Ignorance Quotes

2444 Ignorance quotes by 1417 unique authors

I was a bad practicing physician because I was never sure of the diagnosis or of the treatment. — Joshua Lederberg
No king or minister could have instructed Newton to discover the law of gravity, for they did not know and could not know that there… — C. Northcote Parkinson
Current intelligence-testing practices require examinees to answer but not to pose questions. In requiring only the answering of questions, these tests are missing a vital… — Robert Sternberg
Accept ignorance; pay more attention to the question than the answer; never be afraid to go in the opposite direction. — Richard Saul Wurman
Help publicly. Help privately. Help make sense where sense has gone missing. Help science to solve and faith to soothe. Help, and you will abolish… — Tom Hanks
According to the estimate of a prominent advertising firm, above 90 per cent, of the earning capacity of the prominent nostrums is represented by their… — Samuel Hopkins Adams
You'll see that it'll take more than five and a half months to wipe away peel;scrape away the blanket of ignorance that has been plastered… — Unknown Author
We took the traditional lands and smashed the traditional way of life. We brought the disasters. The alcohol. We committed the murders. We took the… — Paul Keating
This curious faith is predicated on the notion that we will soon develop unlimited new sources of energy: domestic oil fields, shale oil, gasified coal,… — Wendell Berry
There is no energy crisis, only a crisis of ignorance. — R. Buckminster Fuller
Boredom comes simply from ignorance and lack of imagination. — Susan Ertz
God stands in no need of our strength or wisdom, but of our ignorance, of our weakness; let us but give these to Him, and… — Dwight L. Moody
To constrain the brute force of the people, the European governments deem it necessary to keep them down by hard labor, poverty and ignorance, and… — Thomas Jefferson
Ignorance and bigotry, like other insanities, are incapable of self-government. — Thomas Jefferson
It is literally true that millions come easier to a trader after he knows how to trade, than hundreds did in the days of his… — Jesse Lauriston Livermore
These stupid peasants, who, throughout the world, hold potentates on their thrones, make statesmen illustrious, provide generals with lasting victories, all with ignorance, indifference, or… — Stephen Crane
Condemnation without investigation is the height of ignorance — Albert Einstein
The road to ignorance is paved with good editors. — George Bernard Shaw
If I wanted to write, I had to be willing to develop a kind of concentration found mostly in people awaiting execution. I had to… — Maya Angelou
Photography can light-up darkness and expose ignorance. — Lewis Hine
Absolute power can only be supported by error, ignorance and prejudice. — Lord Chesterfield
I try to hold both history and wilderness in mind, that my poems may the true measure of things and stand against the unbalance and… — Gary Snyder
It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine. — Heraclitus
The time will come when all people will view with horror light way in which society and its courts of law now take human life;… — Clarence Darrow
Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ. — St. Jerome

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