Famous Quotes & Sayings

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Female gossips are generally actuated by active ignorance.

Ian Hacking

Probability fractions arise from our knowledge and from our ignorance.

Horace Porter

Oh, the ignorance of us upon whom Providence did not sufficiently smile to permit us to be born in New England.

Horace Walpole

Two large prominent eyes that rolled about to no purpose (for he was utterly short-sighted) a wide mouth, thick lips and inflated visage, gave him the air of a blind trumpeter. A deep untuneable voice which, instead of modulating, he enforced with unnecsessary pomp, a total neglect of his person, and ignorance of every civil attention, disgusted all who judge by appearance.

Horace Walpole

Nothing has shown more fully the prodigious ignorance of human ideas and their littleness, than the discovery of [Sir William] Herschell, that what used to be called the Milky Way is a portion of perhaps an infinite multitude of worlds!

Horace

Hidden knowledge differs little from ignorance.

Horace Mann

Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.

Horace Mann

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

There is nothing so costly as ignorance.

Horace Mann

On entering this world our starting-point is ignorance. None, however, but idiots remain there.

Horace Mann

Ignorance has been well represented under the similitude of a dungeon, where, though it is full of life, yet darkness and silence reign. But in society the bars and locks have been broken; the dungeon itself is demolished; the prisoners are out; they are in the midst of us. We have no security but to teach and renovate them.

Homer

Who ne'er knew salt, or heard the billows roar.

Hunter S. Thompson

Fear is just another word for ignorance.

Hunter S. Thompson

Paranoia is just another mask for ignorance.

Hunter S. Thompson

Paranoia is just another mask for ignorance. The truth, when you finally chase it down is almost always far worse than your darkest visions and fears

Hugo Grotius

Ignorance of certain subjects is a great part of wisdom.

Honore de Balzac

Man's condition is horrible because, no matter what form his happiness may take, it arises from some species of ignorance.

Honore de Balzac

Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance

Grover Cleveland

We will not forget that Liberty has made her home here, nor shall her chosen altar be neglected...A stream of light shall pierce the darkness of ignorance and mans oppression until Liberty enlightens the world.

James D. Watson

Racists have often used pseudoscience to justify their socially damaging views; watch these films to see how science, by replacing ignorance with knowledge, can undo that damage.

James Bryce

To most people, nothing is more troublesome than the effort of thinking.

Jackie DeShannon

Ignorance is kind of bliss.

Izaak Walton

So long as thou are ignorant be not ashamed to learn. Ignorance is the greatest of all infirmities, and when justified, the chiefest of all follies.

Isaac Asimov

It was easy to cover up ignorance by the mystical word "intuition.

Isaac Asimov

When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.

Isaac Asimov

The false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.

Isaac Asimov

There are many aspects of the universe that still cannot be explained satisfactorily by science; but ignorance only implies ignorance that may someday be conquered. To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.

Isaac Asimov

Uncertainty that comes from knowledge (knowing what you don't know) is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.

Isaac Asimov

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.

Isaac Asimov

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of 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.

Inga Muscio

Women of color have no call to trust white women until white women take a gander at the world around them, investigate, learn and annihilate ignorance founded in being white in a society where the perspective and voice presented to the general public is white.

Inga Muscio

Without honoring Whores, we cannot truly understand and transcend the dynamics of violence, destruction and ignorance fostered in our cuntfearing society.

Leonardo da Vinci

Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!