Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anna Julia Cooper

... so long as woman sat with bandaged eyes and manacled hands, fast bound in the clamps of ignorance and inaction, the world of thought moved in its orbit like the revolutions of the moon; with one face (the man's face) always out, so that the spectator could not distinguish whether it was disc or sphere.

Truth can be outraged by silence quite as cruelly as by speech.

Ambrose Bierce

Learning -the kind of ignorance affected by (and affecting) civilized races, as distinguished from ignorance, the sort of learning incurred by savages. See nonsense.

Ambrose Bierce

Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.

Anthony Hope

I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation.

Abraham Verghese

Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.

Allen Ginsberg

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.

Andrea Gibson

Your ignorance keeps dismembering every piece of patience I have left.

Andrea Dworkin

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.

Alphonse de Lamartine

Republicanism and ignorance are in bitter antagonism.

Vandana Shiva

The people who see the population explosion in the Malthusian way - as a geometric progression - forget that population growth is not a biological issue. People are not increasing in numbers out of stupidity and ignorance. Population growth is an ecological phenomenon linked very intimately to other issues, such as the usurpation of the resources which allow people to live.

Jane Austen

Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance in another, can hardly have much truth left.

Jane Austen

But to live in ignorance on such a point was impossible.

Jane Austen

She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance - a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To come with a well−informed mind is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others, which a sensible person would always wish to avoid. A woman especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

Jared Diamond

The past was still a Golden Age, of ignorance, while the present is an Iron Age of willful bliss.

Jane Yolen

Fish are not the best authority on water.

Jane Smiley

Ignorance is a self-generating state of mind; one of its characteristics is that it doesn't recognize itself as ignorance.

Jane Smiley

Ignorance and bloodlust have a long tradition in the United States, especially in the red states.

Bret Easton Ellis

She sits before me, sullen but hopeful, characterless, about to dissolve into tears. I squeeze her hand back, moved, no, touched by her ignorance of evil. She has one more test to pass. Do you own a briefcase?” I ask her, swallowing.

Booker T. Washington

Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.

Booker T. Washington

Never get to the point where you will be ashamed to ask anybody for information. The ignorant man will always be ignorant if he fears that by asking another for information he will display ignorance. Better once display your ignorance of a certain subject than always know nothing of it.

Booker T. Washington

We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.

Bodhidharma

Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.

Brigham Young

I have known a great many men who have left this Church for whom there is no chance whatever for exaltation, but if their blood had been spilled, it would have been better for them. The wickedness and ignorance of the nations forbid this principle's being in full force, but the time will come when the law of God will be in full force.

Barack Obama

When ignorant folks want to advertise their ignorance, you don't really have to do anything, you just let them talk.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Ignorance is degrading only when found in company with great riches.

Aristophanes

Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever

Elias Hicks

People talk about revelation, and say it has ceased; but what ignorance it bespeaks, when man knows not the least thing on earth without revelation.

Elif Safak

Knowledge that takes you, not beyond yourself is far worse than ignorance.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

A burning itch to know is higher than a solemn vow to pursue truth. To feel the burning itch of curiosity requires both that you be ignorant, and that you desire to relinquish your ignorance.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

To worship a sacred mystery was just to worship your own ignorance.

Bill Richardson

Ignorance has always been the weapon of tyrants; enlightenment the salvation of the free.

Edward Gibbon

His sumptuous tents, and those of his satraps, afforded an immense booty to the conqueror; and an incident is mentioned which proves the rustic but martial ignorance of the legions in the elegant superfluities of life. A bag of shining leather, filled with pearls, fell into the hands of a private soldier; he carefully preserved the bag, but he threw away its contents, judging that whatever was of no use could not possibly be of any value.