Ignorance Quotes

2444 Ignorance quotes by 1417 unique authors

The purpose of democracy - supplanting old belief in the necessary absoluteness of establish'd dynastic rulership, temporal, ecclesiastical, and scholastic, as furnishing the only security… — Walt Whitman
Why does a public discussion of economic policy so often show the abysmal ignorance of the participants? — Robert Solow
We must first note that economic factors are taken into account in a world in which ignorance, prejudice, and mental confusion, encouraged rather than dispelled… — Ronald Coase
The hope that poverty and ignorance may gradually be extinguished derives indeed much support from the steady progress of the working classes during the 19th… — Alfred Marshall
Democracies have been, and governments called, free; but the spirit of independence and the consciousness of unalienable rights, were never before transfused into the minds… — Sarah Josepha Hale
The false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge. — Isaac Asimov
The natural scientists of the previous age knew less than we do and believed they were very close to the goal: we have taken very… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the… — Robert Jastrow
Now more than ever the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless, and corrupt, it is because… — James A. Garfield
Now more than ever the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless, and corrupt, it is because… — James A. Garfield
If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason… — Ulysses S. Grant
By ignorance the truth is known. — Henry Suso
Few economic problems, if any, are difficult of solution. The difficulty, all but invariably, is in confronting them. We know what needs to be done;… — John Kenneth Galbraith
To each his suff'rings; all are men, Condemn'd alike to groan,- The tender for another's pain, Th' unfeeling for his own. Yet ah! why should… — Thomas Gray
O Jesus, if I but considered attentively your immense solicitude for me, how greatly should I not excel in every virtue? Pardon me, O Jesus,… — Gemma Galgani
I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man's life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder… — Ben Jonson
Words sing. They hurt. They teach. They sanctify. They were man's first, immeasurable feat of magic. They liberated us from ignorance and our barbarous past. — Leo Rosten
O death! We thank you for the light that you will shed upon our ignorance. — Jacques-Benigne Bossuet
If ignorance and passion are the foes of popular morality, it must be confessed that moral indifference is the malady of the cultivated classes. — Henri Frederic Amiel
In the spiritual realm, the opposite of ignorance is not knowledge, it's obedience. — Howard G. Hendricks
Wildlife of the world is disappearing... simply because of a general and widespread ignorance and neglect — Prince Philip
Our posterity will wonder about our ignorance of things so plain. — Seneca the Younger
The lower animals are our brethren. I include among them the lion and the tiger. We do not know how to live with these carnivorous… — Mahatma Gandhi
I think that of all the diseases in the world, the disease that all humankind suffers from, the disease that is most devastating to us… — Rich Mullins
Death is not the end, but the beginning of a new life. Yes, it is an end of something that is already dead. It is… — Rajneesh

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