Ignorance Quotes · Page 107

Pride is not the heritage of man; humility should dwell with frailty, and atone for ignorance, error, and imperfection.

— Albert Pike

“I have my own theory: ignorance is bliss. The less you know, the more confident you can be in tackling things.”

— Stephen Richards

“Just an emotional response of sentiments will only lead to tiredness and weariness.”

— Sunday Adelaja

The dumbing down of America is evident in the slow decay of substantive content, a kind of celebration of ignorance.

— Carl Sagan

Don't let anyone's ignorance, hate, drama or negativity stop you from being the best person you can be.

— Marc K

It is astonishing what you can do when you have a lot of energy, ambition and plenty of ignorance.

— Alfred P. Sloan

“There comes a moment in history when ignorance is no longer a forgivable offense…a moment when only wisdom has the power to…

— Dan Brown

Folly disgusts us less by her ignorance than pedantry by her learning.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Everyone has a responsibility to not only tolerate another person's point of view, but also to accept it eagerly as a challenge…

— Arlo Guthrie

The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are blindly adopted; the second wilfully preferred.

— George Bancroft

Probability is not a mere computation of odds on the dice or more complicated variants; it is the acceptance of the lack…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

There's a road to hell that is paved with good intentions but it's a long route. The quicker path is paved with…

— Mark Lawrence

The moth unwitting rushes on the fire, Through ignorance the fish devours the bait, We men know well the foes that lie…

— Bhartrhari

On the whole, however, it is only out of pride or gross ignorance, or cowardice, that we refuse to see in the…

— Marguerite Yourcenar

Ignorance of ignorance, then, is that self-satisfied state of unawareness in which man, knowing nothing outside the limited area of his physical…

— Manly Hall

“Life has ways of getting under your skin, spoiling your fun with too much information. Youth is truly the happiest time where…

— Mark Lawrence

“The body is doing the action, body’s spare-parts are doing the action, and the egoism simply does the egoism of, ‘I did’!…

— Dada Bhagwan

More and more people are beginning to feel that there must be another way of thinking, perceiving, and acting. And perhaps the…

— Gerald Jampolsky

“Our hunters come from a diversified set of beliefs, but work together toward one goal. And we’re the best at what we…

— A&E Kirk

“Global warming, environmental degradation, global flows of economic speculation and risk taking, overpopulation, global debt, new viruses, terrorism and warfare, and political…

— James Paul Gee

“Sin is always sin in the sight of God—whether we are conscious of it or not. Sins of ignorance need atonement just…

— Arthur W. Pink

For life is a fire burning along a piece of string--or is it a fuse to a powder keg which we call…

— Robert Penn Warren

It is not true that evil, destructiveness , and perversion inevitably form part of human existence, no matter how often this is…

— Alice Miller

“Memory cannot be understood, either, without a mathematical approach. The fundamental given is the ratio between the amount of time in the…

— Milan Kundera

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.

— Daniel J. Boorstin

“Beware of false knowledge, it is more dangerous than ignorance” ~ Bernard Shaw”

— Loren W. Christensen

Right conduct can never, except by some rare accident, be promoted by ignorance or hindered by knowledge.

— Bertrand Russell

“The sin of ignorance is the neglect of the Knowledge of salvation.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“How am I supposed to take it easy when all around me these creatures are in a perpetual state of ignorance?"...”

— S.G. Browne

This is...self-knowled ge-for a man to know what he knows, and what he does not know.

— Socrates

Mistakes is part of experience, but not learning from it is ignorance.

— Blaze Olamiday

“For any display of displeasure or anger against injustice and ungodliness, there is a reward and a godly result.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Curiosity killed the cat, but where human beings are concerned, the only thing a healthy curiosity can kill is ignorance.

— Harry Lorayne

“One forgets agnan (worldly knowledge) when he remains in Gnan (Knowledge of the Real Self, the Soul). Man can be in only…

— Dada Bhagwan

I believe that much of the maladjustment in our societies is caused, not by malevolence and corruption, but simply by ignorance.

— Gilbert Highet

There is nothing more frightful than an active ignorance. [Ger., Es ist nichts schrecklicher als eine thatige Unwissenheit.]

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

In the Bible the ignorant may learn all requisite knowledge, and the most knowing may learn to discern their ignorance.

— Robert Boyle

“Scientific Revolution has not been a revolution of knowledge. It has been above all a revolution of ignorance.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

You ignore me, but I like you. You do nothing, but I fall for you, I miss you, even though I know…

— Anonymous

All ignorance toboggans into know and trudges up to ignorance again.

— e. e. cummings