Ignorance Quotes

2444 Ignorance quotes by 1417 unique authors

Probably the most honest "self-made person" ever was the one we heard say: "I got to the top the hard way - fighting my own… — James Alexander Thom
Ignorance has no beginning, but it has an end. There is a beginning but no end to knowledge. — B.K.S. Iyengar
An ignorant person is, by the very fact of his or her ignorance, a very dangerous person. — Hendrik Willem van Loon
Ignorance deprives people of freedom because they do not know what alternatives there are. It is impossible to choose to do what one has never… — Ralph Barton Perry
When an individual fear or apathy would cause us to pass by the unfortunate, then life is of no account. — Haniel Long
In the alchemy of man's soul almost all noble attributes- courage, honor, love, hope, faith, duty, loyalty, and so on - can be transmuted into… — Eric Hoffer
Every time you make a choice that expresses respect for life, you bring a little more love in your body, into your family, into our… — John Robbins
Everyone has a responsibility to not only tolerate another person's point of view, but also to accept it eagerly as a challenge to your own… — Arlo Guthrie
Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life. — Woodrow Wilson
Ignorance is jealousy's twin sister. — Dean Frazer
We who claim to love peace and justice must always be careful that we do not use our righteousness to provoke the violent, and in… — Thomas Merton
It means a great deal to those who are oppressed to know that they are not alone. And never let anyone tell you that what… — Desmond Tutu
Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal; and he may be properly charged with evil who refused to learn how he might prevent it. — Samuel Johnson
False taste is always busy to mislead those that are entering upon the regions of learning; and the traveller, uncertain of his way, and forsaken… — Samuel Johnson
Nothing has so exposed men of learning to contempt and ridicule as their ignorance of things which are known to all but themselves. Those who… — Samuel Johnson
Why does everyone have to pretend to be stupid and not know long words? — Martin Freeman
If the children are untaught, their ignorance and vices will in future life cost us much dearer in their consequences than it would have done… — Thomas Jefferson
There is no such thing as chance or accident; the words merely signify our ignorance of some real and immediate cause. — Adam Clarke
The field is a halfway house, halfway between the detail of those intimately known places and the ignorance of a landscape view ... The essence… — Adam Nicolson
I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation. — Anthony Hope
A man is never astonished that he doesn't know what another does, but he is surprised at the gross ignorance of the other in not… — Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Ignorance ... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it. — George Eliot
When grown people speak of the innocence of children, they don't really know what they mean. Pressed, they will go a step further and say,… — William Faulkner
There was never a time in our history when ignorance of current affairs could be so dangerous. — Edgar Dale
I hope that my children, at least, if not I myself, will see the day when ignorance of the primary laws and facts of science… — Charles Kingsley

Who Wrote These Ignorance Quotes

1,417 authors contributed a total of 2,444 Ignorance Quotes, led by these top contributors: