Quotes about ignorance
ignorance imagine judgment
Whoever will imagine a perpetual confession of ignorance, a judgment without leaning or inclination, on any occasion whatever, hasa conception of Pyrrhonism. Michel de Montaigne
ignorance miracle agnostic
Miracles arise from our ignorance of nature, not from nature itself.
ignorance america patterns
We took advantage of [the Indians'] ignorance and inexperience to incline them the more easily toward treachery, lewdness, avarice, and every sort of inhumanity and cruelty, after the example and pattern of our ways.
ignorance long ignorant
What am I to choose? "Choose what you please, as long as you choose." There you have a foolish answer, which seems to be the outcome, however, of all Dogmatism, which will not allow us to be ignorant of that which we are ignorant.
ignorance agency criticism
Most criticism of advertising is written in ignorance of what actually happens inside these agencies. Michael Schudson
ignorance honor study
If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could to-day. Mark Twain
ignorance world bliss
If ignorance is bliss, why isn't the world happier?
ignorance years world
In a thousand years time this day will have existed for a thousand years to the day. And the ignorance of the whole world about what they've said today will have a date too. Marguerite Duras
ignorance pride cowardice
On the whole, however, it is only out of pride or gross ignorance, or cowardice, that we refuse to see in the present the lineaments of times to come. Marguerite Yourcenar
ignorance thinking favorites-things
Ignorance is my least favorite thing. I really think it's at the core of all our problems. Naomi Judd
ignorance energy crisis
There is no energy crisis, only a crisis of ignorance. R. Buckminster Fuller
ignorance ignorant matter
Better to be ignorant of a matter than half know it. Publilius Syrus
ignorance riches wealth
And his best riches, ignorance of wealth. Oliver Goldsmith
ignorance
Prudery is ignorance.
ignorance stupidity badges
Paltry affectation, strained allusions, and disgusting finery are easily attained by those who choose to wear them; they are but too frequently the badges of ignorance or of stupidity, whenever it would endeavor to please.
ignorance dark thinking
I was unfair to him, of course, but where would I have been without unfairness? In thrall, in harness. Young women need unfairness, it's one of their few defenses. They need their callousness, they need their ignorance. They walk in the dark, along the edges of high cliffs, humming to themselves, thinking themselves invulnerable. Margaret Atwood
ignorance poetry dignity
A lot of being a poet consists of willed ignorance. If you woke up from your trance and realized the nature of the life-threatening and dignity-destroying precipice you were walking along, you would switch into actuarial sciences immediately.
ignorance handmaids-tale handmaids
Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.
ignorance men perplexed
Through ignorance of what is good and what is bad, the life of men is greatly perplexed. Marcus Tullius Cicero
ignorance astonishment causes
In extraordinary events ignorance of their causes produces astonishment.
ignorance matter ashamed
Nor am I ashamed, as some are, to confess my ignorance of those matters with which I am unacquainted.
ignorance evil approach
Ignorance of impending evil is far better than a knowledge of its approach.
ignorance men gains
No man should so act as to make a gain out of the ignorance of another.
ignorance ignorant should
...one should be gentle with the ignorant, for they are the chosen of God.
ignorance ignorant ignorant-person
We never knew an ignorant person yet but was prejudiced.
ignorance ignorant twins
...ignorant as the unborne babe! ignorant as unborn twins!
ignorance thinking ignorant
The ignorant are afraid to betray surprise or admiration...they think it ill manners.
ignorance men hands
Nothing is so ignorant as a man's left hand, except a lady's watch.
ignorance too-much trouble
The trouble with most of us is that we know too much that ain't so.
ignorance religion atheism
Ignorance is not not knowin' - Ignorance is knowin' what ain't so.
ignorance men knowledge-and-ignorance
I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have so much of it.
ignorance knowing not-knowing
Ignorance is not, not knowing something. It is knowing what isn't so.
ignorance eye mislead-us
Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes! Leonardo da Vinci