Quotes about ignorance
ignorance stupidity unknowing
Unknowing ignorance is preferable to informed stupidity. Brandon Sanderson
ignorance effort missing
Ignorance is hardly unusual, Miss Davar. The longer I live, the more I come to realize that it is the natural state of the human mind. There are many who will strive to defend its sanctity and then expect you to be impressed with their efforts.
ignorance discovery world
What is wrong is not the great discoveries of science—information is always better than ignorance, no matter what information or what ignorance. What is wrong is the belief behind the information, the belief that information will change the world. It won’t. Archibald MacLeish
ignorance simple parent
We disliked the rigours of existence, the unfulfilled longings, the enshrined injustices of the world, the labyrinths of love, the ignorance of parents, the fact of dying, and the amazing indifference of the Living in the midst of the simple beauties of the universe. We feared the heartlessness of human beings, all of whom are born blind, few of whom ever learn to see. Ben Okri
ignorance air-balloons hot
When moral superiority combines with billowing ignorance, they fill up a hot-air balloon that's awfully hard not to poke. Barbara Kingsolver
ignorance men thinking
Men are mistaken in thinking themselves free; their opinion is made up of consciousness of their own actions, and ignorance of the causes by which they are determined. Baruch Spinoza
ignorance superstitions latter
I make this chief distinction between religion and superstition, that the latter is founded on ignorance, the former on knowledge.
ignorance pride self
The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
ignorance maturity profound
That's maturity-when you realize that you've finally arrived at a state of ignorance as profound as your parents. Barbara Mertz
ignorance play irony
A play is made by sensing how the forces in life simulate ignorance-you set free the concealed irony, the deadly joke. Arthur Miller
ignorance ignorant-masses numbers
Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything. Sydney Smith
ignorance men firsts
The things best to know are first principles and causes, but these things are perhaps the most difficult for men to grasp, for they are farthest removed from the senses ... Aristotle
ignorance simple source
There is simple ignorance, which is the source of lighter offenses, and double ignorance, which is accompanied by a conceit of wisdom.
ignorance evil
There is only one good, that is knowledge; there is only one evil, that is ignorance.
ignorance men self
It belongs to small-mindedness to be unable to bear either honor or dishonor, either good fortune or bad, but to be filled with conceit when honored and puffed up by trifling good fortune, and to be unable to bear even the smallest dishonor and to deem any chance failure a great misfortune, and to be distressed and annonyed at everything. Moreover the small-minded man is the sort of person to call all slights an insult and dishonor, even those that are due to ignorance or forgetfulness. Small-mindedness is accompanied by pettiness, querulousness, pessimism and self-abasement.
ignorance men errors
Every wicked man is in ignorance as to what he ought to do, and from what to abstain, and it is because of error such as this that men become unjust and, in a word, wicked.
ignorance science men
I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man's life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder of truth. Ben Jonson
ignorance past house
How frail and ephemeral is the material substance of letters, which makes their very survival so hazardous. Print has a permanence of its own, though it may not be much worth preserving, but a letter! Conveyed by uncertain transportation, over which the sender has no control; committed to a single individual who may be careless or inappreciative; left to the mercy of future generations, of families maybe anxious to suppress the past, of the accidents of removals and house-cleanings, or of mere ignorance. How often it has been by the veriest chance that they have survived at all. Elizabeth Drew
ignorance justice religion
In her present ignorance, woman's religion, instead of making her noble and free, by the wrong application of great principles ofright and justice, has made her bondage but more certain and lasting, her degradation more hopeless and complete. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
ignorance doubt
Doubt is really a groping ignorance. Eliphas Levi
ignorance pride scotland
I perceive two things in Scotland of the most fearful omen: ignorance of theological truth, and a readiness to pride themselves in and boast of it. Edward Irving
ignorance character pride
The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance. Samuel Butler
ignorance poverty wealth
No wealth like education and no poverty like ignorance
ignorance unawareness intellect
There is no capital more useful than intellect and wisdom, and there is no indigence more injurious than ignorance and unawareness.
ignorance wealth-of-knowledge support
There is no greater wealth than wisdom, no greater poverty than ignorance; no greater heritage than culture and no greater support than consultation.
ignorance prejudice stubborn
Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard. Adlai E. Stevenson
ignorance men brotherhood-of-man
On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.
ignorance thinking government
How fortunate for governments that people do not think. There is no thinking except in giving and executing commands. If it were otherwise human society could not exist. Adolf Hitler
ignorance tasks lions
Mostly I make lists for projects. This can be daunting. Breaking something big into its constituent parts will help you organize your thoughts, but it can also force you to confront the depth of your ignorance and the hugeness of the task. That's OK. The project may be the lion, but the list is your whip. Adam Savage
ignorance grew proportion
Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion. Abraham Verghese
ignorance giving long
Be careful, you are not in Wonderland. I've heard the strange madness long growing in your soul. But you are fortunate in your ignorance, in your isolation. You who have suffered, find where love hides. Give, share, lose—lest we die, unbloomed. Allen Ginsberg
ignorance pieces left
Your ignorance keeps dismembering every piece of patience I have left. Andrea Gibson
ignorance self able
Truth is harder to bear than ignorance, and so ignorance is valued more--also because the status quo depends on it; but love depends on self-knowledge and self-knowledge depends on being able to bear the truth. Andrea Dworkin