Quotes about ignorance
ignorance knowing sake
...not everyone is willing to defend a position of 'not knowing.' There is no virtue in ignorance for its own sake. B. F. Skinner
ignorance patriotic simple
I am a simple vessel with complex overtones, opinionated on occasions but willing to listen. Comfortable with reclusiveness and devoted to privacy and family. Patriotic to a fault and allergic to cruelty, ignorance and bad music. Bernie Taupin
ignorance creativity years
Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago. Bernard Berenson
ignorance hands support
Science tells us what we can know but what we can know is little and if we forget how much we cannot know we become insensitive of many things of very great importance. Theology, on the other hand induces a dogmatic belief that we have knowledge where in fact we have ignorance and by doing so generates a kind of impertinent insolence towards the universe. Uncertainty in the presence of vivid hopes and fears is painful, but must be endured if we wish to live without the support of comforting fairy tales. Bertrand Russell
ignorance mystery delightful
Mystery is delightful, but unscientific, since it depends upon ignorance.
ignorance ignorant depth
The dictum that human nature cannot be changed is one of those tiresome platitudes that conceal from the ignorant the depths of their own ignorance.
ignorance religion tyranny
...It is in the religion of ignorance that tyranny begins... Benjamin Franklin
ignorance moon night star
Ignorance is the night of the mind, a night without moon or star Confucius
ignorance moon night
Ignorance is the night of mind, a night without moon or star.
ignorance paying penalty
There is a penalty for ignorance. We are paying through the nose.
ignorance men world
No man has a right to be idle. Where is it that in such a world as this, that health, and leisure, and affluence may not find some ignorance to instruct, some wrong to redress, some want to supply, some misery to alleviate? William Wilberforce
ignorance unique men
After an inferior man has been taught a doctrine of superiority he will remain as inferior as he was before his lesson. He will merely assume himself to be superior, and attempt to employ his recently-learned tactics against his own kind, whom he will then consider his inferiors. With each inferior man enjoying what he considers his unique role, the entire bunch will be reduced to a pack of strutting, foppish, self-centered monkeys gamboling about on an island of ignorance. There they will play their games under the supervision of their keeper, who was and always will be a superior man. Anton LaVey
ignorance character names
Someone has said,"Education is going from an unconscious to conscious awareness of one's ignorance."..No one has a corner on wisdom. All the name-dropping in the world does not heighten the significance of our character. If anything, it reduces it. Our acute need is to cultivate a willingness to learn and to remain teachable. Charles R. Swindoll
ignorance judging doubt
Persecution always says, 'I know the consequences of your opinion better than you know them yourselves.' But the language of toleration was always amicable, liberal, and just: it confessed its doubts, and acknowledged its ignorance ... Persecution had always reasoned from cause to effect, from opinion to action, [that such an opinion would invariably lead to but one action], which proved generally erroneous; while toleration led us invariably to form just conclusions, by judging from actions and not from opinions. Charles James Fox
ignorance science men
A man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere. Charles Kettering
ignorance men thoughtful
Education is man's going forward from cocksure ignorance to thoughtful uncertainty.Where there is an open mind there will always be a frontier.
ignorance law profound
Nevertheless so profound is our ignorance, and so high our presumption, that we marvel when we hear of the extinction of an organic being; and as we do not see the cause, we invoke cataclysms to desolate the world, or invent laws on the duration of the forms of life! Charles Darwin
ignorance men thinking
The more one thinks, the more one feels the hopeless immensity of man's ignorance.
ignorance thinking expression
It is so easy to hide our ignorance under such expressions as the plan of creation or unity of design, etc., and to think that we give an explanation when we only restate a fact.
ignorance law miracle
If we define a miracle as an effect of which the cause is unknown to us, then we make our ignorance the source of miracles! and the universe itself would be a standing miracle. A miracle might be perhaps defined more exactly as an effect which is not the consequence or effect of any known laws of nature. Charles Babbage
ignorance math defense
The best defense against logic is ignorance. Blaise Pascal
ignorance men thinking
Being unable to cure death, wretchedness, and ignorance, men have decided, in order to be happy, not to think about such things.
ignorance knowledge desire
Extremes are for us as though they were not, and we are not within their notice. They escape us, or we them. This is our true state; this is what makes us incapable of certain knowledge and of absolute ignorance... This is our natural condition, and yet most contrary to our inclination; we burn with desire to find solid ground and an ultimate sure foundation whereon to build a tower reaching to the Infinite. But our whole groundwork cracks, and the earth opens to abysses.
ignorance vanity causes
The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.
ignorance bliss blisters
If ignorance were bliss, he'd be a blister
ignorance knowledge men
The great mass of people judge well of things, for they are in natural ignorance, which is man's true state.
ignorance thinking want
I attribute all my success to ignorance. If you don't ever think about not getting where you want to be, I think it helps you out. Billy Bob Thornton
ignorance emptiness virtue
Freedom comes from seeing the ignorance of your critics and discovering the emptiness of their virtue. Ayn Rand
ignorance men evil
Man's basic vice, the source of all his evils, is the act of unfocusing his mind, the suspension of his consciousness, which is not blindness, but the refusal to see, not ignorance, but the refusal to know.
ignorance giving advice
Silence is the only answer you should give to the fools. Where ignorance speaks, intelligence should not give advices. Benito Mussolini
ignorance intelligent intelligence
Ignorance never settles a question. Benjamin Disraeli
ignorance rights law
Those who want their rights respected under the Constitution and the law ought to set the example themselves of observing the Constitution and the law. While there may be those of high intelligence who violate the law at times, the barbarian and the defective always violate it. Those who disregard the rules of society are not exhibiting a superior intelligence, are not promoting freedom and independence, are not following the path of civilization, but are displaying the traits of ignorance, of servitude, of savagery, and treading the way that leads back to the jungle. Calvin Coolidge
ignorance directors males
I happen to have worked with male directors who don't understand women at all. Not at all. I'm flabbergasted by their ignorance. Catherine McCormack