Ignorance Quotes · Page 88

“Oppression has been in existence as long as man himself has been in existence.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate, roll darkly down the torrent of his fate.

— Samuel Johnson

It is a disgrace to let ignorance and vanity do more with us than prudence and principle.

— Marcus Aurelius

If I've learned anything from listening to world news, it's that the world is full of countries I've never even heard of.

— Anonymous

Don't ask the barber whether you need a haircut, and don't ask an academic if what he does is relevant.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Ignorance of the law is not a valid excuse for accused criminals, and it cannot be an excuse for members of Congress.

— Paul Broun

Your wisdom is creating your successes. Your ignorance is creating your failures.

— Anonymous

“The higher the proportion of adults with low literacy proficiency is, the slower the overall long-term GDP growth rate is.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Pride comes from not knowing yourself and the world. The older you grow, and the more you see, the less reason you…

— J. C. Ryle

We're all caught up in circumstances, and we're all good and evil. When you're really hungry, for instance, you'll do anything to…

— Anthony Hopkins

“Without self-discovery,” Hahn wrote, extending an idea of Nietzsche’s, “a person may still have self-confidence, but it is a self-confidence built on…

— Andrew Solomon

There are few earthly things more beautiful than a university a place where those who hate ignorance may strive to know, where…

— John Masefield

Therefore let us repent and pass from ignorance to knowledge, from foolishness to wisdom, from licentiousness to self-control, from injustice to righteousness,…

— Clement of Alexandria

“Oswald Chambers says, “Intellectual darkness comes through ignorance; spiritual darkness comes because of something I do not intend to obey.”

— Stormie Omartian

If a novelist had concocted a villain like Trump - a larger-than-life, over-the-top avatar of narcissism, mendacity, ignorance, prejudice, boorishness, demagoguery, and…

— Michiko Kakutani

For after all man knows mighty little, and may some day learn enough of his own ignorance to fall down again and…

— Henry Adams

“When we mistake what we can know for all there is to know, a healthy appreciation of one’s ignorance in the face…

— Michael Pollan

Let us hear the dangers of thralldom to our consciences from ignorance, extreme poverty, and dependence; in short, from civil and political…

— John Adams

“What man knows is little enough and most of his general concepts in every field are vitiated by the artificial concepts he…

— Charles Hapgood

We have heard of a Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. It is said that knowledge is power, and the like.…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Only the Jew knew that by an able and persistent use of propaganda heaven itself can be presented to the people as…

— Adolf Hitler

Just as full sunlight completely dispels all darkness but even a few rays provide a measure of light, so, if we complete…

— Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

Ignorance has been well represented under the similitude of a dungeon, where, though it is full of life, yet darkness and silence…

— Horace Mann

“I can't admit of an old boy of a God who takes walks in his garden with a cane in his hand,…

— Gustave Flaubert

In my country we say that ignorance is the warm bath in which it is comfortable to sit but dangerous to lie…

— Marina Lewycka

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

— Enrico Fermi

“The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you know nothing about”

— Wayne W. Dyer

I think it is important to speak your mind. Tolerance of the ignorance sends the wrong message to kids.

— Marley Dias

I'd like to thank readers. Every time you open a book, it is a strike against ignorance. Unless you're reading Sarah Palin.

— Libba Bray

It is ignorance of the saddest kind to think that in acting like someone else, you can somehow become a better yourself.

— Tia Nnebo

I show my love n know its true but its just you who's blind n deaf to realize it.

— Nitika

In the spiritual realm, the opposite of ignorance is not knowledge, it's obedience.

— Howard G. Hendricks

Religions have depended on the relative isolation and ignorance of their flocks, forever and this is all breaking down.

— Daniel Dennett

He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.

— Graham Greene

Indulgence in animal killing for the taste of the tongue is the grossest kind of ignorance

— A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

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

— Thomas Jefferson

“There is a price for everything in life. Even what you receive freely has already been paid for by someone.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Elective ignorance was a great survival skill, perhaps the greatest.

— Jonathan Franzen

Better be unborn than unthought, for ignorance is the root of misfortune.

— Jessej Joseh

Travel is the best tool to break down the bars of ignorance, prejudges and the fear of the unknown.

— Anonymous