Quotes about ignorance
ignorance knowledge science
The origin of all science is the desire to know causes, and the origin of all false science is the desire to accept false causes rather than none; or, which is the same thing, in the unwillingness to acknowledge our own ignorance. William Hazlitt
ignorance conversation former
There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund of conversation.
ignorance evil world
The ignorance of the world leaves one at the mercy of its malice.
ignorance proportion insolence
The insolence of the vulgar is in proportion to their ignorance. They treat everything with contempt which they do not understand.
ignorance mind prejudice
Vulgar prejudices are those which arise out of accident, ignorance, or authority; natural prejudices are those which arise out of the constitution of the human mind itself.
ignorance may remember
Be thorough in all you do; and remember that although ignorance often may be innocent, pretension is always despicable. William E. Gladstone
ignorance character oil
This curious faith is predicated on the notion that we will soon develop unlimited new sources of energy: domestic oil fields, shale oil, gasified coal, nuclear power, solar energy, and so on. This is fantastical because the basic cause of the energy crisis is not scarcity: it is moral ignorance and weakness of character. We don't know how to use energy or what to use it for. And we cannot restrain ourselves. Our time is characterized as much by the abuse and waste of human energy as it is by the abuse and waste of fossil fuel energy. Wendell Berry
ignorance men praise
Praise ignorance, for what man has not encountered he has not destroyed.
ignorance order years
The general impression is that fifteen year-old Dolly remains morbidly uninterested in sexual matters, or to be exact, represses her curiosity in order to save her ignorance and self-dignity. Vladimir Nabokov
ignorance greatness jazz
Jazz music celebrates life! Human life; the range of it, the absurdity of it, the ignorance of it, the greatness of it, the intelligence of it, the sexuality of it, the profundity of it. And it deals with it. In all of its... It deals with it! Wynton Marsalis
ignorance diagnosis beats
To confess ignorance is often wiser than to beat about the bush with a hypothetical diagnosis. William Osler
ignorance humility pride
Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire. William Penn