Quotes about ignorance
ignorance damage doe
It's not ignorance does so much damage; it's knowin' so derned much that ain't so. Josh Billings
ignorance stupidity unconscious
Stupidity,--unconscious ignorance.
ignorance stuff
Ignorance ain't not knowin' stuff; ignorance is knowin' stuff that AIN'T TRUE.
ignorance nurse prejudice
Ignorance is the wet-nurse of prejudice.
ignorance reflection arrogance
True wisdom is plenty of experience, observation, and reflection. False wisdom is plenty of ignorance, arrogance, and impudence.
ignorance depth illusion
An illusion of depth often occurs if a blockhead is a muddlehead at the same time Karl Kraus
ignorance years trying
We've tried ignorance for a thousand years. It's time we try education. Joycelyn Elders
ignorance world
The world never leaves one in ignorance or in peace. Ouida
ignorance upper-class gone
Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. Oscar Wilde
ignorance caring keys
Three key humanist virtues are courage, cognition, and caring - not dependence, ignorance, or insensitivity to the needs of others. Paul Kurtz
ignorance reality perception
Travelers perceptions do not always reflect the reality of a situation, and ignorance is costing the industry billions. Paul Dowling
ignorance knowledge-and-power evil
Is there anything science should not try to explain? Science is knowledge and knowledge is power - power to do good or evil. Sometimes ignorance is bliss. Paul Davies
ignorance causes apathy
When an individual fear or apathy would cause us to pass by the unfortunate, then life is of no account.
ignorance history literature
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. Gustave Flaubert
ignorance fighting enemy
To fight an enemy properly, you have to know what they are. Ignorance is defeat. Greg Bear
ignorance office personality
Arrogance, ignorance, and incompetence. Not a pretty cocktail of personality traits in the best of situations. No sirree. Not a pretty cocktail in an office-mate and not a pretty cocktail in a head of state. In fact, in a leader, it's a lethal cocktail. Graydon Carter
ignorance poetic dramatic
There is a certain poetic value, and that a genuine one, in this sense of having missed the full meaning of things. There is beauty, not only in wisdom, but in this dazed and dramatic ignorance. Gilbert K. Chesterton
ignorance i-hate-you boredom
There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
ignorance understanding weak
Nothing convinces persons of a weak understanding so effectually, as what they do not comprehend. Lord Chesterfield
ignorance simple two
There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion. Lord Acton
ignorance pride evil
The major threats to our survival no longer stem from nature without but from our own human nature within. It is our carelessness, our hostilities, our selfishness and pride and willful ignorance that endanger the world. M. Scott Peck
ignorance eye light
Science . . . has opened our eyes to the vastness of the universe and given us light, truth and freedom from fear where once was darkness, ignorance and superstition. There is no personal salvation, except through science. Luther Burbank
ignorance eye california
A lot of the public responses are based on the prejudices and ignorance, they've been inherited from previous generations. California has always been a multicultural state, but the thing is, you've got to open your eyes and people in general need to get over their own prejudices. Luis Valdez
ignorance people different
Uncertainty and fear and ignorance about immigrants, about people who are different, has a history as old as our Nation. Luis Gutierrez
ignorance two light
At my back I hear the word-"homosexual"-and it seems to split my world in two.... It is ignorance, our ignorance of one another, that creates this terrifying erotic chaos. Information, a crumb of information, seems to light the world. John Cheever
ignorance thinking people
It is only out of ignorance that people are cruel, because they really don't think it will come back. Maya Angelou
ignorance opposites agony
Accumulation of wealth at one pole is at the same time accumulation of misery, agony of toil, slavery, ignorance, brutality, mental degradation, at the opposite pole Karl Marx
ignorance human-nature reason
The reason that history so often repeats is not only human nature, but also human ignorance. Glenn Beck
ignorance eye mislead-us
Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes! Leonardo da Vinci
ignorance problem
Fear tends to come from ignorance. Once I knew what the problem was, it was just a problem, nothing to fear. Patrick Rothfuss
ignorance knowing enlightenment
Knowing your own ignorance is the first step to enlightenment.
ignorance neglect rulers
We have reached the point where ignorance and neglect are the best we can hope for in a ruler. Lev Grossman
ignorance way young
But ignorance is happiness,When young Hope is to show the way Letitia Elizabeth Landon