Ignorance

Quote link. Other quotes about: human Other quotes by Charles J. C. Lyall.: "There are four things that hold back human progress. Ignorance, stupidity, committees and accountants."
Quote link. Other quotes about: power people government Other quotes by James Madison.: "A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to Farce, or a Tragedy, or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance. and a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives."
Quote link. Other quotes about: earth truth hate Other quotes by John Masefield.: "There are few earthly things more beautiful than a university ... a place where those who hate ignorance may strive to know, where those who perceive truth may strive to make others see."
Quote link. Other quotes about: die live heaven Other quotes by Hyman Rickover.: "Be ever questioning. Ignorance is not bliss. It is oblivion. You don't go to heaven if you die dumb. Become better informed. Lean from others' mistakes. You could not live long enough to make them all yourself."
Quote link. Other quotes about: speech Other quotes by William Safire.: "Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy I don't know and I don't care."
Quote link. Other quotes about: sun Other quotes by Sankara.: "The spirit is smothered, as it were, by ignorance, but so soon as ignorance is destroyed, spirit shine forth, like the sun when released from clouds."
Quote link. Other quotes about: truth understand Other quotes by W. Clement Stone.: "Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance."
Quote link. Other quotes about: people understand Other quotes by Jeremy Taylor.: "It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance for it requires knowledge to perceive it and therefore he that can perceive it hath it not."
Quote link. Other quotes by Philo Vance.: "The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce intelligence."
Quote link. Other quotes about: find work something people man wise hard Other quotes by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr..: "Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way."
Quote link. Other quotes about: experience look Other quotes by Denis Watley.: "When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance. . . . Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turn down of the performer."
Quote link. Other quotes about: time Other quotes by Bill Watterson.: "Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous - Calvin"
Quote link. Other quotes by Izaak Walton.: "So long as thou are ignorant be not ashamed to learn. Ignorance is the greatest of all infirmities, and when justified, the chiefest of all follies."
Quote link. Other quotes about: think Other quotes by Paul Wiener.: "I like to think of my best moment on the job as quiet victories. Victories over what Over the system, over the various bureaucracies not watching me, over my colleagues' indifference, over my patron's ignorance, over the very concept of horn-blowing pride."
Quote link. Other quotes by Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde.: "There is so much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated it keeps us in touch with ignorance of the community."
Quote link. Other quotes by Anne Besant.: "Knowledge is essential to conquest only according to our ignorance are we helpless. Thought creates character. Character can dominate conditions. Will creates circumstances and environment."
Quote link. Other quotes about: power understand Other quotes by James Bridie.: "Boredom is a sign of satisfied ignorance, blunted apprehension, crass sympathies, dull understanding, feeble powers of attention, and irreclaimable weakness of character."
Quote link. Other quotes about: bad little Other quotes by Bob Edwards.: "A little learning is a dangerous thing but a lot of ignorance is just as bad."
Quote link. Other quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.: "Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in action."
Quote link. Other quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.: "Nothing is as terrible to see as ignorance in action."
Quote link. Other quotes by Sir Anthony Hawkins.: "Your ignorance, cramps my conversation."
Quote link. Other quotes about: democracy Other quotes by John F. Kennedy.: "The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all."
Quote link. Other quotes about: art history first never perfect Other quotes by Lytton Strachey.: "The history of the Victorian Age will never be written we know too much about it. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art."
Quote link. Other quotes about: believe sin forgiveness Other quotes by Adlai E. Jr. Stevenson.: "I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance."
Quote link. Other quotes by Isaac Asimov.: "If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them."
Quote link. Other quotes about: power never beauty Other quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson.: "Tell them dear, that if eyes were made for seeing,Then beauty is its own excuse for beingWhy thou wert there, O rival of the roseI never sought to ask, I never knewBut, in my simple ignorance supposeThe selfsame power that brought me there brought you."
Quote link. Other quotes about: nothing fact Other quotes by Socrates.: "I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance."
Quote link. Other quotes about: good evil Other quotes by Socrates.: "The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance."
Quote link. Other quotes about: good evil Other quotes by Socrates.: "There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance."
Quote link. Other quotes about: person Other quotes by George Eliot.: "The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance."
Quote link. Other quotes about: discover Other quotes by Daniel J. Boorstin.: "The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge."
Quote link. Other quotes about: nothing Other quotes by Johann von Goethe.: "There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action."
Quote link. Other quotes by Johann von Goethe.: "Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in action."
Quote link. Other quotes by Johann von Goethe.: "Nothing is as terrible to see as ignorance in action."
Quote link. Other quotes by Confucius.: "The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it not having it, to confess your ignorance."
Quote link. Other quotes by Confucius.: "Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance."
Quote link. Other quotes by Louis D. Brandeis.: "Behind every argument is someone's ignorance."
Quote link. Other quotes about: small world never nature game law rule Other quotes by Thomas Huxley.: "The chess board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, just, and patient. But we also know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance."
Quote link. Other quotes about: earth hard Other quotes by Mark Twain.: "His ignorance covered the whole earth like a blanket, and there was hardly a hole in it anywhere."
Quote link. Other quotes about: life success need Other quotes by Mark Twain.: "All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence then success is sure."
Quote link. Other quotes by Don Wood.: "Stupid is forever, ignorance can be fixed."
Quote link. Other quotes about: world sin Other quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr..: "Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and consciencious stupidity."
Quote link. Other quotes about: art silence Other quotes by Kahlil Gibran.: "I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art."
Quote link. Other quotes about: first never love Other quotes by Benjamin Disraeli.: "The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end."
Quote link. Other quotes about: never wisdom Other quotes by William Blake.: "Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with Ignorance."
Quote link. Other quotes by Laurence J. Peter.: "Against logic there is no armor like ignorance."
Quote link. Other quotes about: time man Other quotes by George Bernard Shaw.: "A learned man is an idler who kills time with study. Beware of his false knowledge it is more dangerous than ignorance."
Quote link. Other quotes about: world belief Other quotes by Richard Bach.: "The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly."
Quote link. Other quotes about: class person society Other quotes by Frederick Douglas.: "Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is in an organized conspiracy to opress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe."
Quote link. Other quotes by James Russell Lowell.: "It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence."
Quote link. Other quotes about: nature sin mind grow Other quotes by William Ellery Channing.: "Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance."
Quote link. Other quotes about: friendship friend friends Other quotes by Henry David Thoreau.: "True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance."
Quote link. Other quotes about: time man wise wisdom mind Other quotes by Henry David Thoreau.: "A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance. Observe how the greatest minds yield in some degree to the superstitions of their age."
Quote link. Other quotes about: wise Other quotes by Baltasar Gracian.: "Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance."
Quote link. Other quotes about: experience never Other quotes by Harold MacMillan.: "I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance."
Quote link. Other quotes about: thinking death friend think men good evil wise fear friends Other quotes by Logan Pearsall Smith.: "To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For anything that men can tell, death may be the greatest good that can happen to them but they fear it as if they knew quite well that it was the greatest of evils. And what is this but that shameful ignorance of thinking that we know what we do not know"
Quote link. Other quotes by Oscar Wilde.: "By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community."
Quote link. Other quotes by Anthony D'Angelo.: "Never let your persistence and passion turn into stubbornness and ignorance."
Quote link. Other quotes about: believe wisdom Other quotes by Thomas Carlyle.: "I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance."
Quote link. Other quotes about: hope art work reason human time men good children education child teach Other quotes by Clive Staples Lewis.: "What I want to fix your attention on is the vast overall movement towards the discrediting, and finally the elimination, of every kind of human excellence -- moral, cultural, social or intellectual. And is it not pretty to notice how 'democracy' (in the incantatory sense) is now doing for us the work that was once done by the most ancient dictatorships, and by the same methods The basic proposal of the new education is to be that dunces and idlers must not be made to feel inferior to intelligent and industrious pupils. That would be 'undemocratic.' Children who are fit to proceed may be artificially kept back, because the others would get a trauma by being left behind. The bright pupil thus remains democratically fettered to his own age group throughout his school career, and a boy who would be capable of tackling Aeschylus or Dante sits listening to his coeval's attempts to spell out A CAT SAT ON A MAT. We may reasonably hope for the virtual abolition of education when 'I'm as good as you' has fully had its way. All incentives to learn and all penalties for not learning will vanish. The few who might want to learn will be prevented who are they to overtop their fellows And anyway, the teachers -- or should I say nurses -- will be far too busy reassuring the dunces and patting them on the back to waste any time on real teaching. We shall no longer have to plan and toil to spread imperturbable conceit and incurable ignorance among men."
Quote link. Other quotes about: society Other quotes by Emma Goldman.: "The most violent element in society is ignorance."
Quote link. Other quotes about: happy never person Other quotes by Anatole France.: "A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance."
Quote link. Other quotes about: happiness never wise Other quotes by Thomas Gray.: "Yet ah why should they know their fateSince sorrow never comes too late,And happiness too swiftly flies.Thought would destroy their paradise.No more where ignorance is bliss,'Tis folly to be wise."
Quote link. Other quotes by Mignon McLaughlin.: "It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't."
Quote link. Other quotes by Elbert Hubbard.: "The recipe for perpetual ignorance is be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge."
Quote link. Other quotes by Robert G. Ingersoll.: "There is no slavery but ignorance."
Quote link. Other quotes about: science fact Other quotes by Hippocrates.: "There are in fact two things, science and opinion the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance."
Quote link. Other quotes about: never Other quotes by William Wirt.: "Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance."
Quote link. Other quotes about: technology science power understand Other quotes by Carl Sagan.: "We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces."
Quote link. Other quotes by Maya Angelou.: "Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives."
Quote link. Other quotes about: child Other quotes by William Hazlitt.: "Prejudice is the child of ignorance."
Quote link. Other quotes by Emerich Edward Dalbert.: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: education fact Other quotes by Henry Adams.: "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of facts."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man wise wisdom change mind Other quotes by Akhenaton.: "True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not he knoweth all things but his own ignorance."
Quote link. Other quotes about: child Other quotes by Akhenaton.: "The barb in the arrow of childhood suffering is this its intense loneliness, its intense ignorance."
Quote link. Other quotes about: world Other quotes by Baslo.: "Half of the world's misery comes from ignorance. The other half comes from intelligence."
Quote link. Other quotes about: need deep Other quotes by Saul Bellow.: "A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep."
Quote link. Other quotes about: think education Other quotes by Derek Curtis Bok.: "If you think education is expensive, try ignorance."
Quote link. Other quotes about: find work something people man wise hard Other quotes by Bokonon.: "Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way."
Quote link. Other quotes about: think little creative Other quotes by Lee C. Bollinger.: "Nurture an appetite for being puzzled, for being confused, indeed for being openly stupid, and that - despite what you may think - is very difficult...We all know the cliche' that a little knowledge can be a dangerous thing. It is also true that a lot of knowledge can be a dangerous thing as well...use your ignorance as well as your knowledge for creative means."
Quote link. Other quotes about: power believe man Other quotes by Henry Thomas Buckle.: "If you can impress any man with an absorbing conviction of the supreme importance of some moral or religious doctrine if you can make him believe that those who reject that doctrine are doomed to eternal perdition if you then give that man power, and by means of his ignorance blind him to the ulterior consequences of his own act,-he will infallibly persecute those who deny his doctrine."
Quote link. Other quotes about: science world time nature country Other quotes by Humphrey Davy.: "Fortunately science, like that nature to which it belongs, is neither limited by time nor by space. It belongs to the world, and is of no country and no age. The more we know, the more we feel our ignorance the more we feel how much remains unknown."
Quote link. Other quotes about: good evil Other quotes by Laertius Diogenes.: "He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge and one only evil, namely, ignorance."
Quote link. Other quotes about: discover Other quotes by Will Durant.: "Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."
Quote link. Other quotes by Abba Eban.: "His ignorance is encyclopedic."
Quote link. Other quotes about: history time people Other quotes by Gustave Flaubert.: "Our ignorance of history makes us libel to our own times. People have always been like this."
Quote link. Other quotes about: history time Other quotes by Gustave Flaubert.: "Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times."
Quote link. Other quotes about: never good Other quotes by Enrico Fermi.: "It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge."
Quote link. Other quotes about: talk value Other quotes by Jean de La Fontaine.: "Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value."
Quote link. Other quotes about: anger reason hate fear change belief making society Other quotes by G Gaia.: "The common dogma of fundamentalists is fear of modern knowledge, inability to cope with the fast change in a scientific-technological society, and the real breakdown in apparent moral order in recent years.... That is why hate is the major fuel, fear is the cement of the movement, and superstitious ignorance is the best defence against the dangerous new knowledge. ... When you bring up arguments that cast serious doubts on their cherished beliefs you are not simply making a rhetorical point, you are threatening their whole Universe and their immortality. That provokes anger and quite frequently violence. ... Unfortunately you cannot reason with them and you even risk violence in confronting them. Their numbers will decline only when society stabilizes, and adapts to modernity."
Quote link. Other quotes about: little Other quotes by Sacha Guitry.: "The little I know, I owe to my ignorance."
Quote link. Other quotes about: hard Other quotes by Heraclitus.: "It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine."
Quote link. Other quotes about: americans america Other quotes by Luther H. Hodges.: "If ignorance paid dividends, most Americans could make a fortune out of what they don't know about economics."
Quote link. Other quotes about: worse Other quotes by Saint Jerome.: "It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance."
Quote link. Other quotes about: bad Other quotes by Jean de la Bruyere.: "Discourtesy does not spring merely from one bad quality, but from several--from foolish vanity, from ignorance of what is due to others, from indolence, from stupidity, from distraction of thought, from contempt of others, from jealousy."
Quote link. Other quotes about: fear Other quotes by Titus Livius.: "We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them."

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