Famous Quotes & Sayings

B. F. Skinner

...not everyone is willing to defend a position of 'not knowing.' There is no virtue in ignorance for its own sake.

Bernie Taupin

I am a simple vessel with complex overtones, opinionated on occasions but willing to listen. Comfortable with reclusiveness and devoted to privacy and family. Patriotic to a fault and allergic to cruelty, ignorance and bad music.

Bernard Berenson

Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

Tryon Edwards

Mystery is another name for our ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain

Benjamin Franklin

...It is in the religion of ignorance that tyranny begins...

Bob Hope

Your ignorance cramps my conversation

Black Elk

Any man who is attached to things of this world is one who lives in ignorance and is being consumed by the snakes of his own passions

Bennett Cerf

Gross ignorance is 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance.

Benny Hinn

The Devil's success is contingent upon people's ignorance.

Benjamin Tucker

And capital punishment, however ineffective it may be and through whatever ignorance it may be resorted to, is a strictly defensive act, - at least in theory.

We receive the truths of science by compulsion. Nothing but ignorance is able to resist them.

Charlie Pierce

If religion comes into the public square, it is as vulnerable as any other human institution to be pelted with produce. Ignorance does not become wisdom just because you gussy it up with the Gospels.

Carl Jung

At present we educate people only up to the point where they can earn a living and marry; then education ceases altogether, as though a complete mental outfit had been acquired. ... Vast numbers of men and women thus spend their entire lives in complete ignorance of the most important things.

Paul Dowling

Travelers' perceptions do not always reflect the reality of a situation, and ignorance is costing the industry billions.

Robert Kiyosaki

The main cause of poverty is self-inflicted fear and ignorance.

Petrarch

How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.

Whether it's out of laziness or ignorance, consumers' starting point is very much search.

Bertrand Russell

Science tells us what we can know but what we can know is little and if we forget how much we cannot know we become insensitive of many things of very great importance. Theology, on the other hand induces a dogmatic belief that we have knowledge where in fact we have ignorance and by doing so generates a kind of impertinent insolence towards the universe. Uncertainty in the presence of vivid hopes and fears is painful, but must be endured if we wish to live without the support of comforting fairy tales.

Bertrand Russell

Mystery is delightful, but unscientific, since it depends upon ignorance.

Bertrand Russell

The dictum that human nature cannot be changed is one of those tiresome platitudes that conceal from the ignorant the depths of their own ignorance.

Mahatma Gandhi

To conceal ignorance is to increase it. An honest confession of it, however, gives ground for the hope that it will diminish some day or the other.

James Madison

Ecclesiastical establishments tend to great ignorance and corruption

James Madison

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance.

John Milton

Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be sin to know, Can it be death? And do they only stand By ignorance? Is that their happy state, The proof of their obedience and their faith? O fair foundation laid whereon to build Their ruin!

John Denham

Tis the most certain sign, the world's accurst That the best things corrupted, are the worst; 'Twas the corrupted Light of knowledge, hurl'd Sin, Death, and Ignorance o'er all the world; That Sun like this (from which our sight we have) Gaz'd on too long, resumes the light he gave.

John Calvin

Faith consists, not in ignorance, but in knowledge, and that, not only of God, but also of the divine will.

John B. S. Haldane

The idea of protoplasm, which was really a name for our ignorance, [is] only a little less misleading than the expression "Vital force".

John B. S. Haldane

It was a reaction from the old idea of "protoplasm", a name which was a mere repository of ignorance.

Jimmy Sangster

There's a great difference between knowing that a thing is so, and knowing how to use that knowledge for the good of mankind. Thetrouble with a scientist is we quickly tire of our discoveries. We hand them over to people who are not ready for them, while we go off again into the darkness of ignorance, searching for other discoveries, which will be mishandled in just the same way when the time comes.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Taste is a matter of ignorance. If you know what you are tasting, you don't have to taste.

Frank A. Clark

The reason there's so much ignorance is that those who have it are so eager to share it.

Edward Teller

There is no case where ignorance should be preferred to knowledge - especially if the knowledge is terrible.

Edward de Bono

In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better.