Ignorance Quotes

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To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. — Isaac Asimov
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them. — Isaac Asimov
When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one… — Isaac Asimov
Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition. — Isaac Asimov
Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we… — Isaac Asimov
Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. — Francis of Assisi
Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up. — Mary Astell
India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight,… — Sri Aurobindo
Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects… — Teresa of Avila
If I should say anything that is not in conformity with what is held by the Holy Roman Catholic Church, it will be through ignorance… — Teresa of Avila
The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the… — Richard Bach
There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary… — Lord Acton
My boyhood life in New York City has impressed me with the popular ignorance and also with the great need of something better than local… — Cleveland Abbe
It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have. — James A. Baldwin
There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept. — Ansel Adams
The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are all blindly adopted, the second willfully preferred. — George Bancroft
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts. — Henry Adams
Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country. — Marion Barry
All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so… — John Adams
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. — Saul Bellow

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