Ignorance Quotes · Page 90

Knowledge is no guarantee of good behavior, but ignorance is a virtual guarantee of bad behavior.

— Martha C. Nussbaum

Nothing convinces persons of a weak understanding so effectually, as what they do not comprehend.

— Lord Chesterfield

“Politics and Sport were invented to give unknowledgeable people an opportunity to share their knowledge.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“The reason why one man is great and another is not is simply because one man discovered the power of time while…

— Sunday Adelaja

“Before you can dispel other people's ignorance, you should first dispel your own.”

— Nikolai Grozni

Nothing fosters courage like a clear grasp of grace... & nothing fosters fear like an ignorance of mercy

— Max Lucado

We have to stand together against terror and the reasons for terrorism, which are poverty and ignorance.

— Shimon Peres

“They were in a position of total ignorance and people in that position often died without being enlightened.”

— Eoin Colfer

In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue…

— Edward de Bono

The only news most people ever hear about the inner city comes from grim headlines; the only residents they can name are…

— James Forman, Jr

That's through intelligence, not through ignorance, believe me. Because some of the things that they're asking you to do [in the Army]…

— Donald Trump

I do not believe 'Newsweek' is the only catcher in the rye between democracy and ignorance, but I think we're one of…

— Jon Meacham

Knowledge is leagued with the universe, and findeth a friend in all things; but ignorance is everywhere a stranger, unwelcome; ill at…

— Martin Farquhar Tupper

At my back I hear the word-"homosexual"-and it seems to split my world in two… It is ignorance, our ignorance of one…

— John Cheever

“Knowledge is power; power corrupts. Corruption brings shame and ruin. Ignorance may not be bliss, but it is perhaps preferable to a…

— Lauren Kate

Opinion of ghosts, ignorance of second causes, devotion to what men fear, and talking of things casual for prognostics, consisteth the natural…

— Thomas Hobbes

Science may have come a long way, but as far as religion is concerned, we are first cousins to the !Kung tribesmen…

— Phil Donahue

Probably no one of us has the True Religion. But all of us together - if we are allowed to be free…

— Daniel J. Boorstin

There can be no truly moral choice unless that choice is made in freedom; similarly, there can be no really firmly grounded…

— Murray Rothbard

Jung first gave us the term ‘shadow’ to refer to those parts of our personality that have been rejected out of fear,…

— Debbie Ford

Fortunately, some are born with spiritual immune systems that sooner or later give rejection to the illusory worldview grafted upon then from…

— Henri Bergson

“Gnostics (and Buddhists) have often been labeled pessimists and world haters because of their willingness to look the dark face of the…

— Stephan A. Hoeller

Death is not the end, but the beginning of a new life. Yes, it is an end of something that is already…

— Rajneesh

“The ignorant (uninformed about Atma and without faith) waste their lives. Through their disbelief they alienate themselves from the Self and thus…

— The Bhagavad Gita

Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.

— Anonymous

No human being can be more human than another human being. I liberate you from my ignorance.

— Maya Angelou

The only true conquests-those that awaken no regrets- are those obtained over our ignorance.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

It is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in and settleth in it, that doth…

— Francis Bacon

Here in your mind you have complete privacy. Here there's no difference between what is and what could be.

— Chuck Palahniuk

How happy is it for us, that the admiration of others should depend so much more on their ignorance than our perfection!

— Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

Even as a youngster, though, I could not bring myself to believe that if knowledge presented danger, the solution was ignorance.

— Isaac Asimov

Great things are accomplished by those who do not feel the impotence of man. This is a precious gift.

— Paul Valery

The older we grow the greater becomes our wonder at how much ignorance one can contain without bursting one's clothes.

— Mark Twain

Books are the true means of acquiring talent. If one does not read one remains ignorant, and ignorance can never produce true…

— Francesco Albani

I happen to have worked with male directors who don't understand women at all. Not at all. I'm flabbergasted by their ignorance.

— Catherine McCormack

In the clashes between ignorance and intelligence, ignorance is generally the aggressor.

— Paul Harris

Three were the fates. Poverty that chains; gray drudgery that grinds the hope away, and gaping ignorance that starves the soul.

— Edwin Markham

We have nothing to lose by trusting the infinite power of the Self, except the bondage of our own ignorance.

— Mata Amritanandamayi

Inexperience can be overcome, ignorance can be enlightened, but prejudice will destroy you.

— Mercedes Lackey

You can fix ignorance with education, but you just can't fix plain stupid.

— Anonymous