Ignorance Quotes

2444 Ignorance quotes by 1417 unique authors

Wherever you go - in every country, or in every continent, people yearn and hunger for only one thing, to love and be loved. Love… — Michael Jackson
History is full of people who out of fear, or ignorance, or lust for power has destroyed knowledge of immeasurable value which truly belongs to… — Carl Sagan
The gears of poverty, ignorance, hopelessness and low self-esteem interact to create a kind of perpetual failure machine that grinds down dreams from generation to… — Carl Sagan
Absurdity is what I like most in life, and there's humor in struggling in ignorance. If you saw a man repeatedly running into a wall… — David Lynch
My ignorance is essential. I do not write what I know but what I need to know. — Don Murray
It’s easier to hold onto your own stereotypes and misconceptions, it makes you feel justified in your own ignorance. That’s America. So the challenge for… — Michel'le
What I love about the East End is that theres a great perseverance, determination and courage. What I dislike about it is that there is… — Eddie Marsan
Hurray, Hallelujah, and Happy Prostate! Finally, someone has taken the years and done the work, so the rest of us no longer need suffer from… — Dirk Benedict
Commentators who today talk of 'The Dark Ages' when faith instead of reason was said to ruthlessly rule, have for their animadversions only the excuse… — David Berlinski
Ah, how the seeds of cockiness blossom when soiled in ignorance. — Steve Alten
I have learned to prize holy ignorance more highly than religious certainty and to seek companions who have arrived at the same place. We are… — Barbara Brown Taylor
But promises based on ignorance always prove disappointing. — Unknown Author
Listen, my father had written. Listen to hear if they are telling the truth or only part of the truth, for that is the lesson… — Kate Elliott
I believe that anyone who doesn't read remains dumb. Even if they know how, failing to regularly ingest the written word dooms them to ignorance,… — Edward Bunker
If it is necessary, omit one bridge over the river, go round a little there, and throw one arch at least over the darker gulf… — Henry David Thoreau
In behaving respectfully toward all that the land contains, it is possible to imagine a stifling ignorance falling away from us. — Barry Lopez
We believe that we live in the 'age of information,' that there has been an information 'explosion,' an information 'revolution.' While in a certain narrow… — Bill McKibben
There are some of us who in after years say to Fate, 'Now deal us your hardest blow, give us what you will; but let… — Olive Schreiner
I do not want to see the Republican party ride to political victory on the Four Horsemen of Calumny-fear, ignorance, bigotry and smear. — Margaret Chase Smith
One ship is very much like another and the sea is always the same. In the immutability of their surroundings the foreign shores, the foreign… — Joseph Conrad
Disaster comes only because of ignorance. — Judah the Prince
In the schoolroom her quick mind had taken readily that strong starch of unexplained rules and disconnected facts which saves ignorance from any painful sense… — George Eliot
Of all the wastes of human ignorance perhaps the most extravagant and costly to human growth has been the waste of the distinctive powers of… — Anna Garlin Spencer
We live at a time when emotions and feelings count more than truth, and there is a vast ignorance of science — James Lovelock
I see at last that all the knowledge I wrung from the darkness - that darkness flung me - Is worthless as ignorance: nothing comes… — Randall Jarrell

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