Ignorance Quotes · Page 104

I believe every change any word has undergone probably originated in ignorance.

— Rita Mae Brown

“Keep your mind open, just not so open that your brain starts leaking - an empty attic is a primate's olympus.”

— Abhijit Naskar

You so talented. that you can Miss me and ignore me at the same time.

— Abdul

Science is a contemplative possession of reality through exclusion of all illusion, error and ignorance.

— Georges Canguilhem

“Ignorance could go only so far before it should be categorized as stupidity.”

— Anna Scarlett

Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase.

— Charles Caleb Colton

The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

— Socrates

All the best essays are epistemological journeys from ignorance or curiosity to knowledge.

— Geoff Dyer

These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television, but more subtly the written press,…

— Alain Badiou

The snapshot has no pretense or ambition. Innocence is the quintessence of the snapshot. I wish to distinguish between innocence and ignorance.…

— Lisette Model

We may think of peace as the absence of war, that if the great powers would reduce their weapons arsenals, we could…

— Nhat Hanh

I could never accept findings based almost exclusively on mathematics. It ain't ignorance that causes all the trouble in this world. It's…

— Anonymous

“Took me a few years to understand what intelligence is; Took me an entire lifetime to understand ignorance. I still haven't found…

— Robin Sacredfire

The annals of the French Revolution prove that the knowledge of the few cannot counteract the ignorance of the many… The light…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Confronting information that directly challenges existing beliefs can be psychologically threatening to people, especially if the information challenges their sense of identity.”

— Rachel Hilary Brown

Paranoia is just another mask for ignorance. The truth, when you finally chase it down is almost always far worse than your…

— Hunter S. Thompson

The real power of the Buddha was that he had so much love. He saw people trapped in their notions of small…

— Nhat Hanh

Human rights are an aspect of natural law, a consequence of the way the universe works, as solid and as real as…

— L. Neil Smith

There's a great difference between knowing that a thing is so, and knowing how to use that knowledge for the good of…

— Jimmy Sangster

Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action. If it leads…

— Audre Lorde

It is dangerous to explain too clearly to man how like he is to the animals without pointing out his greatness. It…

— Blaise Pascal

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

— Dalai Lama

It belongs to small-mindedness to be unable to bear either honor or dishonor, either good fortune or bad, but to be filled…

— Aristotle

Maybe you don't know how to do something at work. Instead of asking the boss or seeking someone as a mentor, you…

— Carol S. Dweck

The trouble with most folks isn't their ignorance. It's knowin' so many things that ain't so.

— Josh Billings

Ignorance can be improved; willful ignorance and inaction is inexcusable.

— David Brock

The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

“Be it through intention or ignorance, our successes and our failures have been brought on by none other than ourselves.”

— Garth Stein

“Godliness has already come in human flesh to rescue humanity from its own ungodliness.”

— Sunday Adelaja

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.

— Isaac Asimov

“Ignorance is the prison that confines us, but true education is the key that sets us free.”

— Henry Johnson Jr

Open the gates of wisdom, tear the veil of ignorance, enter the abode of Divine Bliss. Rest in peace forever.

— Sathya Sai Baba

Do not worry of being ignored. Worry of why you are thinking about it, for ignorance will always exist.

— Anonymous

the bliss that comes from ignorance should seldom be encouraged for it is likely to do one out of a more satisfying…

— Ruth Stout

“If you have experienced injustice and insulted by the ungodliness, then you are a candidate to stand against the same.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“Your voice can be made loud to speak against ungodliness and injustice and not promote it.”

— Sunday Adelaja

I think what a life in science really teaches you is the vastness of our ignorance.

— David Eagleman

“Always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy.”

— Maya Angelou

“Anyone who is ignorant, even a lord and prince, can and should be counted as one of the mob.”

— Cervantes

Willful ignorance and endless laws become the replacement for self-education and self-restraint, because ignorance and laws are easy.

— Holly Lisle