Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Takei

The only thing worse than human ignorance is human pride in that ignorance.

George Porter

To solve a problem is to create new problems, new knowledge immediately reveals new areas of ignorance, and the need for new experiments. At least, in the field of fast reactions, the experiments do not take very long to perform.

Garth Stein

That which we manifest is before us; we are the creators of our own destiny. Be it through intention or ignorance, our successes and our failures have been brought on by none other than ourselves.

Frederick Douglass

Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.

Frederick Douglass

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, . . . neither persons nor property will be safe.

George Eliot

Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.

George Eliot

The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.

Federico Fellini

Don't tell me what I'm doing; I don't want to know.

Ezra Pound

There is natural ignorance and there is artificial ignorance. I should say at the present moment the artificial ignorance is about eighty-five per cent.

Eugenio Montale

I have been judged to be a pessimist but what abyss of ignorance and low egoism is not hidden in one who thinks that Man is the god of himself and that his future can only be triumphant?

Francis of Assisi

Where there is Love and Wisdom, there is neither Fear nor Ignorance. Where there is Patience and Humility, there is neither Anger nor Annoyance. Where there is Poverty and Joy, there is neither Cupidity nor Avarice. Where there is Peace and Contemplation, there is neither Care nor Restlessness. Where there is the Fear of God to guard the dwelling, there no enemy can enter. Where there is Mercy and Prudence, there is neither Excess nor Harshness.

Frances Wright

The knowledge of one generation is the ignorance of the next.

Erwin Schrodinger

In an honest search for knowledge, you quite often have to abide by ignorance for an indefinite period.

Florence King

The more immoral we become in big ways, the more puritanical we become in little ways.

Fidel Castro

The ever more sophisticated weapons piling up in the arsenals of the wealthiest and the mightiest can kill the illiterate, the ill, the poor and the hungry, but they cannot kill ignorance, illness, poverty or hunger.

Fidel Castro

The selection of a Republican candidate for the presidency of this globalized and expansive empire is - and I mean this seriously - the greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance that has ever been,

Fidel Castro

The greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance that has ever been.

Fernand Braudel

There are always some areas world history does not reach, zones of silence and undisturbed ignorance.

Henry Miller

I had learned to harness ignorance with presumption. I was ready to become an unacknowledged watercolorist.

Henri Barbusse

whatever our ignorance left to itself, and whatever the wounds that other human beings are, we ought to study ourselves with a sort of devotion.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Man never knows what he wants; he aspires to penetrate mysteries and as soon as he has, wants to re-establish them. Ignorance irritates him and knowledge cloys.

Henri Frederic Amiel

If ignorance and passion are the foes of popular morality, it must be confessed that moral indifference is the malady of the cultivated classes.

Helen Keller

Ignorance, poverty, and greed must disappear so that light can prevail in all places.

Helen Keller

There is a dangerous optimism of ignorance and indifference.

George Eliot

It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.

George Eliot

Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug, but when it prescribes pills it may happen to do more harm.

George Eliot

Ignorance ... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

George Eliot

All our ignorance brings us closer to death.

Heather McDonald

It's ignorance, and it's really not knowing what's out there,

Jaron Lanier

The cloud is driven by statistics, and even in the worst individual cases of personal ignorance, dullness, idleness, or irrelevance, every person is constantly feeding data into the cloud these days. The value of such information could be treated as genuine, but it is not. Instead, the blindness of our standards of accounting to all that value is gradually breaking capitalism.

Jane Rule

Knowledge is a collective enterprise. Without it understanding is impossible. Ignorance is too often a murderous vulnerability.

Euripides

Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.

Ernestine Rose

Ignorance is the evil - knowledge will be the remedy. Knowledge not of what sort of beings we shall be hereafter, or what is beyond the skies, but a knowledge pertaining to terra firma, and we may have all the power, goodness and love that we have been taught belongs to God himself.