Ignorance Quotes

2444 Ignorance quotes by 1417 unique authors

The phenomenon of economic ignorance is so widespread, and its consequences so frightening, that the objective of reducing that ignorance becomes a goal invested with… — Israel Kirzner
Educate ourselves; educate other people, the population in general, to fight fear and ignorance, to eliminate little by little the subjection to nature and natural… — Amilcar Cabral
In a spiral galaxy, the ratio of dark-to-light matter is about a factor of ten. That's probably a good number for the ratio of our… — Vera Rubin
Where there is ignorance, sickness will thrive. — Osamu Tezuka
The majority of the diseases which the human family have been and still are suffering under, they have created by ignorance of their own organic… — Ellen G. White
The truth is, when all is said and done, one does not teach a subject, one teaches a student how to learn it. Teaching may… — Jacques Barzun
To realize that our knowledge is ignorance, This is a noble insight. To regard our ignorance as knowledge, This is mental sickness. Only when we… — Laozi
O sancta simplicitas! What strange simplification and falsification mankind lives on! One can never cease to marvel once one has acquired eyes for this marvel!… — Friedrich Nietzsche
When people do not ignore what they should ignore, but ignore what they should not ignore, this is known as ignorance. — Zhuangzi
I seek the truth...it is only persistence in self-delusion and ignorance that does harm. — Marcus Aurelius
Just remember, without discipline, a clear strategy, and a concise plan, the speculator will fall into all the emotional pitfalls of the market - jump… — Jesse Lauriston Livermore
For I say this is death and the sole death,- When a man's loss comes to him from his gain, Darkness from light, from knowledge… — Robert Browning
I love to thik of my little children whom God has called to himself as away at school-at the best school in the universe, under… — Jacques-Benigne Bossuet
More than once I've had discussions with persons who say things based on a misunderstanding. 'Oh you Catholics worship images.' No we don't, 'yes you… — John Corapi
We discover in the gospels a groundwork of vulgar ignorance, of things impossible, of superstition, fanaticism and fabrication . — Thomas Jefferson
... I am not afraid of priests. They have tried upon me all their various batteries of pious whining, hypocritical canting, lying and slandering. I… — Thomas Jefferson
The affections are the children of ignorance; when the horizon of our experience expands, and models multiply, love and admiration imperceptibly vanish. — Benjamin Disraeli
We may think of peace as the absence of war, that if the great powers would reduce their weapons arsenals, we could have peace. But… — Nhat Hanh
The greater the scientist, the more he is impressed with his ignorance of reality, and the more he realizes that his laws and labels, descriptions… — Alan Watts
Say to yourself in the early morning: I shall meet today ungrateful, violent, treacherous, envious, uncharitable men. All of these things have come upon them… — Marcus Aurelius
Very often pessimistic people speak against their own desire. They want to undertake some work, and they say, 'I will do this, but I don't… — Hazrat Inayat Khan
All ignorance is the lack of love. — Hazrat Inayat Khan
Despite popular theories, I believe people fall in love based not on good looks or fate but on knowledge. Either they are amazed by something… — Elizabeth McCracken
The right to a quality education is, I believe, the perfect path to bridge the gap between different cultures and to reconcile various civilizations. Without… — Mozah bint Nasser Al Missned
Our ignorance of the cosmos is too vast to commit to atheism, and yet we know too much to commit to a particular religion. A… — David Eagleman

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