Famous Quotes & Sayings

Oscar Wilde

I do not approve of anything which tampers with natural ignorance

Oscar Wilde

Public Opinion... an attempt to organize the ignorance of the community, and to elevate it to the dignity of physical force.

Louis L'Amour

The more one learns, the more he understands his ignorance.

Louis L'Amour

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

Lorraine Hansberry

There may be women to emerge who will be able to formulate a new and possible concept that homosexual persecution and condemnation has at its roots not only social ignorance, but a philosophically active anti-feminist dogma.

Michael Jackson

Love transcends international boundaries. It heals the wounds of racial hatred, prejudice, bigotry and ignorance.

Michael Jackson

Prejudice is ignorance.

Mark Twain

...one should be gentle with the ignorant, for they are the chosen of God.

Mark Twain

We never knew an ignorant person yet but was prejudiced.

Mark Twain

...ignorant as the unborne babe! ignorant as unborn twins!

Mark Twain

The ignorant are afraid to betray surprise or admiration...they think it ill manners.

Mark Twain

Nothing is so ignorant as a man's left hand, except a lady's watch.

Mark Twain

The trouble with most of us is that we know too much that ain't so.

Mark Twain

Ignorance is not not knowin' - Ignorance is knowin' what ain't so.

Mark Twain

I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have so much of it.

Mark Twain

Ignorance is not, not knowing something. It is knowing what isn't so.

Mary Roach

In my experience, the most staunchly held views are based on ignorance or accepted dogma, not carefully considered accumulations of facts. The more you expose the intricacies and realtities of the situation, the less clear-cut things become.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

Knowledge is leagued with the universe, and findeth a friend in all things; but ignorance is everywhere a stranger, unwelcome; ill at ease and out of place.

Noam Chomsky

Education is imposed ignorance.

Mark Twain

Few things are more irritating than when someone who is wrong is also very effective in making his point.

Mark Twain

Ignorance, intolerance, egotism, self-assertion, opaque perception, dense and pitiful chuckle headedness - and an almost pathetic unconsciousness of it all, that is what I was at nineteen and twenty.

Mark Twain

Never put off until tomorrow what you can avoid altogether. A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer. All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

Patton Oswalt

So when you spot violence, or bigotry, or intolerance or fear or just garden-variety misogyny, hatred or ignorance, just look it in the eye and think, 'The good outnumber you, and we always will.'

Patanjali

The way to eliminate ignorance is through steady, focused discrimination between the observer and the world.

P. T. Barnum

No man ever went broke overestimating the ignorance of the American public.

Ovid

What is hid is unknown: for what is unknown there is no desire. [Lat., Quod latet ignotum est; ignoti nulla cupido.]

Ovid

What ignorance there is in human minds.

Paul Elmer More

We are born knowing nothing and with much striving we learn but a little; yet all the while we are bound by laws that hearken to no plea of ignorance, and measure out their rewards and punishments with calm indifference. In such a state, humility is the virtue of men, and their only defense; to walk humbly with God, never doubting, whatever befall, that His will is good, and that His law is right.

Masanobu Fukuoka

Ignorance, hatred and greed are killing nature.

Mary Wortley Montagu

There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life.

Mary Wollstonecraft

There must be more equality established in society, or morality will never gain ground, and this virtuous equakity will not rest firmly even when founded on a rock, if one half of mankind be chained to its bottom by fate, for they will be continually undermining it through ignorance or pride

Marshall McLuhan

The ignorance of how to use knowledge stockpiles exponentially.

Maria Monk

All around me insisted that my doubts proved only my own ignorance and sinfulness; that they knew by experience they would soon give place to true knowledge, and an advance in religion; and I felt something like indecision.