Ignorance Quotes · Page 123

This son taught that any man who did not believe that piece of ignorance and priestly lying would go to hell and…

— Charles Chilton Moore

The existence and remembrance of god depends on the ignorance of people close to your heart.

— Nishan Panwar

We must go beyond the arrogance of human rights. We must go beyond the ignorance of civil rights. We must step into…

— John Trudell

Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.

— William Ellery Channing

It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.

— Paul Gauguin

Some writers, rejecting the idea which science had reached, that reefs of rocks could be due in any way to "animalcules," have…

— James Dwight Dana

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is worth more. [Fr., Rien n'est si dangereux qu'un ignorant ami;…

— Jean de La Fontaine

“Intellectual cowardice is only one of the problems of the academic community. Fort rubbed their noses in the swill generated by their…

— John Keel

“Rationality belongs to the cool observer, but because of the stupidity of the average man, he follows not reason, but faith, and…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

“Greed is an excessive desire for something more than one’s proper share.”

— Sunday Adelaja

So long as mathematicians can impose up-and-down semantics upon students while trafficking personally in the non-up-and-down advantages of their concise statements, they…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

As coercive monopolies that spend other people's money taken by force, governments are uniquely unqualified to solve problems. They are riddled by…

— John Stossel

Death people who are still alive at this hour, must resurrect and ascend to the intellectual heaven where there is no ignorance.

— Anonymous

“The commonest error of the gifted scholar, inexperienced in teaching, is to expect pupils to know what they have been told. But…

— Edward Lee Thorndike

There is a lot of ignorance, and I don't mean intellectual ignorance. I mean people think that if you get something, it…

— Maya Angelou

“I was never punished for my ignorance; I was punished by my ignorance.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

Education is the proper way to promote compassion and tolerance in society. Compassion and peace of mind bring a sense of confidence…

— Dalai Lama

All religions are ancient monuments to superstition, ignorance and ferocity.

— Baron d'Holbach

The things you see are real, but they are not a complete seeing - Samsara.

— Frederick Lenz

Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.

— Carl Sagan

Another of the qualities of science is that it teaches the value of rational thought, as well as the importance of freedom…

— Richard P. Feynman

“There is no limit to the amount of intelligence invested in ignorance when the need for illusion runs deep.”

— Saul Bellow

“ In those parts of the world where learning and science has prevailed, miracles have ceased; but in such parts of it…

— Ethan Allen

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

I am your lover, come to my side, I will open the gate to your love. Come settle with me, let us…

— Anonymous

“You must be determined to overcome the insults of the ungodliness of this world with the weapon of the light inside of…

— Sunday Adelaja

Without feeling abashed by my ignorance, I confess that I am absolutely unable to say. In the absence of an appearance of…

— Anonymous

“Ungodliness is confronting the society and everyone seems to be at its mercy because of greed for pleasure.”

— Sunday Adelaja

I like the fact that the weather forecast is always wrong. In a world of BlackBerry insta-connection, Google research, and Hadron Colliders,…

— Victoria Coren Mitchell

“Ignorance is a lot like alcohol: the more you have of it, the less you are able to see its effect on…

— Jay Bylsma

Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.

— Carl Sagan

Ignorance and bigotry, like other insanities, are incapable of self-government.

— Thomas Jefferson

It's appropriate that the word 'ignorance' is an extension of the word 'ignore.' We ignore so much and so we become ignore-ant.

— David Icke

Ignorance breeds fear and hatred.

— Anonymous

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.

— Plato

You are really in search of yourself, without knowing it. You are love-longing for the love-worthy, the perfect lovable. Due to ignorance…

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

What we know here is very little, but what we are ignorant of is immense.

— Anonymous

“She was a nice person, she really was, until someone ignorant decided to force that ignorance in her face, and then she…

— Lora Leigh

If you read social media, you can see how immigration is such a hot-button debate and [a hotbed] of ignorance. You know…

— George Lopez

But ignorance of the law is no excuse. A person is guilty even if he breaks the law unknowingly. I shall be…

— Walther Funk