Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Henry Lewes

Roger Bacon expressed a feeling which afterwards moved many minds, when he said that if he had the power he would burn all the works of the Stagirite, since the study of them was not simply loss of time, but multiplication of ignorance. Yet in spite of this outbreak every page is studded with citations from Aristotle, of whom he everywhere speaks in the highest admiration.

Guru Nanak

Owing to ignorance of the rope the rope appears to be a snake; owing to ignorance of the Self the transient state arises of the individualized, limited, phenomenal aspect of the Self.

Greg Mortenson

You have to attack the source of your enemy’s strength. In America’s case, that’s not Osama or Saddam or anyone else. The enemy is ignorance. The only way to defeat it is to build relationships with those people, to draw them into the modern world with education and business. Otherwise the fight will go on forever.

Jim Butcher

Ignorance is more than bliss, it's freaking orgasmic ecstacy!

Jim Butcher

Fear is bred from ignorance. So knowledge is a weapon against it, and reason is the tool of knowledge.

H. P. Lovecraft

It is an unfortunate fact that every man who seeks to disseminate knowledge must contend not only against ignorance itself, but against false instruction as well. No sooner do we deem ourselves free from a particularly gross superstition, than we are confronted by some enemy to learning who would set aside all the intellectual progress of years, and plunge us back into the darkness of mediaeval disbelief.

H. P. Lovecraft

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of the infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.

H. G. Wells

Everywhere in the world there are ignorance and prejudice, but the greatest complex of these, with the most extensive prestige and the most intimate entanglement with traditional institutions, is the Roman Catholic Church.

Jean de la Bruyere

Profound ignorance makes a man dogmatical.

Jean de la Bruyere

Incivility is not a Vice of the Soul, but the effect of several Vices; of Vanity, Ignorance of Duty, Laziness, Stupidity, Distraction, Contempt of others, and Jealousy.

Jean Baudrillard

The opposite of knowledge is not ignorance, but deceit and fraud.

Karl Marx

Accumulation of wealth at one pole is at the same time accumulation of misery, agony of toil, slavery, ignorance, brutality, mental degradation, at the opposite pole

Joseph Smith, Jr.

We cannot be saved until we have risen above all our enemies, not the least of which is ignorance.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Science is the most reliable guide for civilization, for life, for success in the world. Searching a guide other than the science is meaning carelessness, ignorance and heresy.

Murray Rothbard

It is no crime to be ignorant of economics, which is, after all, a specialized discipline and one that most people consider to be a ‘dismal science.’ But it is totally irresponsible to have a loud and vociferous opinion on economic subjects while remaining in this state of ignorance.

Molly Ivins

This is the man (Ronald Reagan) who proved that ignorance is no handicap to the presidency

J. K. Rowling

Imperfect understanding is often more dangerous than ignorance.

Ivan Pavlov

Never think that you already know all. However highly you are appraised, always have the courage to say to yourself-I am ignorant.

H. G. Wells

Ignorance is not an extension of time

H. L. Mencken

To argue that the gaps in knowledge which confront the seeker must be filled, not by patient inquiry, but by intuition or revelation, is simply to give ignorance a gratuitous and preposterous dignity.

Grant Bowler

The truth that I know for sure is that I may have an opinion, but I do not know the truth, and the other thing I know for sure is that certainty is the root of all ignorance and the root of all evil.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Nothing puts a greater obstacle in the way of the progress of knowledge than thinking that one knows what one does not yet know.

Gary Hamel

If customer ignorance is a profit centre for you, you're in trouble.

Friedrich Nietzsche

O sancta simplicitas! What strange simplification and falsification mankind lives on! One can never cease to marvel once one has acquired eyes for this marvel! How we have made everything around us bright and free and easy and simple! How we have known how to bestow on our senses a passport to everything superficial, on our thoughts a divine desire for wanton gambling and false conclusions! - how we have from the very beginning understood how to retain our ignorance so as to enjoy an almost inconceivable freedom, frivolity, impetuosity, bravery, cheerfulness of life, so as to enjoy life!

Jean Henri Fabre

Without feeling abashed by my ignorance, I confess that I am absolutely unable to say. In the absence of an appearance of learning, my answer has at least one merit, that of perfect sincerity.

Giacomo Leopardi

Ignorance is the greatest source of happiness.

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Female gossips are generally actuated by active ignorance.

Ian Hacking

Probability fractions arise from our knowledge and from our ignorance.