Ignorance Quotes · Page 89

Absolute power can only be supported by error, ignorance and prejudice.

— Anonymous

I was going to talk about Nicholas Parsons' ignorance, but 18 seconds would be a wholly insufficient time.

— Clement Freud

Mine worst feelings are when I am ignored by someone who means a lot to me .

— Neha

Never let ignorance, hate, or negativity stop you from doing what you want.

— Anonymous

“What sickens me about left-wing people, especially the intellectuals, is their utter ignorance of the way things actually happen.”

— George Orwell

There is no limit to stupidity. - Space itself is said to be bounded by its own curvature, but stupidity continues beyond…

— Gene Wolfe

How the city attracts all types and how the unwary must suffer from ignorance of its ways.

— Cyprian Ekwensi

The extent of a man's ignorance is not measured in what he does not know, but in what he refuses to learn.

— Anonymous

My proof convinces the ignorant, and the wise man's proof convinces me. But he whose reasoning falls between wisdom and ignorance, I…

— Khalil Gibran

The scientist who yields anything to theology, however slight, is yielding to ignorance and false pretenses, and as certainly as if he…

— H. L. Mencken

Fear is born from ignorance. We think that the other person is trying to take away something from us. But if we…

— Nhat Hanh

Educationists are entertaining. We can always find a good laugh in their prose, with its special, ludicrous combination of ignorance and pretentiousness.

— Richard Mitchell

Nirvana means to extinguish the burning fires of the Three Poisons: greed, anger, and ignorance. This can be accomplished by letting go…

— Shinjo Ito

For myself, I long ago decided that I would rather know the truth than be happy in ignorance. If I can not…

— Anonymous

“Of all difficulties which impede the progress of thought, and the formation of well-grounded opinions on life and social arrangements, the greatest…

— John Stuart Mill

In Buddhism, ignorance as the root cause of suffering refers to a fundamental misperception of the true nature of the self and…

— Dalai Lama

“Someone has said,”Education is going from an unconscious to conscious awareness of one’s ignorance.”..No one has a corner on wisdom. All the…

— Anonymous

“The Misbâh has chapters on “knowledge” (- ilm, ch. 62), “certain knowledge” ( yaqîn, ch. 88), “wisdom” (hikmah, ch. 99), and “ignorance”…

— Franz Rosenthal

Do you think you can cure the hatreds and the maladjustments of the world by hanging them? You simply show your ignorance…

— Clarence Darrow

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

— Milan Kundera

Now more than ever the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless, and corrupt,…

— James A. Garfield

Is it not High Time for the People of this Country explicitly to declare, whether they will be Freemen or Slaves? It…

— Samuel Adams

There are two threats to reason, the opinion that one knows the truth about the most important things and the opinion that…

— Allan Bloom

The internet was supposed to liberate knowledge, but in fact it buried it, first under a vast sewer of ignorance, laziness, bigotry,…

— Ben Elton

But what sin is to the moralist and crime to the jurist so to the scientific man is ignorance.

— Frederick Soddy

“preferring actual ignorance to the appearance of it, he did not ask.”

— Sheri S. Tepper

“I say, there is no darkness but ignorance; in which thou art more puzzled than the Egyptians in their fog.”

— William Shakespeare

Everyone is afraid of enlightenment, knowledge, completion. People are afraid of being exposed.

— Frederick Lenz

When ignorance mobilizes, it's always the free minds it destroys first.

— Helen Nielsen

Bigotry is ever the child of ignorance, and the cultivation of the understanding is the only radical cure for it.

— Mary Hays

We live at a time when emotions and feelings count more than truth, and there is a vast ignorance of science

— James Lovelock

“It is the people who are displeased with injustice that can be a channel for social justice.”

— Sunday Adelaja

His life, measured in space and time, will take up a mere few lines, which my ignorance will abbreviate further.

— Jorge Luis Borges

“Your anger against every form of insult and oppression must be out of love.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Don't talk too much because ignorance is greater and more dangerous than your knowledge.

— Vikrant Parsai

preach, my dear Sir, a crusade against ignorance; establish & improve the law for educating the common people.

— Thomas Jefferson

“Art is just another way to describe and classify reality – its mystical aspects merely a function of ignorance.”

— Neal Asher

Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.

— Abraham Verghese

I know I'm not the best tennis player there's ever been, but calling me a loser is just ignorance.

— Tim Henman

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

— Bertrand Russell