Famous Quotes & Sayings

Herman Kahn

I'm against ignorance.

Herman Kahn

I'm against ignorance. I'm against sloppy, emotional thinking. I'm against fashionable thinking. I am against the whole cliché of the moment.

Herbert Spencer

Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.

Herbert Spencer

A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.

Herbert Beerbohm Tree

A whipper-snapper of criticism who quoted dead languages to hide his ignorance of life.

Henry David Thoreau

There is a chasm between knowledge and ignorance which the arches of science can never span.

Henry David Thoreau

The greatest and saddest defect is not credulity, but an habitual forgetfulness that our science is ignorance.

Henry David Thoreau

How can he remember well his ignorance - which his growth requires - who has so often to use his knowledge?

Henry David Thoreau

The savage lives simply through ignorance and idleness or laziness, but the philosopher lives simply through wisdom.

Henry David Thoreau

If it is necessary, omit one bridge over the river, go round a little there, and throw one arch at least over the darker gulf of ignorance which surrounds us.

Henry David Thoreau

The only sin in the world is ignorance.

Jeremy Bentham

Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.

Jean Toomer

The realization of ignorance is the first act of knowing.

Jean Vanier

Envy comes from people's ignorance of, or lack of belief in, their own gifts.

Jean de La Fontaine

Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.

Jeff Foxworthy

My whole career can be summed up with 'Ignorance is bliss.' When you do not know better, you do not really worry about failing.

James Buchan

There are about 15 million Muslims in the EU. They face ignorance, insult and even persecution. They cannot be wished away. To impose Enlightenment freedoms is self-defeating. Anyway, the Muslims have their own enlightenment.

James A. Garfield

I admitted, that the world had existed millions of years. I am astonished at the ignorance of the masses on these subjects. Hugh Miller has it right when he says that 'the battle of evidences must now be fought on the field of the natural sciences.'

James A. Garfield

Statistics has been the handmaid of science, and has poured a flood of light upon the dark questions of famine and pestilence, ignorance and crime, disease and death.

James A. Garfield

Now more than ever the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless, and corrupt, it is because the people tolerate ignorance, recklessness, and corruption.

James A. Baldwin

No one knows very much about the life of another. This ignorance becomes vivid, if you love another. Love sets the imagination on fire, and, also, eventually, chars the imagination into a harder element: imagination cannot match love, cannot plunge so deep, or range so wide.

James A. Baldwin

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

Jack Vance

Somebody else's ignorance is bliss.

Gary Snyder

I try to hold both history and wilderness in mind, that my poems may the true measure of things and stand against the unbalance and ignorance of our times.

Gary Snyder

As a poet I hold the most archaic values on earth . . . the fertility of the soil, the magic of animals, the power-vision in solitude, the terrifying initiation and rebirth, the love and ecstasy of the dance, the common work of the tribe. I try to hold both history and the wilderness in mind, that my poems may approach the true measure of things and stand against the unbalance and ignorance of our times.

Frederic Bastiat

We cannot but be astonished at the ease with which men resign themselves to ignorance about what is most important for them to know; and we may be certain that they are determined to remain invincibly ignorant if they once come to consider it as axiomatic that there are no absolute principles.

Franz Grillparzer

A cure by regression is homeopathic, like healing the damage done by ministers and ignorance with stupidity and Jesuits.

Jeff Lindsay

It was clear to me that it wouldn't matter what I did - they would never truly appreciate me or learn what I had to offer. They were far beyond fickle - they were insensible, like kittens,predatory little things, distracted by the first bit of string or shiny bauble that rolled across the floor, and nothing I could ever say or do could possibly make any kind of dent in their willful ignorance.

Jerry Uelsmann

It is the illusion of knowledge, not ignorance, that keeps one from growing.

Jermaine Jackson

You can't argue with stupidity.

Jeremy Taylor

It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it; and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it not.

Jeremy Taylor

To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.

Jeaniene Frost

Whoever said ignorance was bliss was shortsighted.