Ignorance Quotes

2444 Ignorance quotes by 1417 unique authors

All around me insisted that my doubts proved only my own ignorance and sinfulness; that they knew by experience they would soon give place to… — Maria Monk
So far as I know, there were no pains taken to preserve secrecy on this subject; that is, I saw no attempt made to keep… — Maria Monk
I may say this is a deluded generation, veiled with ignorance, that tho[ugh] popery and slavery be riding in upon them, do not perceive it;… — Richard Rumbold
Ignorance is the primary source of all misery and vice. — Victor Cousin
Recognizing your own ignorance is the first step toward wisdom. — Laurence Overmire
Statistics: the mathematical theory of ignorance. — Morris Kline
If my false figures came near to the facts, this happened merely by chance ... These comments are not worth printing. Yet it gives me… — Johannes Kepler
Cowards never win victories. We have to fight fear and troubles and ignorance if we expect them to flee before us. — Swami Vivekananda
The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies. — Bela Lugosi
Foolishness is more than being stupid, that deadly combination of arrogance and ignorance. — Paul David Tripp
The future is a convenient place for dreams. — Anatole France
The theoretician believes in logic and believes that he despises dreams, intuition, and poetry. He does not recognize that these three fairies have only disguised… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
I am now and have always been a stranger to the realm of practical matters. — Anton Chekhov
Simple ignorance has in its time been complimented by the names of most of the vices, and of all the virtues. — Arthur Helps
The apparent foolishness of others is but too frequently our own ignorance. — Arthur Helps
Ignorance lies at the bottom of all human knowledge, and the deeper we penetrate, the nearer we arrive unto it. — Charles Caleb Colton
Losing our ignorance can be dangerous because our ignorance is a shield. — Dan Simmons
The darkest night is ignorance. — Gautama Buddha
Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug, but when it prescribes pills it may happen to do more harm. — George Eliot
It is a common sentence that Knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of Ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up… — George Eliot
It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog. — George Eliot
What we call evil, it seems to me, is simply ignorance bumping its head in the dark. — Henry Ford
Ignorance is the womb of monsters. — Henry Ward Beecher
Ignorance has been well represented under the similitude of a dungeon, where, though it is full of life, yet darkness and silence reign. But in… — Horace Mann
On entering this world our starting-point is ignorance. None, however, but idiots remain there. — Horace Mann

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