Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sister Souljah

dead in the mind, meanin you're present but your ignorance only makes ur presense worse!

Sinclair Lewis

Except for half a dozen in each town the citizens are proud of that achievement of ignorance which is so easy to come by. To be 'intellectual' or 'artistic' or, in their own word, to be 'highbrow,' is to be priggish and of dubious virtue.

Rajneesh

Remain alert about your blindness, about your fear, about your ignorance, and just your alertness will dispel the whole darkness of blindness, of fear, of ignorance.

Socrates

Admitting one's ignorance is the first step in acquiring knowledge ...

Socrates

The true Wisdom is in recognizing our own ignorance.

Socrates

I know nothing but the certainty of my own ignorance.

Socrates

The bad one is that way because of the ignorance, therefore he can be healed with wisdom.

Socrates

He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge; and one only evil, namely, ignorance.

Socrates

Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he thinks that he knows something which he does not know, whereas I am quite conscious of my ignorance. At any rate it seems that I am wiser than he is to this small extent, that I do not think that I know what I do not know.

Socrates

There is but one evil, ignorance.

Socrates

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

Socrates

There are two kinds of disease of the soul, vice and ignorance.

Socrates

Awareness of ignorance is the beginning of wisdom.

Mercedes Lackey

Inexperience can be overcome, ignorance can be enlightened, but prejudice will destroy you.

Michael Moore

My mum taught me how to read before I went to kindergarden, I always thought that being able to read provided lightness, help to dispel darkness, ignorance and stupidity.

John Owen

Ignorance of God and of ourselves is the great principle and cause of all our disquietments; and, this ariseth mostly not from want of light and instruction, but for want of consideration and application.

Norm MacDonald

Ignorance is better than knowledge misapplied.

Miguel de Cervantes

Whoever is ignorant is vulgar.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Scientific literacy is an intellectual vaccine against the claims of charlatans who would exploit ignorance.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

As areas of knowledge grow, so too do the perimeters of ignorance.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Science literacy is a vaccine against the charlatans of the world that would exploit your ignorance.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Ignorance is a virus. Once it starts spreading, it can only be cured by reason. For the sake of humanity, we must be that cure.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Where ignorance lurks, so too do the frontiers of discovery and imagination

Neil deGrasse Tyson

... there is no shame in not knowing. The problem arises when irrational thought and attendant behavior fill the vacuum left by ignorance.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

God is an ever receding pocket of scientific ignorance.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.

Neil Gaiman

What a refreshing mind you have, young man. There really is nothing quite like total ignorance, is there?

John Muir

Yet how hard most people work for mere dust and ashes and care, taking no thought of growing in knowledge and grace, never having time to get in sight of their own ignorance.

John W. Gardner

Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all.

John Tillotson

Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind.

John Steinbeck

I wonder why it is that when I plan a route too carefully, it goes to pieces, whereas if I blunder along in blissful ignorance aimed in a fancied direction I get through with no trouble.

Ignorance is always ready to admire itself. Procure yourself critical friends.

Nicolas Chamfort

It is among uneducated women that we may look for the most confirmed gossips. Goethe tells us there is nothing more frightful than bustling ignorance.