Quotes about ignorance
ignorance privilege cost
The privileges of knowledge have to be bought at the cost of the consolations of ignorance. John Fowles
ignorance errors doe
A common error of ignorance is to maintain that what one does not know does not exist. Leon Battista Alberti
ignorance may assuming
You may assume infinite ignorance and unlimited intelligence. Leo Szilard
ignorance men effort
All men's instincts, all their impulses in life, are efforts to increase their freedom. Wealth and poverty, health and disease, culture and ignorance, labor and leisure, repletion and hunger, virtue and vice, are all terms for greater or less degree of freedom. Leo Tolstoy
ignorance knowledge men
The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.
ignorance overcoming purpose
The purpose of education is not to validate ignorance but to overcome it Lawrence M. Krauss
ignorance historical looks
Backward is just not a natural direction for Americans to look - historical ignorance remains a national characteristic. Larry McMurtry
ignorance government gentleman
The gentlemen who wrote the Constitution were as suspicious of efficient government as they were wary of democracy, a "turbulence and a folly" that was associated with the unruly ignorance of an urban mob. Lewis H. Lapham
ignorance circles may
Who can tell whether the parallelogram, which in our ignorance we have defined and drawn, and the whole of whose properties we profess to know, may not be all the while panting for exterior angles, sympathetic with the interior, or sullenly repining at the fact that it cannot be inscribed in a circle? Lewis Carroll
ignorance mean law
The laws of nature are only as immutable as the minds which promote them. Ignorance of the law is 9/10ths of the law. Just because you aren't paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you. Joseph Heller
ignorance complacency doe
Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon, but to our ignorance and complacency coming to an end. Joseph Campbell
ignorance love-is heaven
The world, as we know it, is coming to an end. The world as the center of the universe, the world divided from the heavens, the world bound by horizons in which love is reserved for members of the in-group: that is the world that is passing away. Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon but to the fact that our ignorance and complacency are coming to an end.
ignorance knowledge learning
Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite. Karl Popper
ignorance insecure safe
We know a great deal, but our ignorance is sobering and boundless. With each step forward, with each problem which we solve, we not only discover new and unsolved problems, but we also discover that where we believed that we were standing on firm and safe ground, all things are, in truth, insecure and in a state of flux.
ignorance littles infinite
While differing widely in the various little bits we know, in our infinite ignorance we are all equal.
ignorance knowledge world
The more we learn about the world, and the deeper our learning, the more conscious, specific, and articulate will be our knowledge of what we do not know, our knowledge of our ignorance
ignorance pride simple
Ignorance is not a simple lack of knowledge but an active aversion to knowledge, the refusal to know, issuing from cowardice, pride, or laziness of mind.
ignorance paradise-on-earth absence
True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.
ignorance companion constant
Ignorance and confidence are constant companions John McAfee
ignorance dark skills
The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future. John Maynard Keynes
ignorance foxes blind
It is a blind goose that cometh to the fox's sermon. John Lyly
ignorance empty-vessels sound
The empty vessel giveth a greater sound than the full barrel.
ignorance veils rising
The veil is slowly rising, but as regards innumerable questions we must be content to remain in ignorance. John Lubbock
ignorance use wonder
Though the familiar use of things about us take off our wonder, yet it cures not our ignorance. John Locke
ignorance men knowing
A man may live long, and die at last in ignorance of many truths, which his mind was capable of knowing, and that with certainty.
ignorance knowledge long
Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied words with little or no meaning have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of speculation, that it will not be easy to persuade either those who speak or those who hear them, that they are but the covers of ignorance and hindrance of true knowledge.
ignorance innocence virtue
The innocence which is simply ignorance is not virtue. John Lancaster Spalding
ignorance experts world
When the world is destroyed, it will be destroyed not by its madmen but by the sanity of its experts and the superior ignorance of its bureaucrats. John le Carre
ignorance empathy sloppiness
Is it ignorance or apathy? Hey, I don't know and I don't care. Jimmy Buffett
ignorance persistence
Ignorance is not bad faith. But persistence in ignorance is. Joanna Russ
ignorance arrogance kind
The worst kind of arrogance is arrogance from ignorance. Jim Rohn
ignorance knowledge tragedy
Ignorance is not bliss. Ignorance is poverty. Ignorance is devastation. Ignorance is tragedy. And ignorance is illness. It all stems from ignorance.
ignorance race enemy
No particular race is the enemy. Ignorance is the enemy. George Lopez