Ignorance Quotes

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Ignorance is not bliss — it is oblivion. Determined ignorance is the hastiest kind of oblivion. — Philip Wylie
True freedom, which is full joy, is the complete recognition of law and adaptation to it. Bondage comes from ignorance of law or opposition to… — John Andreas Widtsoe
People cheat when they are afraid. When there is no cost to being wrong or confessing ignorance, there is no reason to cheat or fake… — Leah Hager Cohen
Gentlemen, if my love for you equaled my ignorance of everything concerning you, it would indeed be unbounded. — Jean Plaidy
There is no capital more useful than intellect and wisdom, and there is no indigence more injurious than ignorance and unawareness. — Ali ibn Abi Talib
No wealth like education and no poverty like ignorance — Ali ibn Abi Talib
The Nation has not yet found peace from its sins; the freedman has not yet found in freedom his promised land. Whatever of good may… — W. E. B. Du Bois
WISDOM IS dependent upon knowledge. Where there is complete ignorance there can be no wisdom, no knowledge of the right thing to do. Man’s knowledge… — Wallace D. Wattles
Two ideas are psychologically deep-rooted in man: self-protection and self-preservation. For self-protection man has created God, on whom he depends for his own protection, safety… — Walpola Rahula
We are part of the world creation, and we ourselves create nothing. Our knowledge allows us to make use of all the forces already in… — Arshile Gorky
I write to please myself—of course, that is a given. But beyond this reach for pleasure, I know that I write for my countrymen, that… — F. Sionil JosÃ©
The man who realizes his ignorance has taken the first step toward knowledge. — Max Heindel
Consciousness of myself, combined with complete ignorance of everything that does not fall within my sphere of thinking, is the most telling proof of my… — Moses Mendelssohn
Television, the drug of the nation, breeding ignorance and feeding radiation... — Michael Franti
The purely righteous do not complain of the dark, but increase the light; they do not complain of evil, but increase justice; they do not… — Abraham Isaac Kook
Faith is a term that makes ignorance sound like a virtue — Unknown Author
Man, surrounded by facts, permitting himself no surprise, no intuitive flash, no great hypothesis, no risk, is in a locked cell. Ignorance cannot seal the… — Albert Einstein
The failure of the family court system in America is a national scandal. Sadly, the mainstream media, whether out of ignorance or fear, refuses to… — Unknown Author
One day Mara, the Buddhist god of ignorance and evil, was traveling through the villages of India with his attendants. He saw a man doing… — Jack Kornfield
It belongs to small-mindedness to be unable to bear either honor or dishonor, either good fortune or bad, but to be filled with conceit when… — Aristotle
It is only in folk tales, children's stories, and the journals of intellectual opinion that power is used wisely and well to destroy evil. The… — Noam Chomsky
The tragedy of ignorance is its complacency. — Robert Quillen
There is no sinfulness in the will and affections without some error in the understanding. All lusts which a natural man lives in, are lusts… — George Gillespie
Wherever there is evil and wherever there is ignorance and want of knowledge, I have found out by experience that all evil comes, as our… — Swami Vivekananda
No man ever went broke overestimating the ignorance of the American public. — P T Barnum

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