Top 76 Wisdom In Ignorance Quotes
#1. .. The point of human life is to travel from ignorance to wisdom. In ignorance there is fear. In wisdom there peace and tranquillity.
Devdutt Pattanaik
#2. Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance.
Anthony De Mello
#3. When we clearly realize that the source of disharmony and misery in the world is ignorance, we can open the door of wisdom and compassion.
Jack Kornfield
#4. The sure foundations of the state are laid in knowledge, not in ignorance; and every sneer at education, at culture, at book learning, which is the recorded wisdom of the experience of mankind, is the demagogue's sneer at intelligent liberty, inviting national degeneracy and ruin.
George William Curtis
#5. He supposed it was inevitable. Dip a person into one particular specialty deeply enough and long enough, and he would automatically begin to assume that specialists in all other fields were magicians, judging the depth of their wisdom by the breadth of his own ignorance ...
Isaac Asimov
#6. Exposure to a mixed body of evidence made both sides even more convinced of the fundamental soundness of their original beliefs.' Confirmation bias is profoundly human and it is appalling. When new information leads to an increase in ignorance, it is the opposite of learning, the death of wisdom.
Will Storr
#7. What you have in hand may be of less essence to knowing and using what you have in hand
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#8. In an ideal world, we'd all transform ourselves into experts and make judgments based on extensive knowledge. Given that this will never happen, our next best option is to emulate the wisdom of Socrates: We become wiser when we acknowledge our ignorance.
Joshua Greene
#10. A lot of the situations that we put ourselves in are similar to a cat in a yard full of dogs. We rarely ask ourselves how we got here, (which doesn't help with the question of how we get out of here), all of which rarely keeps us from finding ourselves in the next yard asking the same questions.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#11. If you have wisdom, you will be able to reign in every area of your life.
Sunday Adelaja
#13. The are two kinds of people in this modern society. First and the majority are those fools who think they are wise, and second are the few wise individuals who know that they are fools.
Abhijit Naskar
#14. There is a certain poetic value, and that a genuine one, in this sense of having missed the full meaning of things. There is beauty, not only in wisdom, but in this dazed and dramatic
ignorance.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#15. I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
Thomas Carlyle
#16. The reason for the past is only revealed in the future.
Kamand Kojouri
#17. The sun of truth rises in the human being and illuminates his world when he lifts his mind from the darkness of ignorance and selfishness into the light of wisdom and altruism
Samael Aun Weor
#18. All the great evils which men cause to each other because of certain intentions, desires, opinions, or religious principles, are likewise due to non-existence, because they originate in ignorance, which is absence of wisdom.
Maimonides
#19. It is always possible that society you live in might go backwards, towards the land of ignorance and darkness! While this tragedy and stupidity happening, you must move forward! You must walk forward, towards the light and wisdom, to the land of reason!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#20. What, after all, is heaven, but a transition from dim guesses and blind struggling with a mysterious and adverse fate to the fullness of all wisdom
from ignorance, in a word, to knowledge, but knowledge of what order?
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#21. I only know when I don't know a thing ... wisdom lies in that.
George MacDonald
#22. There is a very pervasive web of falsehoods that the dreamer must wake from in order to start on her path. These are the lies of the mad world, the system of delusion maintained by human drama and ignorance.
Carolyn Elliott
#23. It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.
George Eliot
#24. Modern society drinks in streams of information while dying of wisdom thirst.
Orrin Woodward
#25. There was a certain wisdom in doing little, when one was obliged to act in ignorance.
C.J. Cherryh
#26. Given the unprecedented ignorance of the Bible in contemporary America, it is likely that more young Americans will only know the Noah of 'Noah.' We can only hope that the film offers even a fraction of the wisdom of the original.
Dennis Prager
#27. Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.
G.K. Chesterton
#28. 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
#29. Open the gates of wisdom, tear the veil of ignorance, enter the abode of Divine Bliss. Rest in peace forever.
Sathya Sai Baba
#30. We are all ignorant once and only when someone or something that knows more than us, comes in.
Emmanuel Aghado
#31. A man once said, 'All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.' Mark Twain, you know. He had a fine mustache. Men of wisdom so often do.
Laini Taylor
#32. There is no shame in ignorance before a higher power but there is shame in arrogance.
Ian-Anthony Finnimore
#33. God stands in no need of our strength or wisdom, but of our ignorance, of our weakness; let us but give these to Him, and He can make use of us in winning souls.
Dwight L. Moody
#35. Wisdom gives you the ability to chose what is right.
In the darkness of hate and ignorance, it is the light.
Debasish Mridha
#36. The source of all the problems in the world is ignorance - the limited view point or narrow mindedness or the conditioned state of mind. As the individual learn the fundamental truths of life and move up in the scale of life, to that extent his/her ignorance go away and become open/free.
Thomas Vazhakunnathu
#38. Forgive them, you might say, for they know not what they do. But there comes a moment in history when ignorance is no longer a forgivable offense, a moment when only wisdom has the power to absolve.
Dan Brown
#39. When ignorance is bliss, there's folly in wisdom.
David Eddings
#40. There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance-that principle is contempt prior to investigation.
Herbert Spencer
#41. until we courageously find a cheaper antidote to our ignorance, we shall courageously pay a higher price for our ignorance always
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#42. Do not desperately seek refuge in heaven and delve in blissful ignorance; discover the fires and infernos of hell that have sprung inside of you.
Forrest Curran
#43. The compassionate person does not require other people to be stupid, in order to be intelligent. Their intelligence is for everyone, so as to have a world in which there is less ignorance. (118)
Jean-Yves Leloup
#44. the apostles of mediocrity shall always stand to defend mediocrity out of mediocrity
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#45. In ignorance I am something; in understanding I am nothing, in love I am everything.
Rupert Spira
#46. Endless invention, endless experiment,
Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness;
Knowledge of speech, but not of silence;
Knowledge of words, and ignorance of the Word.
Where is the Life we have lost in living?
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
T. S. Eliot
#47. Its strange how some people ignore the logic just because they believe what they like to believe and ignore the truth.
Auliq Ice
#48. The continually moving mind is philosophically symbolized by the avatar Fudo Myo-o, the Wisdom King, often depicted holding a sword in one hand for cutting through ignorance, and a rope in the other for tying up passions.
Yagyu Munenori
#49. To know the mighty works of God, to comprehend His wisdom and majesty and power; to appreciate, in degree, the wonderful workings of His laws, surely all this must be a pleasing and acceptable mode of worship to the Most High, to whom ignorance cannot be more grateful than knowledge.
Nicolaus Copernicus
#50. While differing widely in the various little bits we know, in our infinite ignorance we are all equal.
Karl Popper
#51. In case you're short on definitions, here's one. Insanity: 'Destroying the very things that sustain us.' And if we're so short-sighted so as to make such preposterous choices, then it's not all that preposterous to believe that shortly our end will be in sight.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#53. Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.
Saadi
#54. Had there not been five bad qualities, all the people would have been righteous. Contentment with ignorance; love for worldly life; miserliness inspite of much wealth; ostentation in (good) deeds; and pride in their own intelligence.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#56. The ending of sorrow is the beginning of wisdom. Knowledge is always within the shadow of ignorance. Meditation is freedom from thought and a movement in the ecstasy of truth. Meditation is explosion of intelligence.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#57. I hope I reach the point where epiphanies become so commonplace that I scarcely bother to register them: Oh look, another epiphany - as we acquire knowledge we become mired in the ignorance of the educated, delivered from the wisdom of innocence by a corrupted midwife. Now what's on telly?
Anonymous
#58. The true Wisdom is in recognizing our own ignorance.
Socrates
#59. 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
#60. Beware of ignorance when in motion; look out for inexperience when in action, and beware of the majority when mentally poisoned with misinformation, for collective ignorance does not become wisdom.
William J.H. Boetcker
#61. I seek the truth ... it is only persistence in self-delusion and ignorance that does harm.
Marcus Aurelius
#62. Everybody should read something. Otherwise we all fall down into the pit of ignorance. Many are down there. Some people fall in it forever. Their lives mean nothing. They should not exist. (From the short story, "Charity".)
Charles Baxter
#63. Racism does not diminish with brains, it's a disease, a sickness, it may incubate in ignorance but it doesn't necessarily disappear with the gaining of wisdom!
Bryce Courtenay
#64. In times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity.
Abraham Lincoln
#65. 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
#66. The value of hatred and ignorance is found in the fact that without them we could never truly appreciate wisdom and love.
Wes Fesler
#67. 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
#68. The fear and anxiety that infect humanity today are the results of this degradation of values, this ignorance of what is of significance and what is not, this want of faith in what the elders and sages have handed down as the wisdom of ages. People prefer what is pleasing to what is beneficial.
Sathya Sai Baba
#69. There comes a moment in history when ignorance is no longer a forgivable offense ... a moment when only wisdom has the power to absolve. - Bertrand Zobrist
Dan Brown
#70. Sometimes in the ignorance I feel the meaning Invincible invisible wisdom, And I commune with intuitive instinct With the force that made life be And since it made life be It is greater than life And since it let extinction be It is greater than extinction. I commune with feelings more than prayer
Sun Ra
#71. We are living in a world where Ignorance is celebrated as wisdom and Wisdom sidelined as Ignorance.
Rajesh Nanoo
#72. Against a stupidity that is in fashion, no wisdom compensates.
Theodor Fontane
#73. The only lightless dark is the night of ignorance and insensibility. We differ, blind and seeing, one from another, not in our senses, but in the use we make of them, in the imagination and courage with which we seek wisdom beyond our senses.
Helen Keller
#74. He often said that knowledge is the brightest jewel in a queen's crown. And if my mother was about, she would never fail to add, 'when tempered by wisdom. Knowledge without comprehension is worse than ignorance.
Mereda Hart Farynyk
#75. Ignorance fears diversity as an invading enemy, while wisdom welcomes diversity in an alliance of friendship.
Wes Fesler
#76. He was one of the numerous and varied legion of dullards, of half-animated abortions, conceited, half-educated coxcombs, who attach themselves to the idea most in fashion only to vulgarize it and who caricature every cause they serve, however sincerely.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
