Ignorance Quotes · Page 96

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

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

— Yuval Noah Harari

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

— Robert Boyle

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

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

For all of his bravado, obnoxiousness, hatred, and vitriol, the scariest thing about Trump, to me, is his unique combination of ignorance…

— Lawrence M. Krauss

“In what way could keeping me in ignorance be construed as protection?’ I straighten a piece of wire to add to the…

— Elizabeth May

“The nature of the senses (indriya) is that they only seek out sensorial (indriyagamya) pleasures and the nature of that which is…

— Dada Bhagwan

Understanding how the media actually works is critical. Because editors depend on ignorance and media illiteracy to ply their trade. The fact…

— Ryan Holiday

A man remains ignorant because he loves ignorance, and chooses ignorant thoughts; a man becomes wise because he loves wisdom and chooses…

— James Allen

Begin each day by telling yourself: Today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolence, disloyalty, ill-will, and selfishness – all of…

— Marcus Aurelius

“Who were these people, all of them young couples, a few fabulous ones, tall thin-haired blondes with toned men in perfectly pressed…

— Dave Eggers

All men's instincts, all their impulses in life, are efforts to increase their freedom. Wealth and poverty, health and disease, culture and…

— Leo Tolstoy

It was with the last revolution and the coming of INGSOC (Inglish/English Socialism) that the latest High learnt how to keep their…

— George Orwell

The sacred is in the ordinary...it is to be found in one's daily life, in one's neighbors, friends, and family, in one's…

— Abraham Maslow

“One German-American friend of mine, an architectural historian my own age, can be counted on to excoriate Woodrow Wilson after he has…

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

Increasingly, our leaders must deal with dangers that threaten the entire world, where an understanding of those dangers and the possible solutions…

— Isaac Asimov

We are in the middle of a big swamp of ignorance that is taught by a lot of nonsense, propaganda, absurdity, amalgams.…

— Raoul Peck

If I should say anything that is not in conformity with what is held by the Holy Roman Catholic Church, it will…

— Anonymous

“There were some things it was better not to know. They caused "metaphysical" anguish, for which there was as yet no remedy.…

— Bernard Werber

All religions are not the same. All religions do not point to God. All religions do not say that all religions are…

— Ravi Zacharias

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

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

— Blaze Olamiday

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

— Socrates

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

— Sunday Adelaja

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

— Loren W. Christensen

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

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

— Daniel J. Boorstin

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