Ignorance Quotes

2444 Ignorance quotes by 1417 unique authors

A learned person among ignorant people, is like a live person among the dead. — Unknown Author
We cannot be saved until we have risen above all our enemies, not the least of which is ignorance. — Joseph Smith, Jr.
Ignorance is not lack of intelligence, nor knowledge a proof of genius. — Luc de Clapiers
Ignorance is the mother of presumption — Marie de Gournay
There is little hope for us until we become tough-minded enough to break loose from the shackles of prejudice, half-truths, and downright ignorance. The shape… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Ignorance is better than knowledge misapplied. — Norm MacDonald
It is an essential part of the scientific enterprise to admit ignorance, even to exult in ignorance as a challenge to future conquests. — Richard Dawkins
The hardest thing about reality is returning to it after an hour inside your child's mind. — Robert Breault
Bits of ignorance are like viruses that are copied and spread by interaction. — Seth Lloyd
All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance. — Warren Weaver
If ignorance were enough to make things not exist, the world would be more like a lot of people think it is. But it's not.… — William Gibson
The insolence of the vulgar is in proportion to their ignorance. They treat everything with contempt which they do not understand. — William Hazlitt
Be - don't try to become. Being is enlightenment, becoming is ignorance. — Rajneesh
George Kimble said, 'The only thing dark about Africa is our ignorance of it.' So let's start shedding light on this amazing eclectic continent that… — Euvin Naidoo
The level of ignorance is declining, and the ability to accumulate data and manipulate it for various ends is increasing. — Bruce Sterling
I consider nothing low but ignorance, vice, and meanness, characteristics generally found where the animal propensities predominate over the higher sentiments. — William John Wills
Our ignorance is not so vast as our failure to use what we know. — M. King Hubbert
The truth is that our race survived ignorance; it is our scientific genius that will do us in. — Stephen Vizinczey
Ignorance of God's prophetic outline, failure to know God's program for the Church, the nations, and Israel, is the cause of the overwhelming amount of… — M R DeHaan
An exclusive person hates ugliness, discomfort, enemies, sickness, poverty, ignorance. He finally concludes that there is no God and give himself over to abandonment. — Michio Kushi
I can honestly say that there are many forms of atheism that I find far more admirable than many forms of Christianity or of religion… — David Bentley Hart
I was going to talk about Nicholas Parsons' ignorance, but 18 seconds would be a wholly insufficient time. — Clement Freud
I'm against ignorance. I'm against sloppy, emotional thinking. I'm against fashionable thinking. I am against the whole cliché of the moment. — Herman Kahn
The only thing worse than human ignorance is human pride in that ignorance. — George Takei

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