--- title: "10 Ignorance Way Quotes by 9 authors" description: "Browse 10 Ignorance Way quotes by 9 authors. Discover the best Ignorance Way sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ae4/alice-sebold-999_distance_i-dont-think-ignorance-is-a-way-that-you_1123234.jpg" --- > [I dont think ignorance is a way that you gain distance on something.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-sebold/i-dont-think-ignorance-is-a-way-that-you-gain-distance-on-something/) [Alice Sebold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-sebold/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ae4/alice-sebold-999_distance_i-dont-think-ignorance-is-a-way-that-you_1123234.jpg) > [“The price of ignorance is way more than the price we would have paid to acquire knowledge.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sunday-adelaja/the-price-of-ignorance-is-way-more-than-the-price-we-would-have-paid/) [Sunday Adelaja](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sunday-adelaja/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c1e/sunday-adelaja-35_acquire_the-price-of-ignorance-is-way-more-than_2780948.jpg) > [I don't think ignorance is a way that you gain distance on something.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-sebold/i-don-t-think-ignorance-is-a-way-that-you-gain-distance-on-something/) [Alice Sebold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-sebold/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9c6/alice-sebold-999_distance_i-don-t-think-ignorance-is-a-way-that-yo_80199.jpg) > [“What sickens me about left-wing people, especially the intellectuals, is their utter ignorance of the way things actually happen.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/what-sickens-me-about-left-wing-people-especially-the-intellectuals/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/045/george-orwell-57_ignorance_what-sickens-me-about-left-wing-people-e_1613448.jpg) > [Sometimes it's best to speak from ignorance: that way, you can see the wood without being distracted by the trees.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/howard-jacobson/sometimes-it-s-best-to-speak-from-ignorance-that-way-you-can-see-the/) [Howard Jacobson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/howard-jacobson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/067/howard-jacobson-1484_best_sometimes-it-s-best-to-speak-from-ignora_3124628.jpg) > [Saying we should scrap drones shows an irresponsible and nonsensical ignorance of the way we protect our country. It lets down our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amber-rudd/saying-we-should-scrap-drones-shows-an-irresponsible-and-nonsensical/) [Amber Rudd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amber-rudd/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d81/amber-rudd-6779_country_saying-we-should-scrap-drones-shows-an-i_2108189.jpg) > [The truth is, going against the internal stream of ignorance is way more rebellious than trying to start some sort of cultural…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noah-levine/the-truth-is-going-against-the-internal-stream-of-ignorance-is-way/) [Noah Levine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noah-levine/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a55/noah-levine-12272_ignorance_the-truth-is-going-against-the-internal_2692029.jpg) > [“Moreover, he felt vaguely that what he called his convictions were not only ignorance but were a way of thinking that made…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leo-tolstoy/moreover-he-felt-vaguely-that-what-he-called-his-convictions-were-not/) [Leo Tolstoy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leo-tolstoy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a24/leo-tolstoy-55_faith_moreover-he-felt-vaguely-that-what-he-ca_2378408.png) > [Is there a wrong way to say "I don't know"? Yes. When we declare ignorance, it should be a) honest and b)…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leah-hager-cohen/is-there-a-wrong-way-to-say-i-don-t-know-yes-when-we-declare/) [Leah Hager Cohen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leah-hager-cohen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/12c/leah-hager-cohen-16901_accountability_is-there-a-wrong-way-to-say-i-don-t-know_122959.jpg) > [“We even, at the worst, reach the state for which Buddhism, in the East presents most ably the case: as in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aleister-crowley/we-even-at-the-worst-reach-the-state-for-which-buddhism-in-the-east/) [Aleister Crowley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aleister-crowley/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a10/aleister-crowley-1100_1945_we-even-at-the-worst-reach-the-state-for_3000911.png) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ignorance-way/#itemlist", "name": "Ignorance Way Quotes", 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Yes. When we declare ignorance, it should be a) honest and b) in the spirit of opening ourselves up to hearing, to learning, to receiving. When we say \"I don't know\" under these conditions, the words can forge connection, healing, growth. But when we resist or disavow knowledge, when we profess ignorance as a way of donning armor and evading accountability, then we make a mockery of those words, and we rupture connections not only with others but within ourselves, within our souls.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Leah Hager Cohen" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leah-hager-cohen/is-there-a-wrong-way-to-say-i-don-t-know-yes-when-we-declare/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/12c/leah-hager-cohen-16901_accountability_is-there-a-wrong-way-to-say-i-don-t-know_122959.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/12c/leah-hager-cohen-16901_accountability_is-there-a-wrong-way-to-say-i-don-t-know_122959.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/12c/leah-hager-cohen-16901_accountability_is-there-a-wrong-way-to-say-i-don-t-know_122959.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Is there a wrong way to say \"I don't know\"? Yes. When we declare ignorance, it should be a) honest and b) in…” — Leah Hager Cohen", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 10, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“We even, at the worst, reach the state for which Buddhism, in the East presents most ably the case: as in the West, does James Thomson (B.V.) in The City of Dreadful Night ; we come to wish for—or, more truly to think that we wish for \"blest Nirvana's sinless stainless Peace\" (or some such twaddle—thank God I can't recall Arnold's mawkish and unmanly phrase!) and B.V.'s \"Dateless oblivion and divine repose.\" I insist on the \"think that you wish,\" because, if the real You did really wish the real That, you could never have come to exist at all! (\"But I don't exist.\"—\"I know—let's get on!\") Note, please, how sophistically unconvincing are the Buddhist theories of how we ever got into this mess. First cause: Ignorance. Way out, then, knowledge. O.K., that implies a knower, a thing known—and so on and so forth, through all the Three Waste Paper Baskets of the Law; analysed, it turns out to be nonsense all dolled up to look like thinking. And there is no genuine explanation of the origin of the Will to be. 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