Ignorance Quotes

2444 Ignorance quotes by 1417 unique authors

As life in general constituted much pain in the form of struggles against poverty, disease, ignorance, and emotional anguish, what more civilized way for people… — Aberjhani
You bring me the deepest joy that can be felt by a man whose invincible belief is that Science and Peace will triumph over Ignorance… — Louis Pasteur
If we're able to identify our own ignorance, we can identify someone else's expertise. We learn how to listen to each other. And that is… — Ted Koppel
It is, however, a most astonishing but incontestable fact, that the history of the evolution of man as yet constitutes no part of general education.… — Ernst Haeckel
His ignorance is encyclopedic. — Abba Eban
I refuse to believe in a god who is the primary cause of conflict in the world, preaches racism, sexism, homophobia, and ignorance, and then… — Mark Fuhrman
Any formal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious possession - their ignorance. — Hendrik Willem van Loon
Admiration is the daughter of ignorance. — Benjamin Franklin
God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom… — John Calvin
"Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God." This sentence alone would save mankind if all books and prophets were lost. This… — Swami Vivekananda
Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature. — Oscar Wilde
To attempt social reform, educational reform, industrial expansion, the moral improvement of the race without aiming, first and foremost, at political freedom is the very… — Sri Aurobindo
Nothing is worse than active ignorance. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know. — Aldous Huxley
Can anything be more absurd than keeping women in a state of ignorance, and yet so vehemently to insist on their resisting temptation? — Vicesimus Knox
It is not till it is discovered that high individual incomes will not purchase the mass of mankind immunity from cholera, typhus, and ignorance, still… — R. H. Tawney
The realization of ignorance is the first act of knowing. — Jean Toomer
The Americans say that we are ungrateful-but I ask them for heaven's sake, what should we be grateful to them for-for murdering our fathers and… — David Walker
Mediation and reconciliation work is about a profound quest for justice and social transformation. But at the same time, they are about service, solidarity, about… — Hizkias Assefa
preach, my dear Sir, a crusade against ignorance; establish & improve the law for educating the common people. — Thomas Jefferson
There are three ways in which a ruler can bring misfortune on his army: By commanding the army to advance or to retreat, being ignorant… — Sun Tzu
He must be able to mystify his officers and men by false reports and appearances, and thus keep them in total ignorance. — Sun Tzu
We have ignored cultural literacy in thinking about education We ignore the air we breathe until it is thin or foul. Cultural literacy is the… — E. D. Hirsch, Jr.
The elimination of ignorance, of illiteracy... and of needless inequalities in opportunities (is) to be seen as objectives that are valued for their own sake.… — Amartya Sen
Peace does not fare well where poverty and deprivation reign. It does not flourish where there is ignorance and a lack of education and information. — Frederik Willem de Klerk

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