Ignorance Quotes

2444 Ignorance quotes by 1417 unique authors

Every principle is a judgment, every judgment the outcome of experience, and experience is only acquired by the exercise of the senses; whence it follows… — Marquis de Sade
In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
How the city attracts all types and how the unwary must suffer from ignorance of its ways. — Unknown Author
Neglect of mathematics work injury to all knowledge, since he who is ignorant of it cannot know the other sciences or things of this world.… — Roger Bacon
In wonder all philosophy began, in wonder it ends, and admiration fill up the interspace; but the first wonder is the offspring of ignorance, the… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The study of history is useful to the historian by teaching him his ignorance of women. — Henry Adams
Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance in another, can… — Jane Austen
Is it not high time for the people of this country to explicitly declare whether they will be free men or slaves. It is an… — Samuel Adams
If we are to guard against ignorance and remain free, it is the responsibility of every American to be informed, — Thomas Jefferson
At present we educate people only up to the point where they can earn a living and marry; then education ceases altogether, as though a… — Carl Jung
Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value. — Jean de La Fontaine
What is wrong is not the great discoveries of science—information is always better than ignorance, no matter what information or what ignorance. What is wrong… — Archibald MacLeish
A play is made by sensing how the forces in life simulate ignorance-you set free the concealed irony, the deadly joke. — Arthur Miller
Ignorance can't be pardoned. Only cured. — Robert Silverberg
My folks tried to make a preacher of me and missed by a narrow margin… I would have made a good one if I hadn’t… — Robert A. Heinlein
In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance. — Theodore Dreiser
Knowledge of one's identity, one's self, community, nation, religion, and God, is the true meaning of resurrection, while ignorance of it signifies hell. — Elijah Muhammad
Willful ignorance and endless laws become the replacement for self-education and self-restraint, because ignorance and laws are easy. — Holly Lisle
These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television, but more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular… — Alain Badiou
Freedom begins where it ends ignorance. — Victor Hugo
It would be difficult to dispel ignorance unless there is freedom to pursue the truth unfettered by fear. — Aung San Suu Kyi
What wise God would consign a man to Hell for ignorance, instead of teaching him better in the afterlife? — Marion Zimmer Bradley
The common curse of mankind, folly and ignorance, be thine in great revenue! — William Shakespeare
It is ignorance or at least lack of consideration of heavenly things that make the temporal things of this world, whether good or evil, greater… — Unknown Author
Against a stupidity that is in fashion, no wisdom compensates. — Theodor Fontane

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