Ignorance Quotes

2444 Ignorance quotes by 1417 unique authors

How could the human mind progress, while tormented with frightful phantoms, and guided by men, interested in perpetuating its ignorance and fears? Man has been… — Baron d'Holbach
The savage lives simply through ignorance and idleness or laziness, but the philosopher lives simply through wisdom. — Henry David Thoreau
Then in October, Indian Summer, the air turned so soft, the sunlight so fragile, and each day's loveliness so poignantly doomed that even self-ignorance and… — David James Duncan
To my mind, nothing is as important as good writing, because in literature, the walls between people and cultures are broken down, and the things… — Richard Bausch
Let us then submit to an invincible ignorance on which our happiness depends. — Julien Offray de La Mettrie
A mind that questions everything, unless strong enough to bear the weight of its ignorance, risks questioning itself and being engulfed in doubt. — Emile Durkheim
If the history of science shows us anything, it is that we get nowhere by labeling our ignorance “God”. — Jerry A. Coyne
O Mary Mother of Mercy and Refuge of Sinners! We beseech thee to look with pitying eyes on poor heretics and schismatics. Do thou, who… — Pope Pius XII
If customer ignorance is a profit centre for you, you're in trouble. — Gary Hamel
All the best essays are epistemological journeys from ignorance or curiosity to knowledge. — Geoff Dyer
Science intensifies religious truth by cleansing it of ignorance and superstition. — Charles Lindbergh
In the New World, you'll kick your own ass and I'll wash my own brain. I'll be my own parents and you'll be you own… — Rob Brezsny
If you think education is expensive, try estimating the cost of ignorance. — Howard Gardner
Inspiration springs more readily from knowledge than from ignorance. — Horace Kallen
The idea of a news broadcast once was to find someone with information and broadcast it. The idea now is to find someone with ignorance… — P.J. O'Rourke
The truth is, going against the internal stream of ignorance is way more rebellious than trying to start some sort of cultural revolution. — Noah Levine
The point of the spiritual revolution is not to become a good Buddhist, but to become a wise and compassionate human being, to awaken from… — Noah Levine
The ground for taking ignorance to be restrictive of freedom is that it causes people to make choices which they would not have made if… — A.J. Ayer
Ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as well be. And I do not like feeling stupid. — Lois McMaster Bujold
Stupid is a condition. Ignorance is a choice. — Wiley Miller
The greatest wisdom often consist in ignorance. — Baltasar Gracian
To be curious about that which is not one's concern while still in ignorance of oneself is ridiculous. — Plato
If our knowledge is, as I believe, only an island in an infinite sea of ignorance, how can we in our short lifetime find satisfaction… — Daniel J. Boorstin
The gratification of curiosity rather frees us from uneasiness than confers pleasure; we are more pained by ignorance than delighted by instruction. Curiosity is the… — Samuel Johnson
A man who knows the world will not only make the most of everything he does know, but of many things he does not know,… — Charles Caleb Colton

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