many backstabbing friends who in your hard time will ignore you, without to ask something from them. You just are filled with sadness and they don't confide in you anymore.
The downside of your hard time is being considered rude, negative, boorish and insistent.
Camelia C.
#17. Poor man! You have many burdens on you: The burdens of your religion, of your culture, of your ignorance, of your oppressive government! Find a wild horse and watch it! You will see what is to be unburdened and free!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#18. But then the general trouble with ignorance is always that the ignorant person has no idea that that's what they are. You can be ignorant and stupid and go through your whole life without ever encountering any evidence against the hypothesis that you're a genius.
Louis De Bernieres
#19. O ye people, earth-born folk, ye who have given yourselves to drunkenness and sleep and ignorance of God, be sober now,cease from your surfeit, cease to be glamored by irrational sleep!
Hermes Trismegistus
#20. Something draws you ... An impatience with your own ignorance.
Richard Ford
#21. It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
Jerome
#22. An idea is like a spark to creativity, which turns to a wild conflagration of thoughts, burning every ignorance. When the fire burns, the creative power is awake, and comes out to join the ideas in your head to bring out the hidden valuables the world never knew
Michael Bassey Johnson
#23. Freedom comes from seeing the ignorance of your critics and discovering the emptiness of their virtue.
Ayn Rand
#24. When we get our spiritual house in order, we'll be dead. This goes on. You arrive at enough certainty to be able to make your way, but it is making it in darkness. Don't expect faith to clear things up for you. It is trust, not certainty.
Flannery O'Connor
#25. You are my son, then, I'll tell you' and your mother was a wicked slut to leave you in ignorance of the sort of father you possessed.
Emily Bronte
#26. Where ignorance is bliss it's foolish to borrow your neighbor's newspaper.
Kin Hubbard
#27. Tool interrupted, 'do you mock me, or your own ignorance? Not even the lichen of the tundra is at peace. All is struggle, all is war for dominance. Those who lose, vanish.
Steven Erikson
#28. This is how you conquer your enemies:
through their ignorance of you,
and through your knowledge of them.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#29. We are too busy listening to our thoughts that we don't hear the wonderful sounds surrounding us ...
Alina Radoi
#30. It is a mere needless thing to fight with ignorance with all your true strength except you can educate and change ignorance with wit and wisdom
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#31. Ideas are only lethal if you suppress and don't discuss them. Ignorance is not bliss, it's stupid. Banning books shows you don't trust your kids to think and you don't trust yourself to be able to talk to them.
Anna Quindlen
#32. If you don't let a teacher know what level you are
by asking a question, or revealing your ignorance
you will not learn or grow
Stephen R. Covey
#33. If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could to-day.
Mark Twain
#34. Ignorance, fear, hate: these are our enemies. Deny them with all your might.
-Oromis
Christopher Paolini
#35. Whether you go your separate ways or stay together, you will continue to witness--against ignorance, against cruelty, and on behalf of all that is beautiful about this strange and crooked world.
Adam Gidwitz
#36. Don't feel better than anybody, because you feel like something. Always have it at the back of your mind that you were nothing before you became something, and that thing you supposed to be is absolutely nothing.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#37. Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'
Isaac Asimov
#38. If you will here stop and ask yourselves why you are not as pious as the primitive Christians were, your own heart will tell you, that it is neither through ignorance nor inability, but purely because you never thoroughly intended it.
William Law
#40. There are some of us who in after years say to Fate, 'Now deal us your hardest blow, give us what you will; but let us never again suffer as we suffered when we were children.' The barb in the arrow of childhood's suffering is this: its intense loneliness, its intense ignorance.
Olive Schreiner
#41. Be satisfied in your ignorance for there is no safety in knowledge.
Coral Russell
#42. I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation.
Anthony Hope
#43. For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
John Dryden
#44. If you really want to change the world, you must first understand it adequately, or all you will do is reproduce in larger numbers your own ignorance.
Ken Wilber
#45. Foreigner is a word created by guilt and the fears, ignorance, and weaknesses of your own ego.
Ben Tolosa
#46. But forgiveness is the act of not putting anyone out of your heart, even those who are acting out of deep ignorance or out of confusion and pain.
Jack Kornfield
#47. To learn, you must be humble. You must be prepared to admit your ignorance. You must allow yourselves to be filled with the vital information presented to you via the skills and dedication of those who have gone before you down the long path to enlightenment.
Paula Brackston
#48. You must know the purpose of your life and reach it confidently
Sunday Adelaja
#49. Our ignorance allowed us to live, as you are in the mountains, and your rope is frayed and about to break, but you don't know it and feel safe.
Primo Levi
#50. You see many stars in the sky at night, but not when the sun rises. Can you therefore say that there are no stars in the heavens during the day? Because you cannot find God in the days of your ignorance, say not that there is no God.
Ramakrishna
#51. You have been cast into a race in which the wind is always at your face and the hounds are always at your heels. And to varying degrees this is true of all life. The difference is that you do not have the privilege of living in ignorance of this essential fact.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#52. All you've got to do is own up to your ignorance honestly, and you'll find people who are eager to fill your head with information.
Walt Disney
#53. It is not difficult to pass for being learned. The secret is not to betray your ignorance.
Guy De Maupassant
#54. Whatever you do, it will be a path. Life does not work like a light switch - on/off, fat/skinny, miserable/happy, crazy/sane. All things take time, patience, and practice. Anyone who tells you different is profiting off your fearful ignorance of the truth.
Vironika Tugaleva
#55. Whoever you may be, if your name is Prejudice, Abuse, Ignorance, Oppression, Iniquity, Despotism, Injustice, Fanaticism, Tyranny, beware of the gaping gamin. The little fellow will grow up.
Victor Hugo
#56. You are not blamed for your unwilling ignorance, but because you fail to ask about what you do not know ... For no one is prevented from leaving behind the disadvantage of ignorance and seeking the advantage of knowledge.
Augustine Of Hippo
#57. You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain free-margin , or even vagueness - ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of these things.
Walt Whitman
#58. People you've known, seemingly forever, may claim to have love for you, but when gossip's tainted tongue whips you - they don't show enough love to weigh your history against false witness. Be that as it may, press forward as the dust settles. Your purpose is much bigger than their paltriness.
T.F. Hodge
#59. Because you were raised by ignorant people. They taught you to use things before you understood them. To kill things before you recognized them. To hate things before you knew them. But you'll appreciate a thing better when you know where it comes from, when your hands know the shape of it.
Lila Bowen
#60. Do what helps others.
Refrain from harming others.
Transcend your own ignorance, clinging, hate, fear and delusion.
This and only this is the dispensation of all the Buddhas.
Paul R. Fleischman
#61. Ignorance breeds fear; the more you learn about your subject, the less fear it holds for you.
Brian Tracy
#62. The more you learn the more you understand the size of your own ignorance.
Joe Abercrombie
#63. Until you truly learn how to act well, you shall always act only for your actions to teach you how to act well
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#64. You want to know yourself. For this keep steadily in the focus of consciousness, the only clue you have: your certainty of being. Be with it, play with it, ponder over it, delve deeply into it, till the shell of ignorance breaks open and you emerge into the realm of reality.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
#65. Your failure is measured by your aspirations. Aspire not, and you cannot fail. Columbus died in chains. Joan or Arc was burned at the stake. Let us all live snugly -- and life will soon be little more than a thick, gelatinous stream of comfortability and ignorance.
Myles Connolly
#66. I'm not a surgeon.' 'You don't have to be. You're an engineer. That's almost the same thing.' 'Your ignorance is frightening.
Jodi Taylor
#67. There's a lot of ignorance about how long it takes to write a novel. There's a lot of ignorance about how long a novel is in your head before you start to write it.
John Irving
#68. You can be used by someone for their aims when you are not aware of your true being
Sunday Adelaja
#69. Do not hide your ignorance, because somebody might help you! Hiding always prolongs the problems.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#70. Vision? What do you know about my vision? My vision would turn your world upside down, tear asunder your illusions, and send the sanctuary of your own ignorance crashing down around you. Now ask yourself. Are you really ready to see that vision?
Huey Freeman
#71. Cheapness and ignorance are mutually reinforcing. And it's a short way from not knowing who's at the other end of your food chain to not caring - to the carelessness of both producers and consumers.
Michael Pollan
#72. When there's a monster under your bed sometimes it really is best not to look.
Jocelynn Drake
#73. You can hold on to the smallest doubt and take comfort in it, stay in denial and go on with your carefree life, until one day you're finally cornered by a truth that can no longer be ignored.
Glenn Beck
#74. hierarchies are lies. Because no one needs the alpha. He gets to the top by puffing and bluffing until we all believe he belongs there. When your power is built on ignorance, you don't want people talking to each other.
Isaac Marion
#75. Do not take the yardstick of your ignorance to measure what the ancients knew, and call everything which you do not know lies. Do not call things untrue because they are marvelous, but give them a fair consideration.
Wendell Phillips
#76. You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.
Harlan Ellison
#77. I'll be your foil, Laertes: in mine ignorance your skill shall, like a star i' the darkest night, stick fiery off indeed.
William Shakespeare
#78. You will have power and wealth, but what are these to a scholar? You will end your life an oasis in a desert of ignorance.
Dorothy Dunnett
#79. The measure of an education is that you acquire some idea of the extent of your ignorance.
Christopher Hitchens
#80. It is only when the mirror has not spoken to Chimpanzee in a plain language that it thinks it looks more better than the Gorilla
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#81. Dead in the mind, meanin you're present but your ignorance only makes ur presense worse!
Sister Souljah
#82. Against ignorance there is no front line. Against viciousness no border can hold. It breeds as readily behind your back as elsewhere.' 'What
Steven Erikson
#83. A lot of the public responses are based on the prejudices and ignorance, they've been inherited from previous generations. California has always been a multicultural state, but the thing is, you've got to open your eyes and people in general need to get over their own prejudices.
Luis Valdez
#84. There's no shame compared to being beautiful with nothing in your brain, an ugly devil with wits is much better that the former.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#85. I envy your ignorance, I hear that it's bliss.
Ani DiFranco
#86. you are trained for job but you are born to work.Exert then your energy in the right proportion on the most vital matters
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#88. That's maturity-when you realize that you've finally arrived at a state of ignorance as profound as your parents.
Barbara Mertz
#89. What if you suddenly saw through all your fear and ignorance, your restless craziness, and realized that you already possess what you are looking for because you already are everything you are looking for?
Karen Maezen Miller
#90. You keep meaning to cultivate an expertise in spectator sport. More and more you realize that sports trivia is crucial to male camaraderie. You keenly feel your ignorance. You are locked out of the largest fraternity in the country.
Jay McInerney
#91. Meditate upon the Knowledge and Bliss Eternal , and you will also have bliss. The Bliss indeed is eternal, only it is covered and obscured by ignorance. The less your attachment is towards the senses, the more will be your love towards God .
Ramakrishna
#92. If you are not aware of your destination, you are likely to become used by someone in accordance with his purpose and to work for a person who knows his plans and goals
Sunday Adelaja
#93. Sometimes what appears to be a difficult ethical quandary is simply the product of ignorance about your options.
John Kroger
#94. In the age of information, ignorance is a choice. Question everything. Don't believe everything you hear. Come to your own conclusions.
Mark Patterson
#95. The secret is not to betray your ignorance. Just maneuver, avoid the quicksands and obstacles, and the rest can be found in a dictionary.
Guy De Maupassant
#96. Never get to the point where you will be ashamed to ask anybody for information. The ignorant man will always be ignorant if he fears that by asking another for information he will display ignorance. Better once display your ignorance of a certain subject than always know nothing of it.
Booker T. Washington
#97. Knowing your ignorance is far better than knowing what you know! Understanding the path and will of God is far better than mastering your own path.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#98. I can fight with a real problem. But I cannot solve the ignorance. I cannot solve the illusion of your mind.
Ravindra Shukla
#99. What did you have in you? - some childish notions, a few half-baked sentiments, a lot of undigested beauty, a great black mass of ignorance, a heart filled to bursting with love, and an ambition as big as your love and as futile as your ignorance.
Jack London
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