Ignorance Quotes

2444 Ignorance quotes by 1417 unique authors

And the quality of good judgement is clearly a form of knowledge and skill, as it is because of knowledge and not because of ignorance… — Plato
Ignorance is not an extension of time — H.G. Wells
Whoever would not remain in complete ignorance of the resources which cause him to act; whoever would seize, at a single philosophical glance, the nature… — Franz Joseph Gall
A man is skillful at woodraft just in proportion as he approaches this balance. Knowing the wilderness can be comfortable when a less experienced man… — Stewart Edward White
Uncertainty that comes from knowledge (knowing what you don't know) is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance. — Isaac Asimov
Compared with the person who is conscious of his despair, the despairing individual who is ignorant of his despair is simply a negativity further away… — Soren Kierkegaard
All the evils that men cause to each other because of certain desires, or opinions or religious principles, are rooted in ignorance. [All hatred would… — Maimonides
Pedantry, in the common acceptation of the word, means an absurd ostentation of learning, and stiffness of phraseology, proceeding from a misguided knowledge of books… — Henry Mackenzie
I prefer the discipline of knowledge to the anarchy of ignorance. — David Ogilvy
In fact, the only way to remain creative over time--to not be undone by our expertise--is to experiment with ignorance, to stare at things we… — Jonah Lehrer
There are, in effect, two things, to know and to believe one knows; to know is science; to believe one knows is ignorance. — Hippocrates
To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance. — Hippocrates
People are supposed to fear the unknown, but ignorance is bliss when knowledge is so damn frightening. — Laurell K. Hamilton
There must be more equality established in society, or morality will never gain ground, and this virtuous equakity will not rest firmly even when founded… — Mary Wollstonecraft
Ah, child and youth, if you knew the bliss which resides in the taste of knowledge, and the evil and ugliness that lies in ignorance,… — Christine de Pizan
Once a man criticized my desire for knowledge by saying that it was not fitting for a woman to possess learning because there was so… — Christine de Pizan
If ignorance is bliss, then knock the smile off my face. — Zack de la Rocha
Yes I know my enemies. They're the teachers who taught me to fight me, compromise, conformity, assimilation, submission, ignorance, hypocrisy, brutality, the elite, all of… — Zack de la Rocha
When ignorance reigns, life is lost — Zack de la Rocha
Education is imposed ignorance. — Noam Chomsky
It was easy to present figures demonstrating the contrast between lead work in the United States under conditions of neglect and ignorance, and comparable work… — Alice Hamilton
We must go beyond the arrogance of human rights. We must go beyond the ignorance of civil rights. We must step into the reality of… — John Trudell
There may be women to emerge who will be able to formulate a new and possible concept that homosexual persecution and condemnation has at its… — Lorraine Hansberry
A wise architect observed that you could break the laws of architec75tural art provided you had mastered them first. That would apply to religion as… — Reinhold Niebuhr
You can bet the rent money that whatever politicians do will end up harming consumers. ... Economic ignorance is to politicians what idle hands are… — Walter E. Williams

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