Ignorance Quotes

If anyone else asked that question, O He Who Is Terrible and Great, I would have said they were an i...

We have a very precise image - an image at times shameless - of what we have lost, but we are ignora...

It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.

The trouble ain't that people are ignorant: it's that they know so much that ain't so.

The Iraq War was the biggest issue for people of my generation in the West. It was also the clearest...

Ignorance never yet helped anybody.

Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.

It’s ignorant to think you know everything about a person. There’s many different sides to everybody...

Ignorance and prejudice are the handmaidens of propaganda. Our mission, therefore, is to confront ig...

The good Lord set definite limits on man's wisdom but set no limits on his stupidity - and that's j...

Now then, Mr. Crab," said the zebra, "here are the people I told you about; and they know more than ...

To know that you do not know is the best.To think you know when you do not is a disease.Recognizing ...

If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.

truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not g...

Misunderstanding arising from ignorance breeds fear, and fear remains the greatest enemy of peace.

The greatest of all the accomplishments of 20th century science has been the discovery of human igno...

I have always wanted to be somebody but I see now I should have been more specific.

...Writings can be stolen, or changed, or used for evil purposes. But isn't the risk worth taking? T...

The world demands I make good choices on no information, and then blames my maidenhood for my mistak...

Only one who has learned much can fully appreciate his ignorance.

...the way I figure, no man has the right to be ignorant. In a country like this, ignorance is a cri...

For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian──ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, wh...

The knowledge from an enlightened person breaks on the hard rocks of ignorance.

Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it...

All the great evils which men cause to each other because of certain intentions, desires, opinions, ...

His sisters -- my aunts -- did not go to school at all, just like millions of girls in my country. E...

So what I had believed to be nothing to me was simply my entire life. How ignorant one is of oneself...

What you don’t know won’t hurt you. A dubious maxim: sometimes what you don’t know can hurt you very...

How could I have been so ignorant? she thinks. So stupid, so unseeing, so given over to carelessness...

I would like to be without shame. I would like to be shameless. I would like to be ignorant. Then I ...

Don't judge what you don't know.

Whenever two good people argue over principles they are both right.

But through years of myth-making and fear-sowing, Christianity meta-morphosed antichrists into a sin...

All this misjudgment that we have of each other is based on ignorance. The second you get to travel,...

To know you are ignorant is the beginning of wisdom,” Viviane said. “Then, when you begin to learn, ...

When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. B...

It is strange the way the ignorant and inexperienced so often and so undeservedly succeed when the i...

Well, there was a sort of bastard justice in his view of the case, and so I dropped the matter. When...

Ah, heavens and earth, friend, if you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, yo...

For a little while, hope made a show of reviving-not with any reason to back it, but only because it...

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

Let us all hope that the dark clouds of racial prejudice will soon pass away and the deep fog of mis...

Scientists habitually moan that the public doesn't understand them. But they complain too much: publ...

Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.

Either god exists or it doesn’t exist. If a god does exist, it either interacts with the universe in...

The devil lives in our mistakes, the lord lives in our rights. Who lives in our ignorance, and who w...

Words are things. You must be careful, careful about calling people out of their names, using racial...

Ignorance is a terrible thing. It causes families to lose their center and causes people to lose the...

Inexperience can be overcome, ignorance can be enlightened, but prejudice will destroy you.

How merciful a thing is man's ignorance of his immediate future! What a ghastly, paralysing thing it...

A wonderful area for speculative academic work is the unknowable. These days religious subjects are ...

The men on the trading floor may not have been to school, but they have Ph.D.’s in man’s ignorance.

Eating is an agricultural act,' as Wendell Berry famously said. It is also an ecological act, and a ...

Much of our food system depends on our not knowing much about it, beyond the price disclosed by the ...

Did I know myself less, I might perhaps venture to handle something or other to the bottom, and to b...

...were these Essays of mine considerable enough to deserve a critical judgment, it might then, I th...

Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.

It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.

Memory cannot be understood, either, without a mathematical approach. The fundamental given is the r...

A man is responsible for his ignorance.

It’s very simple. As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed at twenty-two, you’d always be as ignor...

A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.

The biggest battle is the war against ignorance.

And then this whole deal of new gods, old gods," said his friend. "You ask me, I welcome new gods. B...

What a refreshing mind you have, young man. There really is nothing quite like total ignorance, is t...

And, too ignorant to be scared, too young to be awed, Tristan Thorn traveled beyond the fields we kn...

Some people have great ideas maybe once or twice in their life, and then they discover electricity o...

In America, everyone is entitled to an opinion, and it is certainly useful to have a few when a poll...

Ignorance is a virus. Once it starts spreading, it can only be cured by reason. For the sake of huma...

There’s a fascinating frailty of the human mind that psychologists know all about, called “argument ...

But you can’t be a scientist if you’re uncomfortable with ignorance, because scientists live at the ...

... there is no shame in not knowing. The problem arises when irrational thought and attendant behav...

Men are always averse to enterprises in which they foresee difficulties.

I'm told by my young friends that experience is much more important than books. Of course Ben Frankl...

Today the most civilized countries of the world spend a maximum of their income on war and a minimum...

A very, in a sense, terrifying aspect of our society, and other societies, is the equanimity and the...

Our ignorance can be divided into problems and mysteries. When we face a problem, we may not know it...

One of the difficulties in raising public concern over the very severe threats of global warming is ...

Education is a system of imposed ignorance.

At its root, the logic is that of the Grand Inquisitor, who bitterly assailed Christ for offering pe...

Science is the topography of ignorance.

Poke had never shared out so many raisins, because she had never had so many to share. But the littl...

I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exoti...

It takes a very long time to become young.

I guess ignorance is bliss - when I do interviews people always say, "Aren't you upset that people m...

So when you spot violence, or bigotry, or intolerance or fear or just garden-variety misogyny, hatre...

It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object beware of thi...

Great things are accomplished by those who do not feel the impotence of man. This ... is a precious ...

When we set out on the path, we always have a fairly clear idea of what we hope to find. Women are g...

The young do not know enough to be prudent and therefore they attempt the impossible-and achieve it...

Fate is unalterable only in the sense that given a cause, a certain result must follow, but no cause...

Fatally, the term 'barbarian' is the password that opens up the archives of the twentieth century. I...

And the priests looked down into the pit of injustice and they turned their faces away and said, 'Ou...

Invincible ignorance always upset him, even though he knew he should just laugh at it.

Strange to know nothing, never to be sureOf what is true or right or real,But forced to qualify or s...

Simple was never that simple. Still, the self-questioning did take some time to reach him. And if th...

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though limits to our abilities do not exist.

[Science] dissipates errors born of ignorance about our true relations with nature, errors the more ...

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; t...