Top 56 What Ignorance Can Do Quotes
#1. How marvelous books are, crossing worlds and centuries, defeating ignorance and, finally, cruel time itself.
Gore Vidal
#2. Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.
Bertrand Russell
#3. The thing about stereotyping is it's usually just throwing rocks into a crowd hoping to hit somebody who deserves it.
Criss Jami
#4. The stars in the sky last for billions of years. That's nothing to the mind, nothing. It's an instant, a millisecond. The mind shines radiantly forever. But we don't see the shine because of the clutter.
Frederick Lenz
#5. To know one's ignorance is the best part of knowledge.
Laozi
#6. It's the truth I'm after, and the truth never harmed anyone. What harms us is to persist in self-deceit and ignorance.
Marcus Aurelius
#7. The more I see of the country, the less I feel I know about it. There is a saying that after five years in the north every man is an expert; after ten years, a novice.
Pierre Berton
#8. When we are born we are magical and loving and full of wonder. But darkness and ignorance surround us at every corner. Until the day someone calls us a monster or a devil and we believe them.
Philip Ridley
#9. Don't ever mistake silence for ignorance, when it is obviously stupidity
Josh Stern
#10. Ignorance plays the chief part among men, and the multitude of words.
Diogenes Laertius
#11. I would like to think of my 'ignorance' less as a personal failing and more as a massive cultural trend, an example of doubling, of psychic numbing, that characterizes the end of the millennium. If we can't act on knowledge, then we can't survive without ignorance.
Ruth Ozeki
#12. Praying in a Temple is like Lighting a Candle. One kills the ignorance and the other kills the darkness .
Gaurav Rao
#13. The true Wisdom is in recognizing our own ignorance.
Socrates
#14. Ignorance, poverty, and greed must disappear so that light can prevail in all places.
Helen Keller
#15. The privileges of knowledge have to be bought at the cost of the consolations of ignorance.
John Fowles
#17. We're never called on to do what hurts. We just do what hurts out of ignorance and habit. Once we see what we're doing, we can stop.
Steve Hagen
#18. We are ignorant of what it is we do not know even though we know more than we can ever say
G.L.S. Shackle
#19. ignorance to a certain degree can be corrected but, it shall always be an effort in futility to correct a certain degree of ignorance!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#20. I can do nothing without His help. Oh, Lord, what ignorance thinking everything was wealth.
Venus Angelica Perez
#21. There is no shame in ignorance, only in denying it. By knowing what we do not know, we can take steps to remedy our lack of knowledge
Graham McNeill
#22. One of the most irresponsible things we can do is eat in ignorance, without any awareness of what our eating is doing to the world or to other species.
Michael Pollan
#23. Only a blind man can easily define what light is. When you do not know, you are bold. Ignorance is always bold; knowledge hesitates. And the more you know, the more you feel that the ground underneath is dissolving. The more you know, the more you feel how ignorant you are.
Osho
#24. It is astonishing what you can do when you have a lot of energy, ambition and plenty of ignorance.
Alfred P. Sloan
#26. You do not realize what can happen when you liberate a mind from what society calls reason.
Ben Willoughby
#27. Nicholas of Cusa said we have to be educated into our ignorance or else the full presence of the divine will be kept at bay. We have to arrive at that difficult point where we don't know what is going on or what we can do. That precise point is an opening to true faith. The
Thomas Moore
#28. Acquire knowledge before you become leaders and pride prevents you from learning and you live in ignorance.
Umar
#29. 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
#30. Erik maintained his ignorance in any and every matter he came across, and even improved upon it when he could. The
Steven Brust
#31. Why should we subsidize intellectual curiosity?
Ronald Reagan
#32. Excellent. Ignorance is most undervalued in a student.
Gail Carriger
#33. Religious leaders will always avail themselves of public ignorance for their own purpose.
Thomas Jefferson
#35. You can be in a state of mind for a few seconds and forget that you were ever in any other state of mind. That's what we mean by illusion.
Frederick Lenz
#36. The time will come when all people will view with horror light way in which society and its courts of law now take human life; and when that time comes, the way will be clear to device some better method of dealing with poverty and ignorance and their frequent byproducts, which we call crime.
Clarence Darrow
#37. If any man is able to convince me and show me that I do not think or act right, I will gladly change; for I seek the truth by which no man was ever injured. But he is injured who abides in his error and ignorance.
Marcus Aurelius
#38. Slavery is the parent of ignorance, and ignorance begets a whole brood of follies and vices; and every one of these is inevitably hostile to literary culture.
Hinton Rowan Helper
#39. Is the basic teaching of Buddhism - on ignorance, deliverance and enlightenment - really life-denying, or is it rather the same kind of life-affirming liberation that we find in the Good News of Redemption, the Gift of the Spirit, and the New Creation?
Thomas Merton
#40. A knowledgeable manager can lend to the success of an organization "almost" as much as a poorly trained manager can damage it.
Mark W. Boyer
#41. This castaway, that, like a man transplanted into another planet, was separated by an immense space from his past and by an immense ignorance from his future.
Joseph Conrad
#42. Whoever will imagine a perpetual confession of ignorance, a judgment without leaning or inclination, on any occasion whatever, hasa conception of Pyrrhonism.
Michel De Montaigne
#43. But let a man know that there are things to be known, of which he is ignorant, and it is so much carved out of his domain of universal knowledge.
Horace Mann
#44. Understanding is better than ignorance. Ignorance, unlike life, unlike narrative, is static. Understanding implies a forward motion, thus the possibility of change.
Robert Charles Wilson
#45. Wisdom is a weapon, knowledge is the armor, and ignorance the enemy.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#46. I took acres of fertile ignorance up to that place. And they started to pour preconceptions all over it. Like forty tons of cement. No thanks. I got out before it hardened. I did a year, passed
William McIlvanney
#47. Brahman is the ultimate reality; it is simultaneously Saguna and Nirguna; divisions are due to ignorance. Mind and intellect can never catch hold of it; they have only one option and that is to merge with it.
Amit Ray
#48. I win by means of nothing but logic and I surrender to nothing but logic. I do not surrender my reason or deal with men who surrender theirs.
Ayn Rand
#49. A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the region of ignorance that tyranny begins. Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin
#50. The key to holding a logical argument or debate is to allow oneself to understand the other person's argument no matter how divergent their views may seem.
Auliq Ice
#52. There is no slight danger from general ignorance; and the only choice which Providence has graciously left to a vicious government is either to fall by the people, if they are suffered to become enlightened, or with them, if they are kept enslaved and ignorant.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#53. The only enemy is ignorance. Peace, people. Let's get rid of all this nuclear testing.
Jon Bon Jovi
#54. Science is trumped by ignorance when the ignorant are given a vote.
Chuck Wendig
#55. 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
#56. 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
